Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [art] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longer a person ( here defined as the head of the household ) is unemployed , the more likely it is that he or she will belong to the general labourer or other occupational groups . |
| 2 | Although it is less the case now than in the past , the longer a person has been on a particular committee the greater the likelihood that he or she will eventually succeed either to its chair or to the senior minority party position . |
| 3 | The more a person 's mind is kept active , the more they will enjoy their life into and in old age . |
| 4 | We suggest that the more a person is in love and the less they are able to define what it is in the other that they love , the less free is the conscious choice and the more it relates to the ‘ me in you ’ and the search for psychological wholeness through another . |
| 5 | The more a person is integrated into a close-knit social network , the more time they spend speaking to the same group of people and the less they spend in contact with others who might change their speech . |
| 6 | The same survey found that the more a person smokes the less faith that person has in believing that he or she can stop . |
| 7 | The more the level of their anxiety rises the more the person will panic , further increasing the anxiety . |
| 8 | There is common agreement amongst librarians , even outside the school library sector , that the earlier a person acquires library and information skills the better . |
| 9 | Broadly speaking , the higher a person is in the management structure , the more essential it is for him or her to be given work when it is available . |
| 10 | At one stage no less a person than Bobby Kennedy , soon to accompany Josie to the grave , had offered to help Roth gain his freedom . |
| 11 | In November the Smolensk guberniia executive committee is being rebuked in turn by no less a person than V. Molotov , Secretary of the Central Committee in Moscow , for allowing subordinates to impose taxes beyond those laid down in the All-Union list . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , the very fact that no less a person than the prime Minister speaks in such a way is a confession that green issues have intruded upon political life to such an extent that they can no longer be ignored ! |
| 13 | Many were amazed that the war against Bolshevism was already more or less over , but no less a person than the Führer himself had again lent support to such notions with his proclamation to the soldiers on the eastern Front on 2 October , in which he spoke of ‘ the last mighty blow to smash the enemy even before the onset of winter ’ . |
| 14 | On the other hand , in 1806 no less a person than James Clark , farrier to the King in Scotland , in his First Lines of Veterinary Physiology and Pathology wrote that the healing art , and the art of shoeing , would and should necessarily continue as two linked aspects of a country veterinary practitioner 's work . |
| 15 | This may seem a somewhat fanciful proposition , but no less a person than Chomsky has suggested such a possibility . |
| 16 | No less a person than Firth , not someone , one supposes , who would have rejected all learning in favour of the bottle , observes that grammarians ‘ make regular use of nonsense ’ . |
| 17 | During this time he earned a reputation as an intrepid aerial adventurer , in whom no less a person than King George III took a special interest in his ballooning exploits . |
| 18 | In the plenary session which he addressed , Sir James discreetly avoided the question ( conveyed by no less a person that the Aga Khan ) about which British companies he rated in environmental terms . |
| 19 | Seamen felt themselves constantly under attack from the press , particularly that presided over by Lord Northcliffe , who had given up the conscription campaign , but continued to blacken the character of merchant sailors and firemen , while in other circles they were being lauded for their valour by no less a person than Admiral Sir John Jellicoe himself . |
| 20 | That idea had come from no less a person than the famous Sylvia Grey — who could sing , dance and play the piano , divinely . |
| 21 | Particularly annoyed was the CGLI which said that the DES statement had included ‘ some unwarranted and damaging remarks about the Institute ’ , a gaffe for which it received an apology from no less a person than the Permanent Secretary . |
| 22 | No less a person than Gloria Estefan rang my startled publisher before leaving London , to order the Ology book , because she was crazy for the commercials . |
| 23 | At this rate they would both need no less a person than the pope ! |
| 24 | No less a person that the Director of the US Civil Rights Commission has called equal pay for work of equal value ‘ the looniest idea since Looney Tunes ’ . |
| 25 | Worse was to come when no less a person than Khomeini called for their execution should the deed prove to be deliberate . |
| 26 | ‘ The Lady Margaret was appointed Regent by no less a person than her late husband in his will . |