Example sentences of "[adj] a person [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I considered finding another writer but , as I only wanted a talented writer , I feared such a person would want to change the characters . ’ |
| 2 | Although regulations concerning the duties of an independent examiner have yet to be issued , there is an implication that such a person would charge little or nothing for their services . |
| 3 | Anyone could be arrested and accused of communist sympathies ; such a person would be tried by a special court consisting of four judges from which no appeal was allowed . |
| 4 | Such a person would not himself act as a teacher ( though there was no reason why a person with teaching experience might not make , as it were , a sideways step into this area of work ) ; he would not be a " leader of teachers " , and he would certainly not be anything approaching the Head of Resources envisaged in both the Codsall and Evans models mentioned above , with a curriculum development brief . |
| 5 | While I have no reason to believe that this was the case in respect of Wilson , or indeed any senior member of the Labour Party , I can understand why such a person would be reluctant to try to abort the inquiry . |
| 6 | Any duty owed to such a person would therefore have to be at common law . |
| 7 | Such a person may well earn a penalty if they continue to back-pedal . |
| 8 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 9 | Such a person may be ordered to make restitution in whatever way the court thinks appropriate . |
| 10 | Such a person may be believed when he says that he has only once tasted marijuana and did not inhale . |
| 11 | Thus section 236(2) ( c ) refers to ‘ any person whom the court thinks capable of giving information concerning the promotion , formation , business , dealings , affairs or property of the company , ’ and by subsection ( 3 ) such a person may be ordered to produce ‘ any books , papers or other records in its possession or under his control relating to a company or the matters mentioned in paragraph ( c ) of the subsection . ’ |
| 12 | The name of such a person may be changed under s.25(3) . |
| 13 | Such a person might , with the full sanction of ‘ Be aware ’ , deliberately choose the unpleasant alternative , to live for a while in a jungle or a slum . |
| 14 | ‘ In respect of all the applicants , a declaration that in carrying out his announced policy under and in relation to section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 in respect of persons serving sentences of life imprisonment imposed in the discretion of the trial judge , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long such a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention ( that is to say , the notional determinate sentence less one-third remission ) recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 15 | It seems impossible to me that she can not be brought back to life , that such a person can not be brought back to normal life . |
| 16 | All such a person can say , quoting Dicey , is that he or she is free to do that which no law prohibits . |
| 17 | Examples can be found in the research literature on elderly people , where it is reported that those without children tend to form equivalent ties with whichever kin are available , typically a niece or nephew , although there is some doubt about whether such a person can properly be expected to provide such extensive or reliable support as a ‘ real ’ child ( Townsend , 1965 ; Allan , 1983 ; Wenger , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | It is true that , as the term is commonly used , a representative , as opposed to a delegate , is not mandated to speak or vote in particular ways ; but it has always been a puzzle to me to understand in what ways such a person can then be said to represent , or speak for , those who sent him/her there . |
| 19 | Such a person can enforce the contract against the other party but can not generally himself be sued . |
| 20 | If necessary , such a person could then be sent on a suitable training course to learn any technical skills which might seem to be appropriate . |
| 21 | Somebody who combined the qualities of Rupert and John , if such a person could be imagined . |
| 22 | It is even difficult to say that a very rich person could be compensated in money terms ; thus , however heinous the libel , such a person should get not more than a nominal sum and his costs . |
| 23 | Conran is first and foremost an entrepreneur , who lives up magnificently to his own definition of what such a person should be : someone who takes risks after carefully assessing the opportunities available to him . |
| 24 | Such a person should , I think , be prepared to act in this capacity for a few years to ensure continuity . |
| 25 | Finally someone spoke to a policeman about her , saying he thought it was disgraceful that such a person should be allowed to lurk about near to a play-park for the under-fives , and that ‘ nutty beggar-women ’ should be kept out of the parks . |
| 26 | Those nearest to such a person will have established some way of communicating directly . |
| 27 | If asked to recall a date such a person will proceed by inference rather than by a direct introspective search , e.g. ‘ it can not be next week but it must be within the next month ’ or ‘ this kind of event is always on a Tuesday ’ and so on . |
| 28 | As a junior nurse new to the surgical ward you are in a good position to understand how uncomfortable a person can feel in a strange place with unfamiliar people . |
| 29 | Given that a person could be an illegal entrant through deception , what standard of proof was to be applied when reviewing the immigration officer 's decision that a person had entered by deception ? |
| 30 | In fact , all a person would need to do in the middle of a Darkfall storm would be to remain calm , not touch anything — unless he or she is wearing gloves and wait for the effect to pass . |