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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 New guidelines for dealing with the sexual abuse of adults with learning difficulties have been published by the Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped .
4 How competent are the teachers in each setting for dealing with the specific characteristics of the child in question ?
5 President Roosevelt broadly favoured trusteeship for dealing with the former western colonial territories in South-East Asia occupied by Japan in 1941–42 .
6 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 .
7 The successes first of Constantius and then of Aëtius in dealing with the Germanic invaders obscure the real weakness of the Roman position .
8 Organisations may be less ready to deal with radical solutions because of the dangers of dealing with the unfamiliar .
9 The debt and the facility are under a single agreement or course of dealing with the same lender or group of lenders .
10 Do you think that it 's possible for the big Italian museums to privatise their subsidiary functions without an advisory body of trustees , if only to assist museum administrators who have little experience of dealing with the commercial side ?
11 There was , then , a clear political strategy in both countries for dealing with the public enterprises .
12 Teachers showed a great deal of skill in dealing with the many interruptions of the classroom day , generally managing to neutralize them either by simply refusing to be distracted by them , or by transmuting them into a part of the teaching session .
13 Britain also sought American help in dealing with the unilateral declaration of independence by the whites of Southern Rhodesia in 1965 in the face of the Wilson government 's insistence on safeguards for the rest of the population .
14 He is harsh and shows little pity in dealing with the fallen angels and his exclamation that his son will be exalted resounds with a rather curt and slightly arrogant ring .
15 They have long been committed to the idea of such a conference for dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict ; they are now committed to the idea of such a conference for negotiating a Gulf peace ; there is no obvious way to keep the two ideas apart .
16 The DES ( 1978 ) outlined five possibilities for dealing with the declining number of school leavers .
17 There was a formal process for dealing with the arrested .
18 It was around this point , in the midst of dealing with the many demands being made on my attention , that I happened to glance out of a window and spotted the figure of the young Mr Cardinal taking some fresh air around the grounds .
19 In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones .
20 The big trap in dealing with the Duveen Galleries is the centre octagon .
21 Up to 1946 , Truman had been able to rely on support from both Democrats and Republicans in dealing with the Soviet Union .
22 Stress directs resources away from dealing with the job to dealing with the emotional discomfort and personal threat .
23 After the hassle of dealing with the subtle sunlight of evening , it was a sheer relief to set up tripod at the Moorea Village Hotel , and shoot a few of the guests relaxing at sunset beneath the convenient palm-tree across the still waters of the swimming pool ( figure XX ) .
24 These anxieties strengthen the importance of habit : people stick to credit types they know from experience , rather than risk the worry and difficulties of dealing with the unknown .
25 There were five ancient parishes within the Borough of Bedford and in the second half of the eighteenth century they experienced increasing difficulty in dealing with the poor in the town .
26 Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities .
27 I want to make one comment about the referendum before dealing with the main subject of my speech .
28 Between groups , categories , communities and societies there will be different mixes and levels of competences in dealing with the outside world which will inevitably affect their conceptualisation of it , the resources available to them , and their response to it .
29 It was a product of Castro 's evolving strategy for dealing with the concrete hostility that he anticipated from the United States , rather than a response to the bombing itself .
30 Our brief extended beyond looking at the prevalence of heroin use and included documenting the impact of the ‘ epidemic ’ on the local community , evaluating service provision and recommending and updating a strategy for dealing with the negative effects of widespread heroin use .
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