Example sentences of "[conj] come to [noun] [prep] " 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 Sylvie he had failed to help or to come to terms with . |
| 3 | The necessity of a penetrating aufarbeitung der Geschichte , or coming to terms with the past , is nowhere on the young democracies ' agendas . |
| 4 | Or coming to consciousness in the coffin , tons of silent earth pressing down , his own lungs sucking away the last of the air . |
| 5 | Others were diffident , unable to cope or come to terms with their sexuality . |
| 6 | It was unable , however , to foresee or come to grips with what Habermas in Legitimation Crisis calls the rationality or planning crisis ( Arato and Gebhardt 1978 : xviii-xx ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 12 | What he does seem to mind — and what even the most arbitrary-seeming , the most ludic , of his ironic and erotic diversions and excursions show that he minds — is the regime that came to power in his native country after the revolution of 1948 . |
| 13 | And not content with an immensely complicated system of direct taxation , the Conservative government that came to power in 1970 gave us value added tax — heralded at the time as ‘ a simple tax ’ . |
| 14 | She threw herself off the bed and hauled the first outfit that came to hand from the wardrobe . |
| 15 | " The flower girl " ( Pygmalion ) was the first book that came to mind for one very elderly survivor . " |
| 16 | However , for people with children , making a will means a lot more than coming to terms with you-know-what . |
| 17 | ‘ Aye , well , folks that come to Wickrithe for their holidays should be used to it , ’ Gran said . |
| 18 | This afforded the opportunity for him both to become familiar with other music , and to come to grips with concerto movement forms unhampered by the need to create the thematic and harmonic material as well . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At this time Miller was acting in an advisory capacity , as recorded in the Memoranda Book of John , Fourth Duke of Bedford ( Woburn Mss HMC 62 , extract above ) : ‘ March 13 1740/1 agreed with Mr. Miller to pay him Twenty Guineas a year for inspecting my Gardens hot houses , pruning the trees , etc. and to come to Woburn at least twice a year and oftner if wanted , to be paid at Lady Day yearly . ’ |
| 25 | The Dharjees went from Iran to Bombay in the seventeenth century and came to Wimbledon in 1926 , mainly to get away from Bombay but also , apparently , for the tennis . ’ |
| 26 | MARCUS DALY-FERRIERA , 27 , is a Royal Engineers corporal and came to pentathlon through the Army Triathlon in 1987 . |
| 27 | And then you see I gave up my home in Liverpool and came to Anglesey to my people . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 30 | Making up yardage charts started in America in the late 1950s , took off in the 1960s and came to Britain in the 1970s . |