Example sentences of "[noun] for deal [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 There was , then , a clear political strategy in both countries for dealing with the public enterprises .
7 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 .
8 The DES ( 1978 ) outlined five possibilities for dealing with the declining number of school leavers .
9 There was a formal process for dealing with the arrested .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 As to the strategy for dealing with the Iraqi army entrenched in Kuwait he said that " first we are going to cut it off , then we are going to kill it " .
13 An index to local geophysical surveys is nearly complete , and techniques for dealing with the digital field data , including their retrieval and presentation as profiles and maps , have been proved in a pilot study .
14 In addition , it is responsible for formulating the policy for dealing with the various kinds of applications ( subject to the directions of the Bar Council and the Inns ' Council ) and for revising the Consolidated Regulations as and when necessary .
15 This was advocated by the pioneer sexologists Masters and Johnson , as a satisfactory method for dealing with the common problem of premature ejaculation .
16 Individuals such as Charles Kettering , former Director of R & D for General Motors , have taken it upon themselves to ‘ buck the system ’ by developing their own style for dealing with the organizational barriers to innovation .
17 Beyond all these institutional complexities lies the prison , the probation service and mechanisms for dealing with the convicted offender .
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