Example sentences of "[was/were] deal with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His revelations amazed the investigators who had believed they were dealing with a limited case . |
| 2 | They soon realised they were dealing with a brilliant , but disturbed mind . |
| 3 | All were dealing with a far-off , complex country of which most , even by then , still knew little . |
| 4 | It emerged yesterday that they thought they were dealing with a technical problem , not a full-scale emergency . |
| 5 | The consistency of these distortions and the immediacy with which they occur convinced the Gestalt psychologists that they were dealing with a fundamental property of the brain rather than something that we have learned . |
| 6 | If you were dealing with a foreign national it often paid to have a representative of a Great Power , like Britain , at your back . |
| 7 | This would present no great difficulty if one were dealing with a single cell but real lumber contains many thousands and it is necessary to diffuse the water from the inner cells through the walls of most of the other cells which lie between them and the outer world . |
| 8 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
| 9 | Still , the sounds the JMP-1 produces — not only live , but direct to tape — would lead you to believe you were dealing with a whole crate of bottles . |
| 10 | The stunned production team were dealing with the tidal wave as best they could when an awful realization dawned . |
| 11 | What worried me in looking at the Franks Report is that it was the same group of ministers on the same committee that were dealing with the big issues of war and peace in Middle Europe , with the procurement of nuclear weapons systems . |
| 12 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 13 | On March 6 , 1990 , both Presidents signed the " San Pedro Alejandrino " agreement promising to implement future proposals of existing bilateral border commissions and setting up five more bilateral commissions , one of which was to deal with the controversial issue of territorial demarcation in the Gulf of Venezuela . |
| 14 | Pence and pounds than it was to deal with the old pounds , shillings and pence . |
| 15 | He was dealing with a congenital liar , but was he dealing with a murderer ? |
| 16 | Half an hour later she was dealing with a small crisis that had cropped up and had forgotten all about Mr Massingham as she sent Jimmy on an urgent trip for some paperwork she needed . |
| 17 | This persuaded me it was unlikely I was dealing with a guilty man . |
| 18 | All that is except this one when it could be said he was dealing with a special case — of cutlery . |
| 19 | At the international level , the US went into the crisis thinking that it was dealing with a second-division military power led by an incompetent petty dictator . |
| 20 | And there is some indication that Baldwin , from this time forward , felt that he was dealing with a time-expired Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Whichever bell was tolling , the question-and-answer on the specific issue of the FBR revealed that the committee was dealing with a legendary creature indifferent to the usual processes of judgement , time and fate . |
| 22 | It was one forty-three in the morning and the duty sergeant was n't quite sure whether he was dealing with a wrong number , a hoax , or an emergency . |
| 23 | Then it was a different sort of regiment because it was dealing with a different sort of enemy . |
| 24 | In re An Inquiry under the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 [ 1988 ] A.C. 660 was dealing with a different statute in an entirely different situation , where the journalist had a statutory right , subject to exceptions , to protect his sources of information , so that it was natural for the court , in evaluating a reasonable excuse under the Financial Services Act 1986 , to focus on that statutory right and its exceptions . |
| 25 | However , Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. was dealing with a different statute , which did not concern statutory regulatory powers , and which does not in my judgment have the same considerations of urgency . |
| 26 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |
| 27 | ‘ Lady , if I 'd known I was dealing with a certifiable lunatic wild horses would n't have dragged me here . ’ |
| 28 | Walsh was assured that the people concerned were not French — though they were as bad — and he quickly concluded that he was dealing with no more than ‘ a mischiefuous gang of disaffected Englishmen ’ . |
| 29 | It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence . |
| 30 | The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion . |