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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coping strategy
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Therapists can show a child new coping strategies.
cope with an emergency (= succeed in dealing with an emergency )
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Do you think that you could cope with an emergency?
cope with demand (= satisfy demand )
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The existing services were not capable of coping with the demand for advice.
cope with/deal with stress
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People find different ways of dealing with stress.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
well
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They coped well with steady rain making me question the need for overtrousers in milder seasons.
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Do they cope well with stress?
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At a sensible pace, however, it copes well enough.
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Collaborative schools coped well with change, balancing it with the preservation of continuity, especially of values.
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She coped well with the peculiar pressures of being only an honorary man in a male world.
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Usually she could cope well enough.
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The public sector, after years of commercialisation, is not coping well .
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Quite sparky, she copes well under pressure, but it is not unknown for her to lose her temper.
■ NOUN
ability
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An extravagant signal could be a general statement of a male's ability to cope .
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Meanwhile doubts about the private banks' ability to cope caused mounting worries.
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Yet, as Margaret Donaldson points out, the ability to cope with disembedded tasks is crucial to educational success.
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Services should also aim to enhance the individual's own ability to cope with distress.
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As a result she was renowned for her ability to cope patiently with awkward guests.
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Coral species vary in their ability to cope with sediment.
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It was a combination that destroyed his ability to cope with life, and he sought psychiatric help in 1950.
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It's not only riding skills that count when considering a holiday, but the ability to cope in unfamiliar surroundings.
capacity
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Moreover, the large city or freight terminals had to have massive capacity to cope with intense seasonal pressures.
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One important feature of such factors is that they will tend to shape the person's capacity to cope with adverse circumstances.
change
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Planning also helps to produce a mechanism for coping with change and focuses attention and effort on key issues.
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We are coping with this change and that, but failing to enhance our capacity to manage change in general.
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Collaborative schools coped well with change , balancing it with the preservation of continuity, especially of values.
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To cope with these massive changes , entrepreneurial governments have begun to transform themselves.
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Whatever the fortunes of the major political parties, it is likely that managers will be coping with rapid change .
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Is the management of your venue adaptable enough to cope with changes in your programme or its timing?
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Central to our research are questions such as: how do design firms cope with strategic change ?
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How do you cope with change ?
child
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There's concern that schools may not realise what help is needed because the children seem to be coping in the classroom.
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Certainly, all children must develop coping and survival skills.
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At what age cam children cope with these conventions?
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It is these which, above all, give the children their ability to cope with a large repertoire.
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However, welcoming children and coping with them are quite separate qualities.
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And what's more, much can be done now to assist the child to cope with this.
demand
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In a year of recession, Land Rover is taking on more staff and increasing production to cope with the worldwide demand .
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In addition to their own emotional turmoil, parents must cope with the demands and expectations of those around them.
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There are few specialist clinics and those that do exist can not cope with the demand .
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My wife would need all the virtues in the world to cope with the demands of my life.
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If they have the resources and the foresight to cope with demand , you won't notice.
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However, the so-called Street v Mountford test fails to cope with the demands placed upon it by its own social context.
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The cinema even had a special computer installed to cope with the demand for bookings.
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Theodora wondered whether it was a room which could cope with the demands of the modern world.
difficulty
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For example, communes have difficulty in coping with adolescent children.
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He noted that several accidents appeared to highlight pilots' difficulties in coping with increasing flight-deck automation.
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The theory also has difficulty in coping with colour perception when a particular object may come in a number of colours.
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This much is perhaps to be expected from some one who faced insurmountable difficulties in coping with the work.
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Her brain was still having a great deal of difficulty coping with what her eyes were telling her.
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Her husband was described as having difficulty coping with her.
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Parents are seen as responsible for any difficulties in coping with their children.
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In that case you will have fewer rather than more difficulties with which to cope .
family
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The smaller family units can not cope with grandparents either in terms of money or space.
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The way the Steputis family coped by normalizing their life surely went a long way toward helping Hank maintain his personal integrity.
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A family attempts to cope with the eruption into their lives of an unruly aunt.
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All of these groups focus on helping family members cope when they have an alcoholic family member.
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How have your family coped with you heading off on these sometimes very dangerous expeditions?
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Mrs Jones' family say she's coping remarkably well, but they're horrified at her injuries.
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Could your family cope financially if you died unexpectedly?
illness
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Now Peter's family can get on with looking after him and coping with his illness without worrying about losing their home.
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Relatives have to cope with mental illness that so often changes the personality of their loved one.
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Health professionals, particularly doctors, find particular difficulty in coping with a disabling illness in adult life.
inability
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I do believe it wasn't just inability to cope with a terrible handicap.
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This indicates that drinking is often a response to an inability to cope with the many losses of old age.
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This was happening more and more, this inability to cope , this giving in to raw emotion whenever he was alone.
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It now made open confession of its inability to cope alone with the crisis initiated by Perry's arrival.
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But he demanded high standards and as a classical scholar was exasperated by my inability to cope with Latin.
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In such cases, illness can leave not only a physical inability to cope , but an emotional fear of doing so.
