Example sentences of "dealing with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was dealing with a congenital liar , but was he dealing with a murderer ? |
| 2 | " A lease is not intended to be either a mental exercise or an essay in literature ; it is a practical document dealing with a practical situation " ( Levermore v Jobey [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 362 per Dankwerts LJ at 370 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ We are dealing with a dangerous individual here , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Harvard dealers were meanwhile telling their clients : " Think twice about dealing with a new firm like Kingsley Paige . |
| 5 | ‘ When some of the XV disappear through injury or some other reason it means that , all of a sudden , you are dealing with a new player who has to be parachuted in and the pressure on the individual is acute . |
| 6 | Since factors incur their major costs in the first year of dealing with a new client and make their best returns the longer the relationship lasts this is an area they must continue to address . |
| 7 | I suggest — this is merely an illustrative explanation — that we are here dealing with a cyclical phenomenon . |
| 8 | I think anybody who teaches in the creative arts has this [ rapport ] with kids , because it 's emotionally based … whereas if you 're dealing with a factual subject , a scientific subject , you 're dealing more with things and objects and reactions . |
| 9 | The important point emerges from the fact that in the first and third sentences we are dealing with a certain kind of disparity and in the second with the possibility of a disparity ( albeit one that is denied ) . |
| 10 | Whereas Hitchcock 's last British film , the pre-war Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) , could be said to be dealing with a similar area of subject matter to , say , Hatter 's Castle ( 1941 ) , the emotional level struck by the latter is a world away from the former . |
| 11 | Jack was busy , dealing with a nasty fracture , so she went to the nursing station and picked up the phone . |
| 12 | However that may be , we are dealing with a curious amalgam of services which has little coherence or consistency . |
| 13 | In no. 15 indeed , we might be dealing with a prefabricated panel ( Neal 1976b , 249 ; Neal 1981 , no. 75 ) : this is suggested by the cutting of the lion 's tail by the bordering line . |
| 14 | If we 're dealing with a front page horror story that 's exactly what your journalist is gon na have to do otherwise his editor says it 's not good enough you know go away , rewrite it and you got shock 'em you got ta make 'em cry and you 're not , not yet |
| 15 | It emerged yesterday that they thought they were dealing with a technical problem , not a full-scale emergency . |
| 16 | One way of dealing with a philosophical myth is to expose its implications . |
| 17 | There is another way of dealing with a philosophical myth . |
| 18 | When you 're dealing with a specific proposal . |
| 19 | More than this , he appears to have served on numerous committees dealing with a wide range of bills : in this way , perhaps more than any other , he may be considered to have , as he put it , ‘ done my country some good , whereunto we are all called ’ . |
| 20 | They have been a very popular means of dealing with a wide variety of functions which ministers want to encourage , to finance and to guide , but which would not fit easily into the structure of a government department . |
| 21 | Since we are dealing with a criminal offence , the general principles of the criminal law apply . |
| 22 | It was said that the report had advocated crude measures for dealing with a complex problem , and that not enough was known about the patterns of library use and the effects of browsing , literature obsolescence , or other factors , to put the future of university libraries at risk by wholesale withdrawals from stock at this stage of their development . |
| 23 | So what we have , if I can paint it like this , is a development programme which does n't just rely on Oxfordshire Social Services putting cash into it , because there are , if we manage this process properly , other people who we can encourage to bring money into Oxfordshire , but the key thing that 'll only do it is if they 're confident that they 're dealing with a competent organization and somebody that they trust and they have some form of credibility . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | After that they become too tall to manage easily , although dealing with a tall espalier growing flat on a wall is a breeze compared to pruning a bush tree of the same height . |
| 26 | The fact that some of the activities and functions of governmental agencies are subject to the rules of private law shows that we can not ( contrary to the tentative definition of public law suggested earlier ) answer this question solely in terms of whether we are dealing with a governmental agency . |
| 27 | In order to give a full account of the scope of public law it is necessary to add to the institutional criterion ( are we dealing with a governmental body ? ) a functional criterion — was the body performing a governmental function ? |
| 28 | His revelations amazed the investigators who had believed they were dealing with a limited case . |
| 29 | On the morning of my visit the courts were only dealing with a limited number of very minor matters , mostly drink related . |
| 30 | We are dealing with a time-honoured procedure . |