Example sentences of "[been] [adj] to cope [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Metcalfe and her accordion had hardly been adequate to cope with a congregation of some 200 people , so the following year a portable harmonium , played by the Stalling Busk church organist Miss E Leyland , accompanied the singing . |
| 2 | The ASH stand at the Green Show attracted a lot of other interest too , and our staff would have been unable to cope without the tremendous effort made by West Midlands ASH volunteers . |
| 3 | Bt strains have traditionally been classified by serotyping , but this system has been unable to cope with the vast number of new strains discovered recently . |
| 4 | As Brian Davis points out , the new shed was necessary , as the main mill buildings were now over a century old , and would almost certainly have been unable to cope with the additional weight and vibration from the looms . |
| 5 | As a child he had been unable to cope with the passions around him ; he had hidden himself away in books , consoling himself with golden reveries . |
| 6 | Thirteen would have been unable to cope with the elimination regimen for social reasons or because of poor understanding , eight had tight small intestinal strictures , and eight were on high dose steroids ( both of which would have made the results difficult to interpret ) , four refused , two were treated for postoperative fistulas , two were pregnant , and one was treated for extensive pyoderma gangrenosum and had no gastrointestinal symptoms . |
| 7 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 8 | She had been able to cope with the sale of her house . |
| 9 | However , it is not clear from the information presented by Burr how well he has been able to cope with the irregular morphological structure of English . |
| 10 | Only a few , such as the highly adaptable wild pigs , have been able to cope with the changed and still changing landscape . |
| 11 | Of the previous four presidents one , Johnson , had been effectively driven from office by the failure of his Vietnam policy ; one , Nixon , had resigned in disgrace and neither Ford nor Carter had been able to cope with the limits on presidential power . |
| 12 | But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work . |
| 13 | He would n't have been able to cope with the larger trunks . |