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There are many people who suffer due to lack of affordable housing to rent and inability to cope with mortgage repayments.
life
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These are difficult days for students ... financial worries and job uncertainty, as well as coping with life alone.
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His father, my ex-husband, was chronically depressed, just had a real bad time coping with life .
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They can't cope with real life and kill themselves.
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The way the Steputis family coped by normalizing their life surely went a long way toward helping Hank maintain his personal integrity.
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All three of them were adults now, supposedly able to cope with the crises life flung at them.
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Most often, the kids tell Nelson they need the cigarettes to cope with life .
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It was a combination that destroyed his ability to cope with life , and he sought psychiatric help in 1950.
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I couldn't cope with his life , that's what it was.
pressure
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Fiona Explains how she coped with pressure and David explains how everyone supported each other.
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There are also several studies being made of how otters are coping with the pressures that we are imposing on them.
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Moreover, the large city or freight terminals had to have massive capacity to cope with intense seasonal pressures .
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Quite sparky, she copes well under pressure , but it is not unknown for her to lose her temper.
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In particular it could not cope with the pressure of a growing population.
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If you use cigarettes to help you cope with pressure or to stay slim, you are probably particularly dependent on nicotine.
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But it is easier to cope with these pressures if we go back to first principles.
problem
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The main problem is coping with the aggression.
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Commercial attachés were not a complete answer to the problem of coping with the increasing volume and importance of economic diplomacy.
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Teenagers may begin to take drugs to help them escape from adolescent problems they can't cope with.
situation
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Fortunately her upbringing had given her the social training to cope with these situations .
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The managers were learning how to cope with situations beyond their control, a foundation for their future career.
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If you look at people who cope successfully with difficult situations , they often automatically think ahead and anticipate the circumstances.
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I am the person in the front who has to cope with whatever situation comes up.
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Fear can provide the adrenaline to cope with a new situation or emergency.
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Shouting to Wemyss to cope with this situation , Douglas wasted no time.
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The insurrection soon became so general that the government with its meager military forces could not cope with the situation .
stress
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Anxious clients can be taught to cope with stress .
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To survive, they learned to cope with the stresses associated with negative feedback and emotions.
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The problem is, how do you cope with stress ?
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Do they cope well with stress ?
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But coping with stress seems to be a dawdle for McBride.
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Some hospitals have programs to help their employees cope with the stress .
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Diverse ways of coping with the stress caused by illness will be identified and any links with self-esteem investigated.
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An early, major order of business was learning to cope with the stresses and intense emotions of becoming a manager.
system
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In heavy rain, the system can't cope and it floods.
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Early drilled crops have a greater and earlier nutrient demand and their root systems can cope better, he said.
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Could your system cope with warm food after what you've been used to?
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The concrete structure should be sufficiently dense to limit water ingress to ensure that the system can cope .
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Such overwintering vats should be as simple as possible: externally filtered zeolite somewhere in the system to cope with ammonia.
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Darlington council has a sophisticated computer system to cope with the poll tax process.
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I doubt if the schools system could cope with another overhaul to undo all the harm done.
way
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The best way to cope with such an enemy, he says, is to understand it.
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As we have discussed, Louisa favored an escape pattern as a way to cope with her problems.
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But government intervention is not the only way to cope with the problem of socially inefficient resource allocation due to externalities.
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And they will shape the way we cope with the future.
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In this final session Margaret was encouraged to explore possible ways of coping at times of further crises.
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Or he may surprise you with a novel way to cope .
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There are ways of coping with all these five kinds of events.
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It is his own mind's way of coping with the grief, and he knows it.
ways
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In this final session Margaret was encouraged to explore possible ways of coping at times of further crises.
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Your goal is to understand these natural tendencies and use your understanding to help her find better ways to cope .
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There are ways of coping with all these five kinds of events.
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There are two ways of coping with this disparity.
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Diverse ways of coping with the stress caused by illness will be identified and any links with self-esteem investigated.
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Time was also spent exploring the consequences of the overdose and finding alternative ways of coping with similar problems in the future.
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Throughout his year in Downing Street, Lord Home brooded on ways of coping more successfully with the pressures on government.
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But it does recognize the need for the educators to find ways of helping them cope .
■ VERB
design
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Because most submersible pumps are not designed to cope with solids.
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In 1928 a new Churchgate was designed , mainly to cope with suburban traffic.
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To be truly effective a system needs to be designed to cope with a wide range of inputs.
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Central to our research are questions such as: how do design firms cope with strategic change?
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Luminescence chambers are designed to cope with this and are tested up to specified voltages with metal targets as samples.
enable
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The pattern recognition technique enables the computer to cope with a certain amount of operator error, minor misspellings make no difference.
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The object of the decision is to arrive at responses which enable individuals to cope more adequately with their situation.
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Similarly, banks make merchandise loans to enable customers to cope with seasonal imports especially where bulk purchases might ensure considerable discounts.
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Their descendants are full of genes that enable them to cope with several antibiotics at once.
feel
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Drugs often make people feel they're coping , when they're really not coping at all.
