Example sentences of "to cope with the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel went to a private room in the pavilion and changed into her going-away outfit , a green silk dress with a little matching bolero of thin silk to cope with the climates of both Hong Kong and Thailand . |
| 2 | Little shooting beams of light played over the scene of the sea and the crates of bananas as her lowered eyes struggled to cope with the brightness of the sun that had entered them . |
| 3 | By the age of 9 , children should be able to cope with the concept of about 1,000 years in time . |
| 4 | They are particularly unable to cope with the intimacy of marriage and , if bewildered by their spouse 's demands , may flare into violence . |
| 5 | An all America Foundation final would allow Koch to optimise his two boats , to cope with the threat of the New Zealand and Italian challengers , rather than beating Conner in the 13-race final . |
| 6 | People may tense their bodies in a variety of ways to cope with the threat of strong feelings , but then as it were forget to relax the muscles after the immediate threat has passed . |
| 7 | Union leaders have been meeting to discuss how to cope with the threat of fifteen thousand redundancies . |
| 8 | It said poorer women saw cigarettes as a ‘ necessary luxury ’ to cope with the difficulties of caring for a family on a tight budget . |
| 9 | They are said to regard cigarettes as a ‘ necessary luxury ’ to cope with the difficulties of caring for a family and managing on a low income . |
| 10 | Few organisations have to cope with the range of different inputs at national , LEA and institutional level . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , we need to consider what problems might arise and make provision accordingly , accepting that such provision should be very flexible if it is to cope with the range of need presented by the disabled . |
| 12 | These had different intersleeve distances to cope with the range of intersphincteric distances found in this age group . |
| 13 | Certainly the constraints of examinations make it more and more difficult to cope with the range of abilities in the mixed ability class . |
| 14 | Certainly the constraints of examinations make it more and more difficult to cope with the range of abilities in a mixed ability class . |
| 15 | ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’ |
| 16 | Piphros ' vocabulary was indeed limited and was unable to cope with the complexity of some of the things she had asked . |
| 17 | The highest professional standards are needed to cope with the complexity of issues . |
| 18 | They were also too crude to cope with the complexity of contemporary life in Britain . |
| 19 | This period is often thought of as a failure in British politics , of failure to cope with the rise of Hitler and Mussolini abroad and a failure to deal with unemployment at home . |
| 20 | Its replacement would still have to cope with the problem of big-spending councils ; the old rows about rate-capping and poll-tax-capping would simply be called something else . |
| 21 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 22 | Carers often find it difficult to cope with the problem of feeding the patient . |
| 23 | But some efforts were made to cope with the problem of poverty . |
| 24 | But government intervention is not the only way to cope with the problem of socially inefficient resource allocation due to externalities . |
| 25 | In general the move towards wage supplementation in the rural South and East enabled the old Poor Law just about to cope with the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of unprecedentedly high bread prices , during which some years can only be described as desperate . |
| 26 | Football has done it its best in order to cope with the problem inside the grounds . |
| 27 | A 14 year-old boy or girl , leaving school for the big world outside ( unless academically suited for college and university ) , would be well-equipped to cope with the problems of work and making a living . |
| 28 | And if we do automate , will we be able to cope with the problems of large-scale unemployment ? |
| 29 | Another factor driving women to the bottle is that more and more are having to cope with the problems of bringing up a child alone . |
| 30 | The question is whether these hallowed archaisms are only a surface phenomenon which a sensible modernization of Parliament would easily sweep away , or whether they indicate a fundamental unsuitability in the traditional kind of representative institution to cope with the problems of modern democratic government . |