Example sentences of "[conj] come to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In milder manifestations , counselling in its true sense may help the individual concerned either to overcome or to come to terms with the tendency . |
| 2 | The necessity of a penetrating aufarbeitung der Geschichte , or coming to terms with the past , is nowhere on the young democracies ' agendas . |
| 3 | Or coming to consciousness in the coffin , tons of silent earth pressing down , his own lungs sucking away the last of the air . |
| 4 | When the practice begins or comes to light in the context of an existing marriage or other partnership it may be distressing for the partner . |
| 5 | It does indeed seem that the taboo on wives working was still operating among the generation that came to maturity at the time of the Great War . |
| 6 | For , after less than 20 wickets in four lean years with Derbyshire , Taylor was part of the Staffordshire team that came to Northampton in the first round of the 1990 NatWest Cup to be plundered by Allan Lamb and company for the record total of 360-2 . |
| 7 | The latest Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society resolves a question that came to light in the days of Lord Rayleigh , who showed how an idealised object called a black body radiates heat and light energy . |
| 8 | She threw herself off the bed and hauled the first outfit that came to hand from the wardrobe . |
| 9 | Zuckerman has enabled Roth to deal with the question of the offence he has given to righteous Jews , and to come to terms with the rebellious , psychedelic , philo-Semitic Sixties , when Roth 's writing went , with the times , derisive and fantastic . |
| 10 | Children want and need information in order to make some sense of their parents ' behaviour , to avoid distorted and unnecessary fears and fantasies , and to come to terms with the change in circumstances . |
| 11 | The bishop was requested to advise them maturo consilio to restrain their passions and to come to terms with the Plantagenet administration in their quarrel over attacks upon ducal officers and subjects in the vicomté of Marsan . |
| 12 | Selim was the first Turkish ruler to attempt to understand the currents of thought in western Europe and to come to terms with the contemporary world . |
| 13 | MARCUS DALY-FERRIERA , 27 , is a Royal Engineers corporal and came to pentathlon through the Army Triathlon in 1987 . |
| 14 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 15 | Making up yardage charts started in America in the late 1950s , took off in the 1960s and came to Britain in the 1970s . |
| 16 | For many older people this taboo is unhelpful and leads to difficulties , including an inability to prepare for and come to terms with the realities of old age , with physical and mental decline , and ultimately with death itself . |
| 17 | It might be possible to approach the problem from another angle : specifically to direct our attention to intentional social behaviour in relation to the outside world , to look at the ways that people cope , deal and come to terms with the non-routine , the out-of-the-ordinary , to document the character of the dynamic between the familiar world and the external processes typical of people in different groups , categories , communities and societies . |
| 18 | The circuit starts on the fourth floor and spirals downward through three sections : 1933–39 covers the repression of the Jews ; 1939–45 describes the ghettoes , deportations and mass murders ; and 1945 to the present recounts survivors ' efforts to rebuild their lives and come to terms with the ineffable tragedy . |
| 19 | They came together with pride and passion , each glorying in the belief that Hans Christian Andersen had been right and that their fairy-tale had indeed been written by the fingers of God and come to fruition in the Enchanted Garden that had captured the heart of a city . |
| 20 | From Aisgill Summit , the railway , the road and the River Eden go hand in hand down Mallerstang , forced into close company by the impending slopes , and almost at once there appears on the right the magnificent spectacle of Hellgill Force where the infant Eden , thus far known as Hell Gill Beck , leaps in a waterfall of 60 feet over a limestone cliff and comes to maturity as the River Eden . |
| 21 | He had been born in Jamaica but came to England in the 1940s to work in the steel industry . |
| 22 | Stanley kept in contention in the first half of the game but came to grief on the 11th end when they dropped a five . |
| 23 | For ma , accepting the fact that it will rain today seems as difficult as coming to terms with the amputation of a limb . |