Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] to come to [noun] with " in BNC.

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1 They 've had to come to terms with rumours .
2 It tends to make life a bit dull at work and we 've tried to come to terms with that .
3 I 've managed to come to terms with it all .
4 ‘ It is something I have had to come to terms with because in the past couple of years I have had to fly hundreds of times .
5 But Gordillo and his contemporaries have had to come to terms with it the hard way , following directly in its path .
6 They have had to come to terms with computer print-outs , data sheets , the use of electronic equipment , and biological sampling techniques .
7 What in their different ways a , a , an Eliot , a Kafka or a Beckett — what they have had to come to terms with his the death of a tenacious pervasive yet curiously imprecise myth that somehow writing was different , that the masters of the past could in some way overcome this limitedness , that writing carried its own justification .
8 ‘ Forest have got to come to terms with the position they are in and dig in .
9 His many biographers have attempted to come to terms with his prodigious output of educational , religious and political texts and his scientific publications spanning nearly 40 years .
10 Much has been written about training shoes over the last couple of years , as the style magazines and the newspapers have tried to come to terms with the massive increase in the popularity of the trainer .
11 While orthodox Marxist — Leninism of the Comintern period offered no serious accounts of liberal democratic practices and institutions , neo-Marxists have tried to come to terms with phenomena which classical Marxists did not anticipate , especially the advent of some form of mixed economy and the growth of an extended welfare state in every advanced capitalist society .
12 There is a real element of truth in it if we conclude , as I think we must , that in those who have failed to come to terms with the demands of a civilized existence any representative of that existence can be seen as an incitement to protest , especially if , as in the case of the police , that representative has only too obvious a. resemblance to the forbidding father of early childhood with whom the individual has not come to terms because of chronic irresolution of the Oedipal dilemma .
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