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Though very sympathetic and sensitive to the needs of the birth family most adopters did not feel they could cope with contact.
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It was agreed that he might return to work from the hospital when he felt better able to cope .
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During the day he felt able to cope with any development, however disconcerting.
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Alternatively, it may be the strategy with which teachers feel most able to cope with the wide range of pupil attainment.
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You sound very depressed to me, and it's probably this that's making you feel unable to cope .
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The last thing she felt like coping with was a confrontation.
find
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They also find it hard to cope with men who are angry with them.
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Your goal is to understand these natural tendencies and use your understanding to help her find better ways to cope .
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And I've found it harder to cope with in the last two or three years.
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And most people I know find it easier to cope when they do not believe they are emotionally sick.
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One of the biggest problems Merena faced was finding tyres capable of coping with that speed for that length of time.
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The patient is chilly and irritable and finds it difficult to cope .
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Eileen wouldn't have found her easy to cope with.
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Home helps said they were finding it difficult to cope with the extra responsibility.
help
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The reporters have developed a morgue humour to help them to cope .
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Researchers have found that people rely upon their experience to help them understand and cope with new or stressful situations.
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It's based on the technology that was developed to help astronauts cope with weightlessness.
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Some hospitals have programs to help their employees cope with the stress.
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The fact is that you may need something to help you cope , sleep and carry on with your life.
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The therapist can provide structured behavioral, cognitive, or affective skills training to help clients successfully cope with these concerns.
learn
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It's now a question of learning to cope , and trying to get over everything.
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Above all, how would I learn to cope with the sub continental stare?
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Over the millennia, cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with environmental vicissitudes.
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The market dictated the price, and Salomon Brothers' traders learned to cope .
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Hector spent the winter learning how to cope with his blindness.
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The managers were learning how to cope with situations beyond their control, a foundation for their future career.
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George takes time to learn to cope with Lennie and matures a lot through the experience.
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Students may study how famous people learned to cope with and benefit from failure.
need
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The crossed poles structure gives the stability you need to cope with high winds, together with a good space to weight ration.
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Most often, the kids tell Nelson they need the cigarettes to cope with life.
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How many secure fields will be needed to cope with such a rotation?
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Babcock countered that the plant's operators had all the information that they needed to cope with the crisis.
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Secondly, the staff on the ward will themselves need assistance in coping with their own feelings about the tragedy.
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The highest professional standards are needed to cope with the complexity of issues.
seem
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At first it seemed impossible to cope with two employers with their contrasting attitudes towards money.
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He seemed to be coping better than I during these endless days.
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But the effort to combat her own sensual response seemed too much to cope with - slipping away far beyond her reach.
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She couldn't cope with it; couldn't seem to cope with anything any more.
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There's concern that schools may not realise what help is needed because the children seem to be coping in the classroom.
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In emotional terms, the boy in the television series seemed to cope admirably.
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Thank you for looking after on those really black days when even he seemed too much to cope with.
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At times, he seemed to have to cope single-handedly with everything that came from the Opposition.
struggle
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Everywhere you look there are operations cancelled, old people's homes closed down, and schools struggling to cope .
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The Turnbulls struggled to cope , whilst those in need from another country are given the red carpet treatment.
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As teams of temps struggled to cope with the mounting chaos, Jackson tried to keep the Equal Opportunities flame burning.
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Hospital staff struggled to cope with the numbers of casualties.
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Farmers are struggling to cope with an invasion of slugs.
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Three wards were packed, with two and three patients sharing some beds as doctors struggled to cope .
try
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People try to cope on their own.
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The child feels anxious and unsafe as she tries to cope with her parents' unpredictability.
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For the relief workers, trying to cope is an overwhelming ordeal.
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But it is fun for me to look up from my Sunday paper and watch them try to cope .
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That is a problem with which my right hon. and learned Friend is trying to cope .
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Several ministers of finance tried their hand at coping with the foreign and internal debt problem.
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At present many sheltered housing schemes are trying to cope with severe difficulties in relation to dementing tenants.
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As mentioned previously, the organization had been in a schizoid state in trying to cope with uncertainty in the marketplace.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's doing an experiment to see how frogs cope in a gravity-free environment.
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It's a tough job but I'm sure he'll cope .
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People who cope successfully with difficult situations usually look ahead and anticipate the circumstances.
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The automatic sorting machines cannot always cope with colored envelopes.
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The family is coping as best as possible following the mother's disappearance.
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The kids were very young and it was difficult to cope financially.
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When I got back from holiday, I had an enormous backlog of work to cope with.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Foster parents were not always equipped to cope with the vagaries of their own children, let alone the problems of outsiders.
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In this final session Margaret was encouraged to explore possible ways of coping at times of further crises.
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Officials from one country told Ellena that its citizens had enough stress coping with high unemployment and other transition ills.
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Organizational environments are always uncertain, so departments that can cope effectively with uncertainty can increase their power within the organization.
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She may feel cautious about exploring certain themes in her pretend play such as coping with aggression.
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Some feel they are unable to cope and the child is taken into care with a view to fostering.
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These machines usually cope with two or three different sizes of pipe.