Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] to cope [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONTINGENCY plans to cope with a serious accident to a nuclear weapon being taken over the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow are flawed , councillors heard yesterday . |
| 2 | They were given immensely long platforms , like their military counterparts , some of the longest in the world , and huge circulation areas to cope with the great press of travellers at significant pilgrimage periods . |
| 3 | There was virtually no constituency organisation to cope with a major campaign — it had not been needed for three decades ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A clear symbol of the growth of a banking system was the establishment in 1773 of the London Clearing House to cope with the huge increase in inter-bank payments . |
| 6 | During the Gulf War Dr. Winfield was required to establish a forward field hospital to cope with an expected flood of casualties which , happily , did not materialise . |
| 7 | ‘ Climatic geomorphology attempts to cope with the excessive complexity of natural parameters by holding variables such as structure , lithology and man constant . |
| 8 | Amongst other things , the consultants recommended the adoption of a housing policy to cope with the increasing number of planning applications for private houses which were then coming from recently-arrived oil-workers and newly-prosperous Orcadians , as well as the likelihood of even more applications in the future . |
| 9 | The market mechanism linking city and countryside began to break down , and was further disrupted by the inability of the railway system to cope with the exceptional wartime demands made upon it . |
| 10 | ‘ OUP has spent considerably more than £100,000 adapting its computer system to cope with the new requirements . |
| 11 | Their presence in totally inadequate police accommodation is authorised by the Prisons ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1980 , a statute passed as an emergency measure to cope with an industrial dispute with prison officers and used almost continuously ever since . |
| 12 | And while the Führer and his army could claim the glory for military successes , the increased — and often voluntary — efforts of members of Party affiliates to cope with the social problems of individuals or groups particularly affected by the war tended to bring contact with disgruntled ‘ people 's comrades ’ but few plaudits and little prestige . |
| 13 | Merrydown has bumped up production facilities to cope with the expected demand . |