Example sentences of "[noun sg] to deal [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a Stalinist , Nizan was doubtless reassured that prompt action to deal with the anti-Soviet activities had been taken . |
| 2 | We must take action to deal with the changed situation we presently face . |
| 3 | The strategies of splitting are essential for the infant 's attempt to deal with the genuine contradictions it encounters in struggling to form some image of itself and the part-objects it confronts . |
| 4 | Despite this , the SGA 1979 does make some attempt to deal with the Scottish dilemma vis à vis non-possessory security interests through the insertion of s61(4) of the 1893 Act ( now s62(4) of the 1979 Act ) , a provision specifically drafted for Scotland but which also applies to England . |
| 5 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
| 6 | Au pairs ' hours have to be fitted around language classes and travelling and so are unlikely to fit in with yours , unless you are prepared to compromise a great deal and have the energy after work to deal with the appalling homesickness experienced by young people living far from home . |
| 7 | Very simply put , you 'd have one amp to deal with the low end and one to deal with the upper mid of your bass signal . |
| 8 | Past experience of losses of the same nature as a current loss was found to reduce the person 's capacity to deal with the current loss . |
| 9 | Being trapped by such circumstances may well increase the individual 's likelihood of suffering a psychiatric disorder , because , by definition , they would become unable or restricted in capacity to deal with the developing difficulties . |
| 10 | ‘ Representative processes , ’ says Hallowell , ‘ are at the root of Man 's capacity to deal with the abstract qualities of objects and events , his ability to deal with the possible or conceivable , the ideal as well as the actual , the intangible along with the tangible , the absent as well as the present object or event , with fantasy and with reality . |
| 11 | Early in 1914 , the Board felt it advisable to appoint a House Committee to deal with the day-to-day affairs of the Institution , and the committee met for the first time on 28th April with Mr. W. T. Lansberry in the chair . |
| 12 | One of the Australians worked in real estate in Hong Kong : ‘ The toughest place to deal in the whole world . ’ |
| 13 | Your statement misrepresented the educational influences upon you in your early career and sought to excuse your failure to deal with the established links between poverty and ill health . |
| 14 | In a speech in Gloucester tonight he 's expected to launch a bitter attack on the Government 's failure to deal with the current wave of crime . |
| 15 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 16 | Delegates expressed the hope that the environmental damage caused during the Gulf War — in particular Iraq 's release of oil slicks and the firing of Kuwaiti oil wells and the UN coalition 's bombing of nuclear , chemical and biological warfare facilities — would focus governments ' attention on the need to deal with the environmental dimension of modern warfare and to outlaw environmentally damaging actions not directly related to war arms . |
| 17 | The impetus for the Bill , as we have seen , came from two sources : first the need to deal with the growing mass of social legislation and the proliferation of agencies responsible for its administration ; and second , the belief in popular democracy . |
| 18 | Is not it time that some urgent policy measures were introduced by the Ministry of Defence to deal with the major problem from 1992 onwards ? |
| 19 | Another ‘ scholarship girl ’ was shamefully treated by the rest of us because of her ( very slight ) Cockney accent , her generally ‘ non-U ’ turns of phrase , and her inability to deal with the simpler points of etiquette , whether at table or in the classroom . |
| 20 | Marxism 's inability to deal with the political interventions of other oppositional groups has meant that its History can no longer claim to subsume all processes of change . |
| 21 | These states also complained that Germany was dumping waste in other EC states because of its own inability to deal with the high targets it has set itself under its own laws . |
| 22 | Even Alexander , in October 1825 , had gone back on his decision to deal with the Greek question unilaterally and had instigated talks on Greece with Britain . |
| 23 | We have to make a bigger struggle to deal with the racial prejudices within the women 's movement especially in white countries . |
| 24 | Had he been in his place on Tuesday , when my right hon. Friend made the opening speech on the Loyal Address , he would have heard him say that the Government would introduce a measure to deal with the young thugs , as my hon. Friend calls them , who indulge in joyriding , a practice which hon. Members in all parts of the House deplore ; those young people will , therefore , be offending . |
| 25 | Preventative measures are indeed being advocated by the N.S.C.A. as an interim measure to deal with the widespread nuisance caused by straw and stubble burning after harvest . |
| 26 | There are a larger number of informal meetings not preceded by any significant preparation to deal with the day-to-day problems of keeping the project moving . |
| 27 | The extrovert Grobbelaar makes his 16th Wembley appearance in today 's Charity Shield against Leeds with the Anfield chief claiming the 35-year-old is perhaps the best keeper to deal with the new back pass laws . |
| 28 | ‘ There will be a consumer watchdog to deal with the whole range of consumer rights and needs , ’ he promised . |
| 29 | The trigger points are innumerable but the nurse should have the maturity to deal with the resultant feelings in a constructive way that avoids reflecting any annoyance on to the patient . |
| 30 | Over the next few days Sir Robin could need all the native cunning and tact he once showed as a cricket captain to deal with the political uncertainty many expect after the election . |