Example sentences of "to deal [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 HOW TO DEAL WITH SPOTS
2 In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries .
3 Japan 's post-war constitution forbids the use of its navy outside territorial waters , but there are concerns to safeguard the imports of plutonium , which are intended to deal with Japan 's approaching energy crisis .
4 Anyone working in the retail trade will often have to deal with customers who want to exchange or return goods .
5 Recently everyone in the sales administration department attended a course on how to deal with customers on the phone .
6 True enough , but how easily this can lead to the conclusion that anyone who attempts to deal with things that matter must be a bore , that rather than run the risk of talking nonsense one should play it safe and stick to charming trifles … .
7 You 'd never have to deal with things like that in Crossmaglen .
8 They had a French polisher in occasionally to deal with things like that . )
9 There were house parties but a place like this needed a master to deal with things , like prowlers and gypsies camping in the woods .
10 She must be trying to deal with things in her past that she 's frightened to face , frightened to admit .
11 That 's created quite a problem because it 's more difficult to teach the lads in the teams how to deal with things like that .
12 Many students , teachers , educationalists , and examiners like to deal with things which can be classified as clearly right or wrong , and perhaps this is one reason why they have favoured an atomistic approach to foreign language learning , for communication is hard to assess , whereas isolated levels like grammar and vocabulary are much easier .
13 because it 's a lot easier for a government to say if you stop smoking it 'll be alright , than to deal with things like poverty .
14 So er I do n't mind at all being interrupted if anyone has questions as we go along please shout them out it gives me a little breather with me voice and gives a chance to deal with things in the right place if need be .
15 You are proposing to send your solicitor friend to deal with things .
16 ‘ You 're not equipped to deal with things like this , Jenna . ’
17 It is a question of priorities : some industrial customers may not be prepared to deal with salespeople , and may insist on granting access only to people of their own status and organisational level .
18 They wanted employees to be able to deal with manufacturing problems on their own initiative , without management intervention .
19 If your business needs to deal with n different ‘ trading partners ’ , you do n't want to have to send messages in n different formats , or subscribe to several different networks .
20 Government ‘ controllers ’ to deal with shipping , labour , food , food production and national service greatly extended the control of government .
21 Areas looking to gain also include the Borders , and Dumfries and Galloway , but Grampian 's case is strengthened by the commission 's decision to widen the definition of Objective 5b to deal with areas hit by fishing industry decline .
22 It is this declaration which symbolises the primacy of cohesiveness over stability , and it arose , one must recall , not in response to the avowed enemies of Socialism , but to a loyal leadership which demonstrated the will and ability to deal with society on society 's terms .
23 Use the same tactic to deal with name dropping and use of jargon : ‘ I do n't understand who/what you 're talking about . ’
24 The anti-hunt lobby , likening the pastime to murder … the pro-hunt supporters demanding the freedom to deal with vermin … and tenant farmers who rent their land from the council and want to make their own decision about any ban .
25 Furthermore , increasing the transition length to deal with trigrams gives better results than the equivalent bigram equation .
26 In many of the prisons , CAB sessions are geared to deal with prisoners ' pre-release anxieties and to explain how the CAB on the outside will be able to help them when they are released .
27 The Roman Empire was already split into eastern and western halves , but its growing impotence was now demonstrated by the inability of its imperial armies to deal with Attila independently — it was a warning that the Roman Empire in the west was almost dead .
28 The club 's accounting policy is to deal with expenditure and receipts for player transfers through the p&l account .
29 With ICC president Sir Colin Cowdrey on an Asian tour , it was left to the secretary , Colonel John Stephenson , to deal with Murray 's report .
30 Sage has an enviable reputation for knowing how to deal with accounts — ask any accountant — and , it seems , accounting firms are happy to give discounts to businesses who present their books in Sage format .
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