Example sentences of "coming to terms " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a 1988 Police Foundation Conference ‘ Coming to Terms with Policing ’ ( ed . |
| 2 | For those who do not have much real competence in other languages , there is the possibility of coming to terms with poems in the older , more remote forms of English . |
| 3 | Coming to terms with the idea that Sophie is different , Belinda finds making comparisons with so-called normal children increasingly meaningless : ‘ There is nothing abnormal about Sophie . |
| 4 | In coming to terms with both he wished to pass beyond them . |
| 5 | He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast . |
| 6 | For all that The Mouse on the Moon ( 1963 ) is a slight film , its satirical swipes at the unprogressive nature of British institutions and the nation 's difficulty in coming to terms with its global insignificance do find their target . |
| 7 | Shocked is coming to terms with her loss her own way . |
| 8 | She had never come to terms with her old life , but , inch by inch , she was coming to terms with this one : her first reality . |
| 9 | In the mid-nineteenth century life expectation was rising , especially for the new middle class , and central and regional authorities were coming to terms with the urban influx , which had changed the face of Britain . |
| 10 | The SD agency in Würzburg even reported criticism of the fanaticism shown by Hitler and Göring which dispelled any hope of coming to terms with the enemy and meant the continuation on all sides of the ‘ war of annihilation ’ . |
| 11 | I am often asked to lead seminars on a topic which has been chosen for me and has a ti tie like ‘ coming to terms with our own mortality ’ . |
| 12 | More than once this has been printed on the programme as ‘ coming to terms with your own immortality ’ . |
| 13 | But there is a sense in which a rehearsal is the process of coming to terms with a great resistance . |
| 14 | Mr Kinnock was coming to terms with his disappointment at his Ealing , London , home yesterday where he threw a barbecue party for family and close friends . |
| 15 | They played out with sincerity the traumas of a couple going through rigorous assessment for adoptive parenthood , and of a single father , widowed and with a prison conviction , coming to terms with the loss of his children . |
| 16 | It may represent humanity coming to terms with a godless world . |
| 17 | The other is coming to terms with a more liberal society where dissent and public protest are no longer automatically met with assault and arrest . |
| 18 | Consenting in one 's heart is not a performative consent but a psychological state akin to coming to terms with . |
| 19 | Is this obsessive watching of trains sliding in and out of stations to be construed , in the child , as a substitute for sex and , in the adult , as a desire to prolong childhood indefinitely and avoid coming to terms with mature sexuality ? |
| 20 | The public and the teenage press were , in fact , already coming to terms with the punks , but these skins knew that no one could accept their brand of deliberate , mindless , gang violence . |
| 21 | Good to see Black and white women coming to terms with our ‘ difference ’ ; but most importantly our one overriding similarity . |
| 22 | Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations . |
| 23 | Some of it is about coming to terms with reality . |
| 24 | Sometimes metformin is added to sulphonylurea therapy , usually because the patient is having difficulty coming to terms with the prospect of insulin . |
| 25 | In the '80s Scottish football was confronted with the monumental task of coming to terms with a new financial era . |
| 26 | The patient will also require supportive therapy , and his family is likely to need considerable help in understanding the illness and coming to terms with it . |
| 27 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 28 | Doctors and nurses tend to keep each other at arm 's length ; no wonder the RCN had trouble coming to terms with the status of nurses who seemed to be engaged in the same work as doctors . |
| 29 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |
| 30 | Coming to terms with stress |