Example sentences of "not [verb] to term [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Becker 's surprising defeat by Spain 's Jordi Burillo in Barcelona last week suggests the former Wimbledon and world champion has still not come to terms with playing on the European clay , which predominates to the end of the French Open in early June . |
| 2 | But he could not come to terms with the climate . |
| 3 | ‘ Part of the problem is that I can not come to terms with my image . |
| 4 | I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be . |
| 5 | John of Anagni threatened to lay an interdict on France if Philip did not come to terms with Henry , but Philip was unmoved and observed that the legate 's money bags were obviously full of English silver . |
| 6 | For the moment , however , we should recognise that the concern to strengthen intra-party democracy through constitutional reforms designed to hold the Parliamentary Labour Party accountable to the rank and file may do little to ensure that any future Labour Government delivers of its manifesto ( and possibly socialist ) promises since these reforms do not come to terms with power , the state , and the market . |
| 7 | While encouraging westernized intelligentsias , he did not come to terms with their nationalisms , whether he was lecturing in South Africa ( 1949 ) , advising on local government in Tanganyika ( 1950 ) , observing the Seretse Khama [ q.v. ] affair in Bechuanaland ( 1951 ) , or surveying the possibilities for a Central African Federation ( 1952 ) . |
| 8 | They just can not come to terms with the death of the Lancashire coalfield . |
| 9 | And yet we have n't come to terms with that . |
| 10 | At that time she had n't come to terms with them , ’ he recalls . |
| 11 | ‘ Over two packs a day , very foolish for a diabetic , but she had n't come to terms with the illness at that stage , and was quite defiant about a number of things , Professor Rankin tells me . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My guess is that she had n't come to terms with the situation herself , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I have n't come to terms with the bloke I killed yet , but when I do , it will be frightening . |
| 14 | And an expert on the case believes she still has n't come to terms with what she 's done . |
| 15 | I was n't coming to terms with it and did n't know what to do . |
| 16 | What Morrissey still ca n't come to terms with is that now , for some strange reason , hordes of people profess to have fallen in love with him and previous to the band , he often states , no girl ever even took him into consideration . |
| 17 | but erm , have erm problems with what this lady has described who ca n't come to terms with |
| 18 | While Britain got used to Wilson , the Americans did n't come to terms with the post-Kennedy era . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're just crotchety because you enjoyed my kissing you and you ca n't come to terms with it , ’ he said mildly . |
| 20 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 21 | ca n't come to terms with it |