Example sentences of "could have coped [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Orrell , though , may feel that they could have coped with Cusworth after causing one of last season 's League upsets by winning 27-15 at Welford Road .
2 The gearbox selected neutral as Patrese went through a quick left-hander , a problem which he could have coped with had the mechanism not decided to offer him , without warning , second gear half-way through .
3 For most of his career after discovering the similia principle , he was inundated with more patients than the average practitioner could have coped with .
4 It was no longer just that she did not like birds or could not bear to touch them — she could have coped with that , as it would not have intruded greatly on her everyday life .
5 I could have coped with his anger , using mine , but not his pain .
6 They had n't let him go home for nearly a week ; there was no way he could have coped with his freedom or his family .
7 Indeed it is difficult to envisage how the adjustable peg system could have coped with the scale of this problem , whereas the system of floating exchange rates did .
8 The Newry ground has already been inspected by representatives of the National Safety Council and although the extended terracing could have coped with upwards on 17,000 , it has been decided in the interests of spectators ' comforts to make 14,000 tickets available .
9 The company also stressed that no drainage system could have coped with the amount of rain caused by such a ‘ freak ’ storm .
10 I think because I was so inexperienced in the sixties , er I do n't think I could have coped with doing two things .
11 I do not know how I could have coped without you and your friends here . ’
12 It is doubtful that any other army could have coped without resorting to massive retaliations .
13 James , a Macaulay Culkin lookalike , was n't at all sure that he could have coped on his own in New York .
14 I enjoyed my life with them and I do n't think I could have coped in the beginning without them .
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