Example sentences of "came to term " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |
| 2 | What happened in 1548 was that the ruling party came to terms with France , in order to find quick relief for only one of their difficulties . |
| 3 | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. , 1972 ) she tells of her first meeting with the composer , of his influence on her technique and interpretation , of how she came to terms with the music , of Plante and other virtuosi , and gives a detailed analysis of various pieces . |
| 4 | It is the only gadget I have ever bought which actually got pushed under the settee where it gathered dust for several years before I really came to terms with it . |
| 5 | Georg Schwafenberger 's book The Legality of Nuclear Weapons ( 1958 , pp. 47–9 ) reached conclusions which came to terms more with the by then widespread possession of nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | Last season Neath never came to terms with the loss of Rowland Phillips and Mark Jones to rugby league , and this season they have done no better in this regard ; the back row , once the fulcrum of the entire Neath effort , has no longer been an area of strength . |
| 7 | This explains why British industry , which had never conceived of employing professional consultants to recruit and select executives and managers , came to terms psychologically with the idea of using headhunters . |
| 8 | When Michael saw the happy faces on Christmas Day , the food that seemed inexhaustible and the merriment his gifts had brought , he finally came to terms with himself . |
| 9 | It was only some years later , when the over-expansion he had forecast had materialised , and some of the more obscurantist leaders of the industry had been replaced by new men , that the industry came to terms with the problem ( see pp. 212–17 , below ) . |
| 10 | He was potentially a useful ally and one with whom Edward needed to keep on good terms , if only because of his claim to the French throne ; but he proved unreliable and the expedition to Normandy was aborted when he suddenly came to terms with John II . |
| 11 | In 1371 , Charles V and Charles of Navarre came to terms . |
| 12 | 75 What neither the men nor the resisting women ever came to terms with was the completely new skill represented by monotyping . |
| 13 | Most came to terms with the constraints of the existing order but a radical wing refused to do so and dreamed of a society run on rational lines laid down by acknowledged experts ( themselves ) — a society they dubbed ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 14 | We talked a little more , while Terry and Tom prepared themselves for the inevitable angry reaction from the guards and Brian lay down under an extra blanket as his body came to terms with the shock of the beating . |
| 15 | She did n't mean to , but she finally came to terms with the lateness of the hour with a yawn ; it was already happening before she could stop it . |
| 16 | In 694 the people of Kent came to terms with Ine by which a payment of 30,000 pence , signifying approximately 7,200 shillings and the value of an aetheling 's life , was made to the western Saxons in compensation for the burning of Mul ( ASC A , s.a. 694 ) . |
| 17 | What is remarkable about this story is how the mother finally found peace and came to terms with her daughter 's life as well as her death . |
| 18 | It emerged that he was not a match for her strength , ability and intelligence and , in time , she came to terms with the reality that she was better off without him . |
| 19 | But I came to terms with all that because the house has so much going for it in other ways . |
| 20 | For its part , the Conservative Party , under the intellectual leadership of R. A. Butler , came to terms with the changes wrought by Labour from 1945–51 and adjusted to the new mood in the country so that it grudged towards state intervention in support of some kind of equality . |
| 21 | She came to terms with the computerized till , which often she had to deal with . |
| 22 | So it was that the companies gradually came to terms with the increasing traffic and provided it with a further impetus . |
| 23 | He never came to terms with losing her , or the fact that people he 'd trusted cheated him . ’ |
| 24 | My grandmother paid for it — she never really came to terms with Mum 's moving abroad , and I think that was her way of making sure I never lost the other half of my inheritance . ’ |
| 25 | His successor but one , Wallia , made an attempt to lead his people across to Africa , but failed , and instead came to terms with the Roman leader Constantius , for whom he campaigned against the Vandals and Alans in Spain . |
| 26 | There he came to terms with Clovis and became tributary to him . |
| 27 | Eventually I came to terms with doing what I call a ‘ sequence of interesting things ’ . |
| 28 | I came to terms with that long before the accident . |
| 29 | They never came to terms with the speed of Dalian Atkinson ; neither did Dean Saunders . |
| 30 | For days after the killing , Cpl Edward 's closest colleagues felt a strong resentment towards the locals as they came to terms with losing a popular member of the platoon . |