Example sentences of "coping with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although that sort of thing is nominally catered for by most electrical equipment , using spike suppression and smoothing circuitry , I reckoned that this particular computer was not up to the job of coping with the dirty mains , and so an uninterruptible power source was thought to be the only feasible answer . |
| 2 | Perhaps a solution for the JTO 's that are finding difficulty in coping with the current situation would be for those of them that have both hard and grass courts at their club to run a two tier event , i.e. a Series tournament on the hard courts coupled with age group doubles and mixed on the grass . |
| 3 | Given this apparent potential it is interesting to see how the various manufacturers are coping with the current market expansion . |
| 4 | The new signalling system , known as automatic train protection , will be the biggest single item of expenditure arising from the crash , and is aimed at coping with the conflicting demands of high-density commuter trains and faster InterCity traffic on the same lines . |
| 5 | All the additional effort to repair wind damage , and coping with the extra demands of old buildings in poor weather , did n't help to relieve the pressures , especially as some of the boys had been rather overexcited and badly behaved . |
| 6 | Facilities at the workhouse for treating the sick and coping with the elderly were gradually expanded . |
| 7 | Early experience in exploring the environment at home should precede this , and will not only be stimulating as an activity in its own right but a helpful and positive preparation for coping with the wider and more varied situation of school . |
| 8 | An important consideration at a general election is the success or failure of the government in power in coping with the economic situation . |
| 9 | Commercial attachés were not a complete answer to the problem of coping with the increasing volume and importance of economic diplomacy . |
| 10 | He had , still , many contacts in this field and it was yet another approach to coping with the surplus capacity produced by the Carno factory . |
| 11 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities the mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |
| 12 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities their mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |
| 13 | The NCT has been asked to help with a trial of treatment designed to show what is the best way of coping with the possible problems of inverted nipples for the breastfeeding mother . |
| 14 | Receptive to the idea of ‘ doing something ’ about North Sea oil and its likely consequences for Orkney , of coping with the practical problems of planning applications , of conducting the old County Council and the new Orkney Islands Council along businesslike lines , and conscious of the growing body of government planning legislation , they accepted the idea of planned zones . |
| 15 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 16 | World View : The virtues of old history : Lawrence Freedman argues that the key to coping with the future lies in past events |
| 17 | That the four lead artists got on so well with each other was a distinct advantage in coping with the pressurised working schedules they were expected to maintain over the next year . |
| 18 | Pam Legate reports on how hoteliers are coping with the new EC Package Directive |
| 19 | The Limavady father of five outwardly appears to be coping with the savage death of 24-year-old Ruth , but the emotional scars remain painfully close to the surface . |
| 20 | For almost the first decade of its existence , the resources of the Modular Course were entirely absorbed by coping with the first-order problems of survival and growth . |
| 21 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 22 | There was a murder two nights ago in a clunch pit at Muddington — that Jacket is in exhibit and she 'll want to get on with that Is well as coping with the usual heavy load . " |
| 23 | Caterers also face other difficulties , such as keeping food hot and coping with the long travelling distances between the kitchens and wards . |
| 24 | ‘ She means , ’ the other twin chimed in , ‘ you are going to stay with us until Mummy and Daddy come out of the hos-hospital ? ’ she asked , finding difficulty in coping with the long word . |
| 25 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 26 | Although she felt she had settled down a lot since her last release from prison , she was still having difficulties coping with the day-to-day strain and isolation of being a single parent . |
| 27 | These doctors have given up the notion of being specialists and of being involved in hospital medicine but the idea of coping with the medical problem is still a potent force in their ideologies . |
| 28 | Like Pynchon , he has admitted an influence from Kerouac and the Beats , and , in his 1973 article ‘ The New Tradition ’ , Sukenick places himself within a late phase of the modernists ' ‘ Revolution of the Word ’ where verbal and structural experimentation were aimed at coping with the enigmatic nature of the world ( Federman 1975 : 42 ) . |
| 29 | The career of paranoid psychotic attracts him , particularly as a way of coping with the inevitable consequence of his defiant style of living the criminal life . |
| 30 | Not only is she busy sending out subscription forms to the existing 220 members , she is also coping with the dozens of enquiries from amateurs all over the world looking to turn professional . |