Example sentences of "[noun pl] to cope [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family attempts to cope with the eruption into their lives of an unruly aunt . |
| 2 | From Woolworths , we will hear that the Dixons management have brought their troubles on themselves , that their attempts to cope with the downturn have been lamentable and that only a new team — with a more analytical approach than the pile-it-high philosophy which did Dixons so proud when times were good — can engineer the necessary closure of small high street outlets in favour of a move to larger ones on the edge of town . |
| 3 | Plastic Padding has a number of easy-to-use adhesive fillers to cope with the repair of most materials . |
| 4 | They may also be short on the reading skills and note-taking skills to cope with the volume of information they are now required to process . |
| 5 | 350 car workers have had their contracts extended by a further six months to cope with the demand for the Maestro and Montego cars . |
| 6 | Making arrangements for the engineering investigators to cope with the jet age posed much less difficulty . |
| 7 | Most people are just given pain-killers to cope with the condition . |
| 8 | Shanti 's mother loved her very dearly , and had tried for nearly two years to cope with the situation where she , as an Indian , had a baby with an African father . |
| 9 | The Emergency Bed Service has issued a yellow warning to hospitals in the North-East and South-East Thames Regional Health Authorities in the hope of releasing sufficient beds to cope with the outbreak . |
| 10 | The Emergency Bed Service has issued a yellow warning to hospitals in the North-East and South-East Thames Regional Health Authorities in the hope of releasing sufficient beds to cope with the outbreak . |
| 11 | These had different intersleeve distances to cope with the range of intersphincteric distances found in this age group . |
| 12 | On April 4 President Özal announced that Turkey had admitted 100,000 Kurdish refugees , reversing its previous decision to close its borders ( which it had taken on the grounds that it had neither the infra-structure nor the resources to cope with the flood of Kurdish refugees ) . |
| 13 | She did n't have the energy or the resources to cope with the prospect of meeting so many people . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's very important for preparers of accounts to have a voice , and only the top 100 companies really have the resources to cope with the amount of time and effort that takes . |
| 15 | The growth of the social services to cope with existing social problems has necessitated the development of whole new professions to cope with the work . |
| 16 | Anselm was determined to make the clearest possible break with past practice : henceforth no priest or deacon was to be allowed , on any pretext whatsoever , to have a wife and continue to carry out his duties , and he had prepared an elaborate series of provisional arrangements to cope with the shortage of qualified priests under the new regulations . |
| 17 | The GPO in Leeds rang to say it would have to make special arrangements to cope with the volume , and delivered bulging sacks direct to the production team . |
| 18 | People may tense their bodies in a variety of ways to cope with the threat of strong feelings , but then as it were forget to relax the muscles after the immediate threat has passed . |
| 19 | It might be possible for people in such circumstances ( perhaps when redundancies have been notified some weeks in advance ) to be supported and perhaps taught techniques to cope with the anxiety and avoid being overpessimistic or ‘ catastrophising ’ ( see next section ) . |
| 20 | Most of the well-to-do had departed hurriedly , leaving the resentful lower orders to cope with the French as best they could . |
| 21 | The current levels of expenditure per student can not be maintained , and academic institutions are being forced to find other routes to cope with the demand . |
| 22 | The policy is to educate pupils to cope with the technology and give them the opportunity to exploit it in their future work and leisure . |
| 23 | But , he says , agents have also learned the lessons of recent years by adapting their sales measures to cope with the recession , identifying more closely buyers capable of meeting their financial responsibilities and building solid ‘ chains ’ to ensure successful completion of negotiations . |
| 24 | Not that all boards are n't fun — the funboard describes a group of boards which may be a little unstable during the first steps afloat , but can be used in higher winds allowing the sailor to develop techniques such as the use of footstraps to cope with the speed of sailing in strong winds . |
| 25 | There is more widespread acceptance of the use of institutions in the later stages of life in the USA , Canada and Australia , and a considerable body of literature of the ways in which social workers can assist families and their elders to cope with the experience . |
| 26 | One has to develop routines to cope with the situation because it is far too complicated a situation to be handled in any other way . |
| 27 | Among the propertied , private separations were much more common than judicial separations and , according to Stone , represent a ‘ remarkable example of how an officially non-divorcing society can devise its own quasi-legal instruments to cope with the fact of irremediable marital breakdowns ’ ( p. 182 ) . |
| 28 | A baculovirus spray ( containing viruses specific to insects ) might , for instance , reduce a population sufficiently for predators to cope with the remainder , and so make it unnecessary to apply chemicals . |
| 29 | ‘ There is some irony in the fact that helping other companies make the best use of their existing premises — by installing mezzanine floors or space-saving racking systems — has meant that we have had to move to new premises to cope with the workload , ’ said Mr. Jeary . |
| 30 | There were not enough workhouses to cope with the problem . |