Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] to grips [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Kicked out of Oundle before I had a chance to get to grips with the first line of the Aeneid , if you want to know the truth . |
| 2 | They had a lot to come to grips with . |
| 3 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 4 | It is not an attempt to get to grips with the fundamental problems of this society . |
| 5 | As far as examining goes , or marking essays , I assume that most of my colleagues take the sort of line that I do , that what we 're looking for is not a particular interpretation of something , but an ability to get to grips with texts , to produce an argument that 's logical , coherent , well-written and is supported from the texts . |