Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] dealing [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Doctors in early modern England had developed no special skills for dealing with the health of older people .
2 Merry puts forward his plans for dealing with the ruffians by force .
3 The DPP 's worries are premature : the KMT 's aim in the talks is merely to establish a framework for dealing with the problems that crop up between two commercial partners whose business is booming , but whose governments have no relations .
4 The government was urged to provide funds for the training of staff and additional support for dealing with the more difficult pupils .
5 The conflicting demands of efficient service provision , democratic involvement , and local historical or community traditions led to different proposals for dealing with the perceived shortcomings of the existing local government system .
6 In units which employ a multidisciplinary approach , each patient might be allocated one member of staff ( a ‘ primary therapist ’ ) who has the main responsibility for dealing with the patient 's problems .
7 When we examine animals with nervous systems that were built with conditional rules for dealing with the external environment , the business of predicting how they will respond on the basis of knowing how they were made becomes impossible .
8 Galbraith identifies seven basic strategies for dealing with the need to process increasing amounts of information in complex coordination .
9 Success required dogged determination , academic ability , money , plenty of patience for dealing with the state bureaucracy and some useful contacts or ‘ guanxi ’ , i.e. connections with people in positions of responsibility who could help , which was becoming an increasingly important way of getting things done in China .
10 He also attended a meeting at which the lessors and their solicitors discussed tactics for dealing with the lessees .
11 New guidelines for dealing with the sexual abuse of adults with learning difficulties have been published by the Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped .
12 The president of the RICS at the time filed evidence about his practice for dealing with the very large number of applications for appointments of rent review experts and arbitrators ( 7,664 in 1985 : but see 10.5.3 above14,550 in 1990 ) .
13 How competent are the teachers in each setting for dealing with the specific characteristics of the child in question ?
14 President Roosevelt broadly favoured trusteeship for dealing with the former western colonial territories in South-East Asia occupied by Japan in 1941–42 .
15 The question at issue is not so much prison reform — although our prison buildings are now shamefully antiquated , obsolete and , for the most part , entirely unsuitable for use as penal establishments — as the provision of up-to-date and more enlightened methods of dealing with the problem of treating the offender , and in particular the juvenile offender .
16 Scientists diving and photographing in blue water have devised methods of dealing with the possibilities of runaway icebergs , strong currents and disorientation by using a system of safety divers and tethers .
17 The Director General , before considering a complaint , may require the complainant to satisfy him that alternative methods of dealing with the matter have been tried and found inadequate .
18 The construction is interesting and throws light on the Roman methods of dealing with the problem of erecting such a structure on a level site to accommodate some 45,000 to 50,000 people .
19 However , there is no intention of dealing with the question of long-waves .
20 The Minister — this Minister — replied : ’ Warning signals are intended to alert officers to potential difficulties or risks in dealing with the individual .
21 This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions .
22 The successes first of Constantius and then of Aëtius in dealing with the Germanic invaders obscure the real weakness of the Roman position .
23 Anyone else asking for information should immediately be referred to the manager who will take the responsibility of dealing with the enquiry .
24 Normally ( see Fig. 3.2 ) cortisol is secreted mainly around the time of waking and this seems to be part of dealing with the ‘ stress ’ of waking up and preparing for the new day .
25 The other was part of dealing with the affairs of a builder who had emigrated .
26 Organisations may be less ready to deal with radical solutions because of the dangers of dealing with the unfamiliar .
27 ‘ Where a right , duty or liability would arise under a contract of sale of goods by implication of law , it may ( subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ) be negatived or varied by express agreement , or by the course of dealing between the parties , or by such usage as binds both parties to the contract . ’
28 ‘ The matters to which regard is to be had in particular … are any of the following which appear to be relevant — ; ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practic-able ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer . ’
29 ( 5 ) This section is subject to any usage of trade , special agreement , or course of dealing between the parties . ’
30 The price in a contract of sale may be fixed by the contract , or may be left to be fixed in a manner agreed by the contract , or may be determined by the course of dealing between the parties .
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