Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] to deal [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 But to describe the issue as one which depends on whether or not the bank must be taken to have appointed the husband as its agent to deal with the wife and to procure her consent serves , in my opinion , to mask the basis upon which in certain cases creditors have failed to enforce their security against the third parties and upon which in other cases they have succeeded .
3 In other words , they felt more confident about their capacity to deal with the tsar than at any point since the end of the 1820s .
4 There is a third limit to early structuralism and that is its failure to deal with the historicity of structures .
5 The business plan 's third big hole is its failure to deal with the lawsuits that names are bringing for alleged negligence by agents .
6 In the face of their impotence to deal with the apparent all-embracing power of those ranged against them , the parents decided this was their only weapon .
7 They said other delegations had rejected their demand to deal with the issues of violence and the future form of the state before setting an election date .
8 Results obtained in testing its ability to deal with the recognition problem .
9 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 .
10 He spoke of ‘ a new age , in which people can come together ’ , directed his administration to deal with the reorganization of pensions , housing , the improvements to maternity homes and the reorganization of the poor law .
11 His refusal to deal with the PLO is practical , not emotional .
12 His refusal to deal with the PLO is practical , not emotional .
13 The mystified motorist whose car has gone wrong may know only that it needs repair and that he should take it to a mechanic : his competence to deal with the matter may go no further .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 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 .
16 In accepting being alone much will obviously depend on the reason behind the situation and our ability to deal with the problems related to being a single person : the death of a partner or parents in retirement ; becoming separated or divorced ; adjusting to being an ‘ alien ’ pensioner .
17 Step up your filtration to deal with the resulting waste ?
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