Example sentences of "to deal with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They do not therefore have to deal with great daily variations in these conditions .
2 After two or three days of exploring Stanley and its environs it was time to go to ‘ camp ’ ( from a Spanish word ‘ campos ’ meaning countryside ) and our tour of the islands took us to the three or four places equipped to deal with small parties of visitors .
3 It was certainly used as an argument in support of the establishment of special courts with simplified procedure to deal with small claims .
4 Special procedures have been devised to deal with small claims , that is those for below £500 , encouraging use of what is known as the small claims court .
5 He is a small businessman and he likes to deal with small bankers .
6 They knew that the village police sergeant and constable were there not only to deal with ordinary crime but to report on any political activity in their district .
7 Senior management may not be prepared to deal with ordinary salespeople , or even sales managers .
8 My hon. Friend has illustrated powerfully the double standards employed by the Government to deal with ordinary people and those in the City .
9 Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen , many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin 's government to its knees after the October Revolution .
10 Over the centuries the Church of England has developed a complex set of laws to deal with internal matters , and deals with them in its own courts .
11 Finally , how does the priority system , designed to deal with internal weaknesses , facilitate the absorption of foreign technology ?
12 Police forces should be strengthened to deal with internal security ; this was rendered more significant by the labour unrest in Japan earlier in 1947 .
13 V. P. Singh announced on Aug. 24 that the government was creating a National Security Council , which he would head , to deal with internal and external security problems .
14 The Labour and Socialist International was not prepared to recommend the formation of United Fronts in individual countries but issued the following reply to the Comintern : We feel it to be our duty to call upon the Parties affiliated to the LSI to hold their hands if possible and not to deal with Communist offers of this kind in the individual countries until the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International has defined its attitude towards the new platform of the Comintern .
15 These reasons were not given in order to deal with explicit criticisms , for explicit criticisms are rare .
16 It reflected the growing problem of how to deal with surplus manpower once peace had been made in a major theatre of war .
17 However , young children , trained to deal with visual dimensions such as shape or texture , are able to outperform the spontaneous levels of attention achieved by adults .
18 The first is an attempt to rectify Realism 's inability to deal with economic issues .
19 The rebels were part of a strongly nationalist " Revolutionary Bolivarist Movement " whose intention was to establish a " junta of national reconstruction " to deal with economic problems , social disparity and corruption , taking advantage of the government 's low popularity , particularly among the middle classes .
20 ‘ Community enterprises provide a vital role in enabling communities to develop all kinds of initiatives to deal with economic , social and environmental issues . ’
21 During his leadership , the gardai had to deal with major acts of IRA-related violence , including the assassination of the British Ambassador to Dublin , Christopher Ewart Biggs , and the kidnapping of Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema .
22 Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that
23 The town 's fire services were never adequate to deal with major conflagrations as classical sources well remind us .
24 It would be helpful to consider what Dr Slabbert said at the conference in Johannesburg on August 2 , 1991 , namely that the Department of National Health has the capacity to deal with major health problems .
25 Lincoln takes the opposite view , Lincoln says here is a crisis the person uniquely placed to deal with major crises in American politics is the president and I , Abe Lincoln , stand forward and I 'm prepared to do almost anything if in my judgment it 's necessary to preserve the nation and the constitution .
26 This has raised expectations of similar operations to deal with major challenges to peace and massive violations of human rights elsewhere .
27 In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the government singled out ‘ peace studies ’ for criticism , saying that it had no place on the school curriculum because it failed to deal with certain issues in a balanced and objective manner .
28 However , first of all it is necessary to deal with certain key terms used in the market , together with the types and uses made of loans .
29 The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries .
30 In paragraph 15 the committee discuss ‘ the chief defects in the existing law of larceny , ’ including its failure to deal with certain kinds of dishonesty .
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