Example sentences of "to adapt [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If the population as a whole fails to adapt under pressure , the species will be wiped out by a rival . |
| 2 | The artist Jacqueline Black has led a career that shows , perhaps more radically than many , the necessity and capacity to adapt in order to raise a family and work as a professional artist . |
| 3 | However , since access to lexical items appears to be at least partly an automatic process in which words are accessed as a result of unplanned factors ( such as prior mention by the present speaker or an earlier speaker ) , it seems plausible to suggest that the production system should be able to adapt in order to incorporate automatically accessed lexical items into current constituents . |
| 4 | Yet the highest of them all , Elbrus , has a route that would be accessible to many a mountaineer with only one of two alpine seasons behind him ; a route that demands no real technical expertise , but an ability to adapt to altitude , and a fair degree of stamina . |
| 5 | Old , compressed cultures such as this can be notably cohesive and resilient , but they can find it increasingly difficult to adapt to radical , as distinct from incremental , changes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some of us find it hard to adapt to country life . |
| 8 | Helping children to adapt to school life by adopting a sensitive admissions policy . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | With the ex-Callie , they took longer to adapt to nationalization I think , than the rest of the railway . |
| 11 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 12 | Delegates and speakers alike expressed concern about the West 's readiness and ability to adapt to life in a ‘ computer culture ’ . |
| 13 | He had been unable to adapt to life at the school , she said . |
| 14 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 15 | Intensive pre-operative teaching and preparation will help prepare Mr Reynolds for the process of learning how to adapt to life with a stoma . |
| 16 | The Treuhandanstalt would guarantee creditors against losing money lent to businesses unsuccessfully attempting to adapt to unification . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The oesophagus is of major interest in the biological study of the alimentary tract in that the epithelial cells have a remarkable ability to adapt to chemical and mechanical injury . |
| 19 | to be flexible in design and use in order to meet new demands for information from within and without the Polytechnic , to adapt to growth and structural change ( within both courses and the institution ) , and to answer effectively any ad hoc enquiry ( this flexibility is also required by the method of project management described below ) ; |
| 20 | The projections build in the ability of farmers to adapt to climate change by changing crops and farming methods . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The MOH has changed policies to adapt to donor demands and foreign NGOs now control many districts . |
| 24 | 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 . ' ’ |
| 25 | Four out of every five currently leave school with no qualifications , making it all the more difficult for them to adapt to adult life . |
| 26 | He was like a chameleon , she thought with wry admiration , able to adapt at will to any situation . |