Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [noun pl] [prep] 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 | It finally agreed to changes in the Data sheet in June 1982 , shortly before escalating concern among doctors forced the withdrawal of the drug altogether . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When in January 1645 the French agreed to give the Dutch representatives the coveted title of " Excellency " this at once led to demands from the imperial electors that theirs must be given it also . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So it was that the companies gradually came to terms with the increasing traffic and provided it with a further impetus . |
| 7 | Their criticisms and advice , usually relayed to teachers via the head . |
| 8 | He also referred to provisions in the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers , and to many other provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 and in the Companies Act 1985 which might conceivably have some bearing on this question . |
| 9 | I also went to classes at the local clinic but they were a low-key sort of affair . |
| 10 | It never really got to grips with the issues of childhood , innocence and learning about sexuality . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The ignorance of ordinary people sometimes led to exaggerations of the self-indulgence of the Ceauşescus after the revolution . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They never came to terms with the speed of Dalian Atkinson ; neither did Dean Saunders . |
| 17 | , Assistant Director of Education , recently wrote to schools in the Region , asking them to indicate their interest in piloting general SVQs next session . |