Example sentences of "[be] at the mercy " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Every man 's hand will be against him and gassing , snaring and poisoning will be the order of the day , with perhaps a bounty on his brush and he will be at the mercy of every council official , cowboy and yobbo in the country . |
| 3 | His daytime fear is that ordinary people in the coming , computerised society ‘ could be at the mercy of the technocrats ’ . |
| 4 | The Genoese city of Famagusta did not intend to be at the mercy of Mamelukes . |
| 5 | Within two or three years , the majority of a grafted vine 's network would be dependent not upon the grafted roots , but upon the regenerated root system of the producing vine and as such would be at the mercy of phylloxera . |
| 6 | Unlike other fuels you wo n't be at the mercy of the volatile world energy market either . |
| 7 | He was to be at the mercy of both and early on he knew it . |
| 8 | For the election of the other four you will be at the mercy of other people 's votes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If there is no non-contingent link between behaviour and mental state ( that is , if we accept ( a ) ) , we shall never be able to show ( b ) to be true , and hence we shall be at the mercy of a local scepticism of the very strongest form ( cf. 1.1 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The prosperity of the Catalan economy had thus come to be at the mercy of events outside Spain . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | Something neither short nor long , beginning with V. Somewhere in or near Paris , though how near could be at the mercy of French postal zoning . |
| 15 | ‘ And Fenella would be at the mercy of Goibniu and the rest . |
| 16 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 17 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 18 | Even if there were agreement , much of the disputed territory would still be at the mercy of both Serb and Croat irregulars , acting outside the control of their Government , and those forces would continue to be a source of fighting and unrest unless they were disarmed . |
| 19 | You would be at the mercy of the hall 's acoustics and ideally you would need to practise a bit beforehand . |
| 20 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 21 | Barring a last-minute volte-face by the MoD , the aircraft will then be at the mercy of the highest bidder , who might just be a scrap dealer . |
| 22 | There is a great need for more careful use of language , otherwise we shall be at the mercy of bureaucrats and their jargon . |
| 23 | Because it could n't wait until lunchtime and that , that 's perfectly understandable because he wants to feel in control of what 's going to happen to some degree , rather than just be at the mercy of someone else 's position . |