Example sentences of "be dealing with the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When you 're dealing with the smallest cogs in a ‘ million pound train-set ’ which in any case will not be operational for decades , how can you think to exchange these with a human life ?
2 But even then you see you 're dealing with the top fifty per cent of the population .
3 We need to be dealing with the whole thing as a community , as a society .
4 I had seen Cabinets which all the time seemed to be dealing with the day-to-day problems and there was never a real opportunity to deal with strategy , either from the point of view of the Government or the country .
5 — From this it follows that we can not be dealing with the same concept of experience here .
6 ‘ We are dealing with the assumed possession by the officers of government of what turned out to be a void authority .
7 In communication it is so easy to forget that we are dealing with the other person 's world and not our own .
8 In this book we are dealing with the second function ; application forms as a means of making an initial selection .
9 In all this , we are dealing with the implicit , contrary themes of attitudinal arguments and the contexts in which they might be developed explicitly .
10 But this is no ordinary technology : we are dealing with the subtle energies which flow through the Earth and which have their own ways and seasons .
11 When age and period interact , we may assume we are dealing with the unique experiences of a generation growing up under particular conditions .
12 ‘ I am trying to explain to you , ’ Miss Honey said patiently , ‘ that we are dealing with the unknown .
13 As we are dealing with the larger species of Cichlasoma our suggestions will be aimed at this group of fish .
14 His eyebrows twitched and he said , ‘ This week we are dealing with the sixth chapter of St Matthew … ’ whereupon 90 per cent of the audience tumbled out of the room .
15 I know that many killings are done for next to nothing but we are not dealing with street muggers or footloose louts , we are dealing with the middle-aged and the middle-class-people who know which side their bread is buttered and value their reputations almost more than their deeds and their share certificates .
16 We are dealing with the French legal system .
17 I wanted to work with people who are running a small firm , people who are dealing with the same problems as me because they 're running a small business . ’
18 Once again , it would seem clear that we are dealing with the same individual , whose militant nationalism it was deemed expedient to conceal .
19 Even where the name is recorded early on , however , we can not be sure that we are dealing with the same site , bearing in mind the movement implied above .
20 The reader is reminded that all that has been written so far has been dealing with the First and Second Periods into which the development of the Created God has been divided .
21 Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first .
22 I am dealing with the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East .
23 No , I am dealing with the Foreign Secretary , who gave me a circumlocutory reply to a question that I did not ask him .
24 The stunned production team were dealing with the tidal wave as best they could when an awful realization dawned .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Only thing is dealing with the awkward people
28 This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’
29 Where Her Majesty 's Government is dealing with the foreign government on a normal government to government basis as the government of the relevant foreign state , it is unlikely in the extreme that the inference that the foreign government is the government of that state will be capable of being rebutted and questions of public policy and considerations of the interrelationship of the judicial and executive arms of government may be paramount : see The Arantzazu Mendi [ 1939 ] A.C. 256 , 264 and Gur Corporation v. Trust Bank of Africa Ltd. [ 1987 ] Q.B .
30 The disability arts movement is the only area which is dealing with the cultural vacuum which now exists given this shift .
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