Example sentences of "to cope with the " in BNC.

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1 Uganda is a developing country with neither the wealth nor the health service infrastructure to cope with the problem adequately .
2 Depth of shade is also important , since a number of species , while enjoying the limited sunlight filtered through trees with an open branch system , are unable to cope with the dense shade cast by evergreens .
3 One or two short climbs in cloud do not prove the ability of a pilot to cope with the required longer periods of concentration and more varied conditions in larger clouds .
4 It may be advisable to speak to your local pharmacist who is professionally qualified to offer advice on how to cope with the symptoms of flu .
5 Bag work is essential to learn how to cope with the often heavy recoil effect produced by this kick .
6 Yet new approaches to treatment of incontinence , for example , mean that many people can learn to cope with the problem ; learning about how to communicate with deaf people can reduce the isolation of someone who has withdrawn from social contact because of hearing loss ; and modern drugs and careful monitoring by a general practitioner can reduce the effects of Parkinson 's Disease .
7 The net effect was the end of the Class 25 and 27 , and a remarkable stack of over thirty asbestos-contaminated loco bodies piled high in Vic Berry 's Leicester scrapyard as he struggled to cope with the influx .
8 The first indications of the new 1979 Conservative Government 's attitude to investment became apparent when BR sought approval to build an additional seven HST sets to cope with the first flush of growth following the launch of 125mph services on the East Coast main line the previous year .
9 It is a matter of history that as the 1980s drew to a close , a few extra HSTs to cope with the unprecedented levels of business by now on offer would have been very welcome .
10 How to cope with the separate issues of the economic recession , the need for major investment such as the electrification of the East Coast main line and identification of those parts of the network or services which needed direct government subsidy , was the overriding concern of the BR Board at that was the problem .
11 They have recognised that the laws to protect our environment need to be extended and revised to cope with the situation genetic engineering presents .
12 Peking officials now seek to excuse the June atrocities by claiming — all too credibly — that they had neither the resources nor the expertise to cope with the escalating civil disorder culminating in the Tiananmen Square assault .
13 It was a turbulent time for college principals , and many were unable to cope with the urgent demands for change which constantly assailed them — not least from their own undergraduates .
14 Metrocast already needs frequency-agile paging to cope with the fragmented US market , and this is now being extended for British businessmen who travel to the States .
15 These quotations hint at a number of important dimensions to policing in Northern Ireland : that policemen and women in the RUC have common-sense conceptualizations of their role , with some defining it in terms of community service ; that they have sets of standardized guide-lines , what Schutz ( 1967 ) calls ‘ recipes ’ , appropriate for the situations they handle ; that they make , and try to maintain , a distinction between work and leisure ; and that they employ various distancing strategies to cope with the demands of their job .
16 This lesson had been reinforced as far as the railways were concerned each spring from 1918 to 1920 , when urgent orders went out from the highest level to rehabilitate them in order to cope with the influx of vital foodstuffs and fuel to the towns .
17 But the task was increasingly beyond them , as social surveys showed the inability of the welfare services to cope with the specific needs of the aged , the disabled , and one-parent families .
18 The British forthwith addressed themselves to attempting to cope with the axiom nearer home .
19 Among the propertied , private separations were much more common than judicial separations and , according to Stone , represent a ‘ remarkable example of how an officially non-divorcing society can devise its own quasi-legal instruments to cope with the fact of irremediable marital breakdowns ’ ( p. 182 ) .
20 The latter is primary ; the emergence , or at least acceleration , of the former a consequence of measures adopted by newly confident conservative states to cope with the re-entry of the world system into a succession of capitalist crises after the exhaustion of the Long Boom .
21 Moreover , it had acquired the suspension and tyres to cope with the jumbo output generated by its turbocharged 6.7-litre V8 — in excess of 320bhp and 400lb ft of tree-toppling torque .
22 It was a brilliant display of this team 's ability to cope with the difficulties imposed by introducing a new chassis and engine .
23 Some of the latest equipment is designed to use automation to cope with the combined problems of filtration and misuse of equipment by staff .
24 They have settled down , sorted out their personal problems , adjusted their lives to accommodate each other , found a way to cope with the pressure and emerged with a very strong successful partnership .
25 He has taught her how to handle state occasions , how to deal with foreign potentates , when to speak and when not to , how to manage tiring tours and how to cope with the strains of travel .
26 The people there not only had to cope with the incidents themselves but living down the bad reputation .
27 Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered .
28 Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion .
29 The Emergency Bed Service has issued a yellow warning to hospitals in the North-East and South-East Thames Regional Health Authorities in the hope of releasing sufficient beds to cope with the outbreak .
30 The Emergency Bed Service has issued a yellow warning to hospitals in the North-East and South-East Thames Regional Health Authorities in the hope of releasing sufficient beds to cope with the outbreak .
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