Example sentences of "to adapt to [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm and I wonder if our traditions have disappeared because we have had to adapt to working lives and changes in lives , and I wonder if men have held onto theirs in the face of women being a threat to them in working environments and other aspects of their life . |
| 2 | Some of us find it hard to adapt to country life . |
| 3 | Helping children to adapt to school life by adopting a sensitive admissions policy . |
| 4 | The manager at both secondary- and primary-school level , would , when that development is complete , find it possible to adapt to school use recommendations about the wholesale management and regearing of both policy and practice which is needed in FE in order to create a comprehensive setting for the introduction of new vocational qualifications ( Haffenden and Brown 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Prison reformers have been slow to adapt to prison realities , and to accept that they must address the wider canvas of the criminal justice process . |
| 6 | The projections build in the ability of farmers to adapt to climate change by changing crops and farming methods . |
| 7 | Native species which are currently concentrated within isolated protected sites — such as nature reserves and sites of special scientific interest — will become increasingly inbred and unable to adapt to climate change through evolution . |
| 8 | Even if companies do not export their goods or services to other Member States , they will have to adapt to Community legislation , which will alter national law in virtually every area of economic activity ranging from standards , labelling , advertising , product liability , to domestic intellectual property and company law . |
| 9 | The MOH has changed policies to adapt to donor demands and foreign NGOs now control many districts . |
| 10 | In such a ‘ residential precinct ’ or ‘ Woonerf ’ , wheeled traffic would have to adapt to pedestrian behaviour : as Grotenhuis put it ‘ all traffic participants in a woonerf are considered equal , and … the pedestrian is a bit more equal than the others . ' ’ |
| 11 | Four out of every five currently leave school with no qualifications , making it all the more difficult for them to adapt to adult life . |