Example sentences of "to adapt to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is argued in this book that in many areas of the world where environmental fragility is an outstanding characteristic , there is a failure to adapt to a variety of new and related pressures , particularly population pressure and increased state intervention which is often extractive in nature , and also that such technically state-sponsored innovations that there are , tend to be inappropriate or inaccessible . |
| 2 | The most famous teaming up of the two brothers was in 1973 , with the chart single Frankenstein , a testimony to Johnny 's ability to adapt to a variety of different styles , an ability , in fact , which he insists was born out of necessity … |
| 3 | And some carers and dependents find it difficult to adapt to a role reversal — the old person of course not wanting to relinquish her dominant role and the carer finding it difficult to cope with becoming the decision maker . ’ |
| 4 | Clientelism is a strategy used by capitalists and workers to adapt to a situation where there is limited mobility . |
| 5 | We may efface the intellect in our teaching or in our practice , but we can not escape the uneasy conscience of a good mind trying to adapt to a bid faith . |
| 6 | What appears of particular concern is that the increase in ultraviolet radiation coincides with the time when ocean surface organisms are emerging from the dark winter period and thus have had no time to adapt to the sun , let alone enhanced levels of damaging UV-B radiation . |
| 7 | What about learning how to change things for the better rather than merely learning to adapt to the way things are now ? |
| 8 | However , the dependent wife receives only 60 per cent of the single person 's pension — a fact that reflects not only the dependent status of married women but also the failure of the social security system to adapt to the increase in economic activity ( particularly in part-time jobs ) among women since the Beveridge scheme was introduced . |
| 9 | It was reportedly built from the ground up using a concept called Modifiability-by-Design to bend to the way businesses are actually run rather than forcing the user to adapt to the software . |
| 10 | But he 's worked hard to adapt to the pace of things in England and because of that , his skill has suffered a bit . |
| 11 | The true success of the American skiing industry has been to adapt to the ageing of its customers . |
| 12 | It is a commonplace that computers have the potential to revolutionise the way we communicate ; perhaps less commonplace , because less obvious , that because our starting-point is our existing methods and practices , we can be very slow to adapt to the computer 's potential and find radically new ways of working . |
| 13 | The main impression he gives is of entrepreneurial acumen and ability to adapt to the culture of whichever time zone he flies into . |
| 14 | The first heroes in the battle to adapt to the damage are the referees at all levels who have sat down amongst themselves , worked out interpretations , decided what to ignore in the letter of the law ; and because the superior team can no longer launch sustained driving to sap the opposition , you find that inferior teams are still fresh as daisies at the end . |
| 15 | To some extent this made the definition of quality easier to adapt to the process of management planning . |
| 16 | Teachers have had to adapt to the need to allow their pupils this kind of responsibility and self-propulsion , and for those who have been accustomed to telling their pupils in detail how to defeat the examiners on the fateful day , this has been a great change . |
| 17 | In the long term , the future of British pacifism lay in its capacity to adapt to the demise of the world order from which , often unconsciously , its most fundamental assumptions were derived . |
| 18 | Luke Rittner , secretary general of the Arts Council , said inflation had outstripped grant aid by 6 per cent , and ‘ a failure by government to recognise this situation will be a cruel slap in the face to an arts world that has done so much to adapt to the market economy of the 1980s ’ . |
| 19 | Such rigidities can be observed in organizations and institutions as well as whole cultures : the small , traditional engineering or textile firm which fails to adapt to the market and goes out of business ; the political party caught between renewal and betrayal ; the institution so deeply set in its ways that it is hardly aware of them . |
| 20 | After three or four years concentrated study , you may feel like recharging the batteries before having to adapt to the routine of a full-time career . |
| 21 | In this issue , Ruby Johnston tells us of the experience of a group of nurses in Ireland who have had to adapt to the challenge of this new way of working with communities . |
| 22 | If they have been used to rushing home from work or watching the clock during any stolen time with friends , they may find it hard to adapt to the fact that there is no longer any need to hurry back . |
| 23 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |
| 24 | Oh yeah , we 'd have to adapt to the situation we find ourselves with |