Example sentences of "[noun] to deal with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken ‘ common sense action to deal with a whirlwind ’ . |
| 2 | But the threat of the old section of the course has meant some swift action to deal with a worsening plight . |
| 3 | We reject outdated notions of national sovereignty , believing that they now stand in the way of common action to deal with the scourges of disease and hunger , the deterioration of the Earth 's environment and the continuing dangers of the post-Cold War world . |
| 4 | A number of local authorities have attempted to take more positive action to deal with the issues raised by the 1985 riots , but their experience has shown that such local initiatives are often severely limited by the actions of national government , the police , and broader economic and political pressures . |
| 5 | ASHWORTH Hospital has published its plan of action to deal with the recommendations of the public inquiry into conditions at the special hospital . |
| 6 | As a Stalinist , Nizan was doubtless reassured that prompt action to deal with the anti-Soviet activities had been taken . |
| 7 | Later it was discovered that the council had written to the club months earlier demanding action to deal with the hazard . |
| 8 | We must take action to deal with the changed situation we presently face . |
| 9 | But while this method keeps many plant-eaters at bay , there are always a few creatures who have the design capability to deal with the toxins . |
| 10 | Even walking along the quayside promises to be an unhealthy and unpleasant experience : smelly and midge-infested , though the CBDC is promising a combination of pumped aeration and chemical sprays to deal with the ‘ problems . ’ |
| 11 | More was clearly needed , for slum clearance since 1930 was regarded as both too limited in scope and too slow in practice to deal with the scale of the housing problem in the big cities . |
| 12 | ‘ It was his way of testing you out — you know , one practice to deal with the cow and the other to treat the calf . |
| 13 | A particularly good buy is the Swiss army knife , able to open anything , and equipped with gadgets to deal with every domestic crisis . |
| 14 | Steps were taken before the Report of the Civil Justice Review to deal with the problem of waiting for trial with regard to the general list cases in the Queen 's Bench . |
| 15 | But to describe the issue as one which depends on whether or not the bank must be taken to have appointed the husband as its agent to deal with the wife and to procure her consent serves , in my opinion , to mask the basis upon which in certain cases creditors have failed to enforce their security against the third parties and upon which in other cases they have succeeded . |
| 16 | It was almost a pleasure to deal with a tantrum from Weenie , and a positive relief to be sent home in a police car . |
| 17 | If they are the only witness to deal with a vital issue then you will have no alternative but to call them . |
| 18 | He spoke of ‘ a new age , in which people can come together ’ , directed his administration to deal with the reorganization of pensions , housing , the improvements to maternity homes and the reorganization of the poor law . |
| 19 | Instead of tackling the causes of urban unrest , the Government has built up force to deal with the manifestation of those root conditions . |
| 20 | Russia is appealing for Western aid to deal with the problem . |
| 21 | Here at least is an honourable attempt to deal with a serious theme ; though based on a true story , it still leaves a lingering suspicion that life is not quite so neat . |
| 22 | It is an attempt to deal with a prevalent problem , but I fear a distortion — the Government are considering only one aspect of the issue . |
| 23 | Some sections of the local press , however , stated that a " sudden " reshuffle of this size was Zamora 's attempt to deal with a real crisis and the corruption which allegedly existed within ministerial bodies . |
| 24 | It 's hardly surprising that we should be deeply suspicious of any attempt to deal with a subject as charged as rape . |
| 25 | Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process . |
| 26 | I shall make no attempt to deal with every subject which was raised during the encyclopaedic Hinkley C Inquiry . |
| 27 | Ms Weldon , a member of the committee who was not asked to sit at the hearing , described the video as a serious attempt to deal with the bride of Christ notion . |
| 28 | He asked his colleague if he would consider giving him some age-regression therapy in an attempt to deal with the problem , whatever it was , that had been brought to light . |
| 29 | It was well-staged and well-sung ; and even if one had to put up with such seed pearls of wisdom as ‘ Beauty is in a lover 's eyes ’ , it was none the less a serious attempt to deal with the implications of the legend . |
| 30 | It is the attempt to deal with the choice as a formal rather than contextual issue which has led pedagogic grammarians into such easily flawed formulations of rules . |