Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [noun] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite such claims , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that in both the USA and the UK , the audio-visual movement rarely came to grips with the need for an elaborated theory going beyond the use of audio-visual materials as decorative additions to the traditional lesson . |
| 2 | She did n't mean to , but she finally came to terms with the lateness of the hour with a yawn ; it was already happening before she could stop it . |
| 3 | However , the parents of 12-year-old victim Tim Parry — hanging on to life by a thread in a Liverpool hospital yesterday came to terms with the fact that he is unlikely to survive . |
| 4 | So it was that the companies gradually came to terms with the increasing traffic and provided it with a further impetus . |
| 5 | It never really got to grips with the issues of childhood , innocence and learning about sexuality . |
| 6 | In the years that I have had to research my Bombing Years lectures I realise now that we never really got to grips with the German defences until the latter stages of the war . |
| 7 | The biggest shortcoming of the Dobry Report , however , was that it never really came to grips with the major weakness of the development control system : its general isolation from the remainder of the planning process . |
| 8 | They now began to side with the extreme wing of the pied noir integrationist movement , which openly called for his overthrow . |
| 9 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 10 | His successor but one , Wallia , made an attempt to lead his people across to Africa , but failed , and instead came to terms with the Roman leader Constantius , for whom he campaigned against the Vandals and Alans in Spain . |
| 11 | Last season Neath never came to terms with the loss of Rowland Phillips and Mark Jones to rugby league , and this season they have done no better in this regard ; the back row , once the fulcrum of the entire Neath effort , has no longer been an area of strength . |
| 12 | They never came to terms with the speed of Dalian Atkinson ; neither did Dean Saunders . |