Example sentences of "[prep] [be] at the mercy " in BNC.
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| 1 | A system of retention ratios at least gives exporters part of the benefits due to them , since they are assured of most of their import needs , and can sell any surplus foreign exchange on the black market to other enterprises , who also benefit by being able to obtain foreign exchange at a price instead of being at the mercy of administrative decisions by bureaucrats . |
| 2 | Most action was bound to be like this — a span , long or short , in which one did nothing — could do nothing except be at the mercy of one 's nerves — and then the moment , the test … |
| 3 | The women 's race looks set for the second successive year to be at the mercy of Rosa Mota , a winner at Olympic and world level as well as the three times European champion . |
| 4 | The Genoese city of Famagusta did not intend to be at the mercy of Mamelukes . |
| 5 | He was to be at the mercy of both and early on he knew it . |
| 6 | The range of oriental rugs on offer in a dealer 's showroom or department store is overwhelming , and you may feel yourself to be at the mercy of the salesman . |
| 7 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 8 | The prosperity of the Catalan economy had thus come to be at the mercy of events outside Spain . |
| 9 | To be accurate , ‘ private press ’ should be applied only to a press where the owner 's or operator 's chief objective is to print a fine book , without being at the mercy of a publisher 's instructions and a first necessity to show a profit , even though he may sell his wares through commercial channels . |