Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] not cope [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If even Alison Kraemer 's perfect manners could not cope with the news , then our marriage must be an intolerable scandal . |
| 2 | With a sinking knowledge of the inevitable , Manville accepted the fact that one spare wheel and a set of spanners would not cope with three slashed tires and a shattered windshield . |
| 3 | The smaller family units can not cope with grandparents either in terms of money or space . |
| 4 | 3 After a few minutes , the mind can not cope with the speed , and one partner usually finishes up tangled in a knot . |
| 5 | While the computer is an obvious tool for handling and organizing large quantities of data in the hyper-medium , straight-forward procedural methods can not cope with the complexity of the organization . |
| 6 | Administratively , the College can not cope with more than one Gaudy per year . |
| 7 | Sometimes girls are there because they are very young or they are homeless , sometimes it is because their parents can not cope at home with the responsibility for them and a newborn baby , and in other cases a home takes in and assesses girls whose ability to look after their baby is in question . |
| 8 | If those lines can not cope during the rush hour at present , how will they cope with double the traffic ? |
| 9 | Seminaries can not cope with the number of young men wanting to enter . |
| 10 | Lennie knew about George 's craving for freedom and often threatened to leave , but George felt obliged to look after Lennie as Lennie could not fend for himself in a cave and Lennie could not cope with going to jail or a home to be treated like an animal . |
| 11 | It stated clearly that a flat rate charge could not cope with the scale of local authority expenditure and that it could not do so fairly . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the smaller coffin-maker could not cope with the high-powered advertising of IPC and Dottridge Brothers , preferring to place miniature versions of their handiwork in the shop window for the benefit of passers-by , though they probably relied on the funeral furnishing warehouses for the supply of linings and coffin furniture . |
| 13 | At this stage , the infant can not cope with the contradiction implied by the fact that two opposing feelings are aroused by the same object . |
| 14 | The majority of people who have difficulty coming to terms with the death of a pet can not cope with the fact that the pet is actually dead . |
| 15 | That is a good cheap way to sell PCs , but many dealers can not cope with bigger , more complex machines . |
| 16 | The other principle , bigger cylinders , was less successful , mainly because existing phonographs could not cope with it . |
| 17 | It is thought that the UK could not cope with the increase in price and non-price competition which the SEM would bring about . |
| 18 | The N H S can not cope in the moment with you know , regular sort of cervical cancer smears . |
| 19 | Structural models of hemisphere specialisation which posit that perceptual asymmetries arise because the brain structures that deal with a particular class of stimuli are lateralised exclusively or predominantly to one hemisphere rather than the other can not cope with this variability . |
| 20 | Atrophied muscles can not cope with artificial legs , so patients first have to strengthen them with ‘ stump wrestling ’ competitions . |
| 21 | Consequently , if the first dog dies , the second dog can not cope with life on its own , and all sorts of problems may arise . |
| 22 | At school , more than half ( 54pc ) said they had been bullied and 45pc thought their teachers could not cope with the bullies . |
| 23 | One secretary could not cope with the work . |
| 24 | Formal logic can not cope with even so simple a contradiction , though we live with such conflicts as matters of course . |
| 25 | Hospital may not cope with area 's growing population : councillor |
| 26 | The group outlined its fears that the Ulster Hospital can not cope with the growing population within the North Down and Ards areas . |
| 27 | And he explores the tensions between two generations of Africans : the younger French-speaking union organizers find they have to take responsibilities in the strange new world that their elders can not cope with . |
| 28 | And it brought home to her the fact that some children can not cope with maths , however hard they try — a realisation she may well be glad of when she fulfils her ambitions to become a fully-fledged teacher . |
| 29 | This was due to the impossibility of conveying such goods between the two cities at a time when the railways could not cope with grain supplies coming into Saratov . |
| 30 | He argued that such a philosophical position could not cope with the phenomena of dreams and especially hypnosis . |