Example sentences of "[prep] coping with the " in BNC.

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1 Charles enjoyed the time he spent with his wife and children , but the events of the last four years had been no less momentous for him , and his way of coping with the stress and tensions in his life had always been by testing himself physically .
2 So the shore-line creatures adopt several different strategies for survival ; and animals from very different phyla — notably coelenterates , molluscs , crustaceans , and echinoderms — have found ( various ) ways of coping with the intertidal zones .
3 The NCT has been asked to help with a trial of treatment designed to show what is the best way of coping with the possible problems of inverted nipples for the breastfeeding mother .
4 The idea that the only way of coping with the desuetude of the age , its profound certainty that everything has been said already , is by openly proclaiming this fact as itself the new fact , the idea that the only way of selling your article as original is to declare that it is repro , seems to run up against an ethical objection in a writer like Palandri , however sophisticated his own literary apparatus undoubtedly is .
5 Coming to terms mentally and emotionally with such change in an elderly relative is as much part of coping with the situation as providing the practical care that they need .
6 Receptive to the idea of ‘ doing something ’ about North Sea oil and its likely consequences for Orkney , of coping with the practical problems of planning applications , of conducting the old County Council and the new Orkney Islands Council along businesslike lines , and conscious of the growing body of government planning legislation , they accepted the idea of planned zones .
7 The Money Advice Funding Working Party under the chairmanship of Lord Ezra agreed that existing services were not capable of coping with the demand for advice .
8 Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality .
9 This sense of coping with the ‘ business of living ’ was one of the themes that came out from a study conducted by the writer and a colleague from the Tavistock Institute for a client in 1974 ( see Appendix One ) .
10 The creation of Job Clubs for redundant members is providing a most valuable lifeline to help them to solve the problem of coping with the trauma and making a constructive approach in the search for employment .
11 and where necessary to find alternative ways of coping with the tasks of life .
12 Those who tend to retaliate need to work on ways of coping with the way their immediate strong feelings cause them to behave .
13 And if you 're going to use your stove in chilly conditions , you 'll need to pick a model which uses a fuel capable of coping with the cold .
14 The Archdeacon was capable of coping with the press , the Bishop , the police and the Parochial Church Council .
15 These doctors have given up the notion of being specialists and of being involved in hospital medicine but the idea of coping with the medical problem is still a potent force in their ideologies .
16 The career of paranoid psychotic attracts him , particularly as a way of coping with the inevitable consequence of his defiant style of living the criminal life .
17 Their search for the order of Nature still reflected a ‘ modernized ’ version of the traditional belief that Nature expresses harmonious relationships transcending the everyday problem of coping with the environment .
18 Each branch was developing its own way of coping with the environment , and progress in one direction could not be evaluated by comparison with any other .
19 It could easily be nothing more than my way of coping with the consequences of a senseless accident .
20 Although that sort of thing is nominally catered for by most electrical equipment , using spike suppression and smoothing circuitry , I reckoned that this particular computer was not up to the job of coping with the dirty mains , and so an uninterruptible power source was thought to be the only feasible answer .
21 Diverse ways of coping with the stress caused by illness will be identified and any links with self-esteem investigated .
22 It is his own mind 's way of coping with the grief , and he knows it .
23 One way of coping with the dilemma of too much or too little bottom-up acoustic information is to use broad , and hopefully robust representation primitives initially to access a number of word hypotheses bottom-up and subsequently use a word verifier for more accurate matching and rating of the hypotheses against the input .
24 Commercial attachés were not a complete answer to the problem of coping with the increasing volume and importance of economic diplomacy .
25 As a way of coping with the pain the couple have moved house , but each room remains a shrine to their youngest son .
26 The pressures of coping with the Local Management of Schools , the introduction of the National Curriculum and the resulting assessment made ‘ Quality ’ an interesting concept that could be debated , or conveniently forgotton , at some future date .
27 He outlines a plan for coping with the conflicts that often arise in the family during the teenage years .
28 It has been easier in the past to give in to the child 's demands , so learning to set limits across all aspects of the child 's behaviour can be critical for coping with the battles about food .
29 Early experience in exploring the environment at home should precede this , and will not only be stimulating as an activity in its own right but a helpful and positive preparation for coping with the wider and more varied situation of school .
30 Drugs and hypnosis were all very well as tools for coping with the hormonal storms caused by the superhuman organs his body housed ; but what he must attain swiftly was a superhuman mind which could command the body to fight on irrespective of injury .
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