Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a person " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not as she thought right for a person 's end , |
| 2 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that until he discovered this clothing ( be it artificial carapace or ‘ the whole armour of God ’ ) , Lewis was only half-formed as a writer , as a literary imagination , perhaps as a person . |
| 4 | The gentleman thought of him only as a person , no more than one step up from a peasant . |
| 5 | FROM July next year credit reference agencies will be allowed to supply financial information only about a person applying for credit , the Data Protection Registrar , Eric Howe , said yesterday . |
| 6 | They 're sense of self is such that they do n't see that they have a self to assert , perhaps , or that they are not valid enough as a person , which obviously must stem erm from their early childhood experiences , and from the adults that surrounded them when they were growing and developing that sense of who they are . |
| 7 | The company itself is treated not merely as a person , the subject of rights and duties , but also as a res , the object of rights and duties . |
| 8 | undertake a range of non-chronological writing which includes , for pupils working towards level 2 , some at least of lists , captions , labels , invitations , greeting cards , notices , posters and , for pupils working towards level 3 , plans and diagrams , descriptions , eg of a person or place , and notes for an activity , eg in science or designing and making ; |
| 9 | Approaches such as these that assess a worker 's competence against nationally-established standards and that issue a qualification regardless of a person 's formal academic background need to be developed for larger groups of paraprofessionals . |
| 10 | Maybe this arises naturally within a person , naturally and purely ? |
| 11 | In the end , it is down to a person 's individual choice whether to be bad and to commit crime . |
| 12 | Under the English Bill of Lading Act of 1855 , the rights under the contract of affreightment are transferred only to a person ‘ to whom the property in the goods passes upon or by reason of endorsement . ’ |
| 13 | An infant who damages another by carelessly running into him on his bicycle is liable just as a person of full age would be . |
| 14 | Not as a person , I mean . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're not going anywhere — not as a band and not as a person . ’ |
| 16 | Abdominal symptoms in someone with diabetes may become urgent — advice should always be sought sooner for a person with diabetes . |
| 17 | ‘ He is exactly like a person , ’ Gustave wrote . |
| 18 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 19 | So that 's doing away with a person 's er wage is n't it . |
| 20 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 21 | For the purpose of this project text is categorised in terms of how it is produced ( i.e. printed by a machine or handwritten by a person ) , and how it is input to the computer for recognition ( i.e. is it recognised dynamically as a person writes or already existing text which is scanned in ) . |
| 22 | Secondly , a dear friend of mine has gone wandering off with a person I 'm fairly sure is addicted to a very nasty personality altering drug . |
| 23 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 24 | VAT is an indirect form of taxation ( unlike , for example , income tax , which is taken directly from a person 's wages ) . |
| 25 | The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools . |
| 26 | The evidence shows that this may well be a case in which failures by the ambulance service to provide an ambulance more quickly to a person who was in extremis was a cause of the death which might have been avoidable if the ambulance had been available earlier . |
| 27 | They were tipped off by a person claiming that the stand in West Bromwich , West Midlands , was not licensed to sell the reptiles . |
| 28 | He remembers Philby as a brilliant journalist — he was in the Lebanon as a correspondent for The Economist and the Observer — but also as a person of very obvious human failings . |
| 29 | Third , ‘ theories that attach moral significance to difference ’ : these approaches regard inequality as morally important , whenever in a person 's life it occurs . |
| 30 | Coming out as a person |