Example sentences of "[noun] come to terms [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still believed , or at any rate hoped , that the refugees would in due course come to terms with their situation and accept resettlement . |
| 2 | Fear was there , certainly , and also an inability to come to terms with what had happened , but there was something more . |
| 3 | Whether it is the timidly smiling cleric having tea , the piously confident student talking about the way in which Jesus warms up his or her heart , or the aggressively confident know-all trying to recall the country to ‘ civilisation ’ , it is a similar picture of inability to come to terms with the way in which most people in Western societies live . |
| 4 | This can also happen when a doctor experiences discomfort in the face of death , or an inability to come to terms with his own helplessness . |
| 5 | Here , Joanna , her mother and father John tell Penny Wark of their struggle to come to terms with tragedy . |
| 6 | A moving and painfully honest account of a mother 's struggle to come to terms with the death of her baby . |
| 7 | Throughout 1990 the opposition JLP showed signs of serious internal dissension centred upon Seaga 's allegedly " autocratic " style of leadership , but also symptomatic of the JLP 's struggle to come to terms with its defeat in the 1989 general election and its poor performance in the March 1990 municipal elections . |
| 8 | This 28-day programme should have given you the opportunity to come to terms with your body . |
| 9 | Christian orthodoxies , he was making dogged attempts to come to terms with his sado-masochistic tendencies . |
| 10 | Furthermore , he made real attempts to come to terms with the Emperor , and it seemed likely that the papal imperial conflict would now be resolved . |
| 11 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 12 | RACE HATE , rape fear , miscegenation , a battle-scarred outsider 's fight to come to terms with the new society — the themes of Ford 's massively influential movie would provide rich pickings for '70s brats in the years to come . |
| 13 | We see this in the increasing influence of the new Ecology Movement , in the power of the Gaia theory , in the efforts of established religions to come to terms with their part in dealing with these issues ; and much more humbly , but much more universally , we see it in the increased attention that so many of us are now paying to the ways we celebrate the beauty and diversity of life on Earth . |
| 14 | Under its unique regime , prisoners are given the chance through therapy to come to terms with their crimes , and hopefully start a new life . |
| 15 | Men as well as women in British public relations today owe her a debt of gratitude for her contribution in helping British industry come to terms with public relations as a formidable management and marketing tool . |
| 16 | One way of perceiving this progression is as the struggle of the poet to come to terms with the nature of creativity , drawing on all that he sees in the imagery of lines 12–22 until the attainment of maturity in the ‘ momently ’ of line 24 , when he reaches a state of oneness with his environment and is free to channel its flow into works of art . |
| 17 | Sweeney Agonistes , as much as the later prose of Arnold , is an attempt to come to terms with this situation and to react against it . |
| 18 | Alex giggled deep down in his stomach and his arms and legs met like a soft anemone over her hand in an attempt to come to terms with it . |
| 19 | The first two can be seen as being derived from history , both shared and private , while the third is an attempt to come to terms with and respond to current realities as they are being experienced . |
| 20 | In a further attempt to come to terms with it , a number of social theorists have concentrated on exactly the sort of counterfactual analysis that we found used , but not discussed , by Poulantzas . |
| 21 | There was no attempt to come to terms with the central issue of wage determination : an issue commented upon at the time but one whose importance was to become far clearer in hindsight to politicians and economists alike [ Meade , 1982 ] . |
| 22 | In the sonnets involving the Dark Lady , however , with their tortuous triangular structure , the reader does stand apart , watching the poet 's attempt to come to terms with deception and exclusion : |
| 23 | But neither Shakespeare 's tragedies nor life itself can be fully understood unless we are prepared to take Iago fully into our consciousness , and make our own attempt to come to terms with what Shakespeare created . |
| 24 | In T. R. Fyvel 's The Insecure Offenders , which first appeared in 1961 and which represented the most systematic and unsensationalised attempt to come to terms with the youth problem , the argument pivoted upon the assumption that the impact of ‘ affluence ’ had conspired to produce a novel disorientation among the nation 's youth . |
| 25 | What follows is my personal attempt to come to terms with these problems . |
| 26 | At the time of the first interviews in June 1990 the authorities were grappling with the devolution of services to the units and the district 's attempt to come to terms with the new role of purchaser . |
| 27 | As JFK was white America 's attempt to come to terms with its violent history so Malcolm X tries to do the same for a black martyr . |
| 28 | Following her death , which country did Jonathan go to with Terry in an attempt to come to terms with her death , and who did he meet there ? ( 2 points ) . |
| 29 | The need to prepare schools and help to help schools prepare themselves for the erm review of the national curriculum the changes that they will have to deal with and in particular I think , erm to help secondary schools to come to terms with changes in key stage four and the likely erm opportunities there will be for a more diverse curriculum including eventually er the opportunities for more vocational programmes in schools and to assist schools |
| 30 | At the end of April 1916 , he is reputed to have expressed to General Gallwitz his readiness to come to terms with France , and even to hand back Metz . |