Example sentences of "to deal [prep] the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then collect me and we 'll head off to the Yard to deal with the mess that 's going on there . ’ |
| 2 | There are so many machines , and so many good books , to deal with the subject that it would be foolhardy to attempt any detailed sewing instructions here . |
| 3 | On top of this , inevitably but it seems rather unfairly , they have to deal with the problem that faces every teacher in a new school : the fact that they do not know its geography , its structure and its rules , both explicit and unwritten , nor do they have a chance to get to know the personalities and quirks of more than a handful of either pupils or teachers . |
| 4 | Clearly , any explanation based on the idea of women 's domestic role giving them certain personality traits , like status consciousness , is unable to deal with the fact that different women behave differently . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've had to try to deal with the fact that lots and lots of men do terrible things . |
| 6 | She 's a little preoccupied at the moment , just an ordinary person finding it hard to deal with the madness that selling vast amounts of records brings . |
| 7 | Yel'tsin later agreed to take part in the negotiations that led to a ‘ 9 + 1 ’ agreement at Novo-Ogarevo , a government dacha near Moscow , between President Gorbachev and nine of the republican leaders , covering a wide range of measures to deal with the crisis that had developed in every sphere of Soviet life but especially the economy , and he was still prepared , after the unsuccessful coup , to negotiate a new political union . |
| 8 | The best way , then , to deal with the complaint that psychological-cum-biological theories of the state are too vague is to attempt a combination between these theories and those we reviewed at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 9 | Somehow , he forgot to deal with the allegation that the Prime Minister 's stay in Candelada gave the ‘ mark of approbation ’ to the animal abuse . |
| 10 | As we have seen already when we have to cope with a large number of losses in a short time , it becomes much harder to deal with the grief that we feel . |
| 11 | Yoshida 's attitude to communism was pragmatic : while he disliked communism as an ideology , it was necessary to deal with the world that existed . |
| 12 | One of the principal difficulties faced by the Russians at present is that they have no effective distribution system whatsoever to deal with the aid that is available to them . |
| 13 | Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period . |