Example sentences of "[pron] are at the mercy " in BNC.

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1	Acquire a free spirit : You are at the mercy of check-in staff , late passengers and air-traffic control .
2	A stock of ‘ standard ’ components will not help when an unusual item is ‘ out of stock ’ , and with these you just have to accept that you are at the mercy of the suppliers .
3	The moral to be drawn from this sad episode is : ‘ Do n't put your money into any business you can not understand , and where you are at the mercy of the advice given by others , however trustworthy . ’
4	‘ I wish it were true that the fund will continue to grow , but we are at the mercy of the markets , and we must keep a healthy capital amount for all needy old soldiers down on their luck .
5	As often we are at the mercy of his laconic whim : why is it that no trust is involved ?
6	We have some patterns of expectation available to us , indeed , but we are at the mercy of the poet for which of those patterns may lie ahead of us .
7	Making the means of production into private property leads to exploitation , for if people have no access to the means of production they are at the mercy of those who do .
8	With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling .
9	With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling .
10	Without the anchor of personal conviction they are at the mercy of every ebb and flow of opinion .
11	And most single people and er most young people in particular , fall outside that definition and that means that they really have no access to council housing of any kind and er they also find it very hard to get into the private rented sector , because of er the fact that 's it 's er , the rents are so high , and , and therefore they are at the mercy of erm basically the well , well loosely what one could describe as the bad landlords , the sharks , who will er exploit their situation .

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