Example sentences of "[pers pn] be 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 | ‘ You 're at the mercy of some pilot and God knows what state they 're in , ’ he added . |
| 5 | He says you 're at the mercy of the elements and you just go where the weather takes you . |
| 6 | And you 're at the mercy of the landlord putting the rent up Brenda . |
| 7 | Like you say you 're at the mercy . |
| 8 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | As often we are at the mercy of his laconic whim : why is it that no trust is involved ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 14 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 15 | Without the anchor of personal conviction they are at the mercy of every ebb and flow of opinion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But of course it 's , it 's a very tough deal for women , I mean women in erm in a way really get the raw end of it because that to some extent they 're at the mercy of the whole system , even though they can if they absolutely have to . |
| 18 | The situation that , that a lot of people find themselves in nowadays , now er council housing is no longer available to an awful lot of people , is that they 're at the mercy of private landlords , and in order to have any kind of home they have to go along this sort of conditions and rent levels laid down by private landlords . |
| 19 | Theoretically , every person was subject to the whim of the sultan , which in practice meant they were at the mercy of his capricious subordinates . |
| 20 | Since the State virtually abdicated all responsibility for their welfare , they were at the mercy of their masters . |
| 21 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 22 | Moreover , although their constitutional and political position depended on their new relationship to " the people " they were not instructed delegates of their constituents any more than they were at the mercy of the party whips in the Commons . |
| 23 | ROS : He 's at the mercy of the elements . |
| 24 | He was at the mercy of crack-brained adults just the same as they were with crazy Sylvester . |