Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the mercy [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 2 | Future pension rates will be at the mercy of employers who take over subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 3 | The prosperity of the Catalan economy had thus come to be at the mercy of events outside Spain . |
| 4 | There is a great need for more careful use of language , otherwise we shall be at the mercy of bureaucrats and their jargon . |
| 5 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 6 | And erm I think too , some ways of allowing people to have more power over their own lives , and not just being at the mercy of agencies , such as social services and erm |
| 7 | On the other hand it is equally important not to minimize the effects of sentencing practice on penal policy by assuming that the courts are at the mercy of pressures over which they have no control , and to which they can only passively respond . |
| 8 | Without such a starting point , she argues , a leader is at the mercy of events and unlikely to produce coherent policies . |