Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun pl] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lautro has ordered 13 life assurance companies to withdraw some of their advertising for single premium with profits bonds , and two were requested to write to clients with a fuller explanation of the bond 's characteristics . |
| 2 | When she was sixteen , in the age of Gucci shoes and Lambrettas , and being taken by her father on birthday treats to his favourite trattoria in the King 's Road ( white lavatory tiles and low-slung lights , waiters singing ‘ O Sole Mio ’ and her father embarrassingly ordering due cannelloni per favore and molto formaggio for my daughter' ) , Molly was conscious of becoming attracted to men with a lot of black hair round the bracelets of their wrist-watches . |
| 3 | The changing context of educational management requires schools to adopt proactive staff management strategies in order to come to terms with a range of complex issues : |
| 4 | Small powers seek also to come to terms with a particular great power either to guarantee themselves against the overwhelming strength of another great power or in order to prevent the great power in question from asserting its strength more directly and imperiously over them … |
| 5 | On the contrary , the federation or confederation of states , whether for the purpose of pursuing common goals , ensuring common defence from a foreign power or in order to come to terms with a powerful neighbour , is as old as the federation of the city states of ancient Greece . |
| 6 | They have to come to terms with a loss of freedom , a loss of the chase . |
| 7 | The Catholic community , especially in the Northern part of the diocese was undergoing , as indeed was the whole area , a gradual process of change , having to come to terms with a broader view of Church and society which sat rather uncomfortably with long held views . |
| 8 | The 50-year-old actress is struggling to come to terms with a series of disasters that have brought her life crashing round her . |
| 9 | The psychologist justified his own persuasive efforts with this belief that he was actually helping the parents to come to terms with a decision ‘ they really want to make ’ . |
| 10 | The inter-war period was one in which the distribution of population began to come to terms with a range of structural economic and social changes . |
| 11 | If Nietzsche was to come to terms with a specialized academic career , his need of a compensatory allegiance was extreme . |
| 12 | Charitably , you might say they represent the struggle of a generation to come to terms with a responsibility and authority they would once have rejected . |
| 13 | They have n't started packing their suitcases yet , but they fear it may be inevitable and they 'll have to come to terms with a completely new existence . |
| 14 | Eldorado ( BBC1 , 7pm ) : Ingrid has to come to terms with a matter of life and death , while Marcus does the dirty on Alex . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ All hell rules over the man who is angry , ’ says the Talmud , and by September 1939 , when Leonard was beginning to come to terms with the thresholds of life 's reality , hell was ruling the world , or at least appeared to be . |
| 17 | If its post cold-war generation is not to be continually confused by unexpected developments then they will need to come to terms with the dynamics of change . |
| 18 | Your boyfriend is finding it hard to come to terms with the prospect of fatherhood and is taking his resentment out on you . |
| 19 | The hope that the BBC or ITV would move into this job as they would for Commonwealth or Olympic Games was never realistic but it has taken Sheffield a long time to come to terms with the fact . |
| 20 | ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . ) |
| 21 | Despite an increase of 8.5% in the public subsidy for national museums in 1991–92 , most are still struggling to come to terms with the squeeze imposed on their budgets by the Treasury over the past few years . |
| 22 | In it she recounts trying to come to terms with the fact that two of her four sons had been born with severe abnormalities . |
| 23 | Among the forward-looking theologians who were trying to come to terms with the new scientific data was the Dean of St Paul 's , Canon H.L. Mansel , who gave the Bampton Lectures in 1858 . |
| 24 | Much has been written about training shoes over the last couple of years , as the style magazines and the newspapers have tried to come to terms with the massive increase in the popularity of the trainer . |
| 25 | Farmers have to come to terms with the market and look upon wholesalers and retailers as allies , not enemies . |
| 26 | It helped fourth-century Christians to come to terms with the paradox that the privileged , wealthy , and powerful post-Constantinian church actually was also the church of the martyrs . |
| 27 | An Italian proof-reader and old Party-member , nicknamed the Professore , tries to come to terms with the apparent bankruptcy of his own system of beliefs . |
| 28 | He was still struggling to come to terms with the disappointment of missing the ride on Cool Ground . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In many instances , the mother of the child will wish to keep the child , but the father is unable to come to terms with the handicap , and the family is split up . |