Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a person " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence is mounting against the received wisdom that interfering with a person 's cholesterol intake can reliably alter his or her destiny . |
| 2 | This is a very brief overview of some of the aspects of Homoeopathy and a view of the world which may help to shed a little light on what is happening with a person 's health . |
| 3 | Locality , class , race and gender are central in serious crime happening to a person . |
| 4 | I understand why hon. Members paused for thought when they first read the draft immigration rule relating to a person arriving with no papers . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing in section 4 ( 1 ) above shall affect the determination of any issue , or prevent the admission or requirement of any evidence , relating to a person 's previous convictions or to circumstances ancillary thereto — |
| 6 | He or she will not be responsible for hearing appeals on matters of law relating to a person 's tax liabilities , or for property valuation appeals ; those will continue to be the responsibility of the independent general and special commissioners for tax and the relevant tribunals for valuation matters . |
| 7 | One normally thinks in terms of the 3 year rule as applying to a person who emigrates from the United Kingdom whilst one considers that the 17 year rule is applicable to someone who becomes resident in the United Kingdom whilst retaining his overseas domicile under general principles . |
| 8 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 9 | Such an agreement is an agreement in writing between a person providing advocacy or litigation services and the client , which is not concerned with certain matrimonial and children proceedings ; provides for that person 's fees and expenses , or part of them , to be payable only in specified circumstances ; complies with any requirements imposed by the Lord Chancellor ; and is not a contentious business agreement . |
| 10 | You 'll be surprised who has got a friend or an uncle who knows somebody who knows somebody else who is looking for a person like you ! |
| 11 | Fairplay , the leading international shipping magazine , is looking for a person to fill the new position of Business Editor . |
| 12 | Merely looking for a person is not an assault : Arobieke [ 1988 ] Crim LR 314 ( CA ) . |
| 13 | Grossing these responses up suggests that at least six million adults in Britain are carers and the majority , 75 per cent , are looking after a person aged 65 and over , 1.4 million adults provide care for more than 20 hours per week and 3.7 million have sole responsibility for the care of their dependant . |
| 14 | So again can you see you have other people to consider if you 've partners , but that 's one of the difficulties of having a partner , but then again think , if you do n't have a partner , that 's worse cos you 've nobody to communicate with , nobody to shout at , nobody to organize or organize you , er nobody ready made to go out with , you 've got it all to do yourself because your number one requirement when you 're left on your own is to get the company and the activity , whereas if you , if you are er living with a person then at least a certain amount of that is ready to hand . |
| 15 | They need to understand the importance of the regular drug treatment , and they need to be supported in their efforts to deal with their own guilt , depression and daily stress of living with a person with schizophrenia . |
| 16 | Reminiscence can produce a lot more responses , because you 're tapping into a person 's past which is theirs alone . |
| 17 | Every time that sexual intercourse takes place with a new partner there is a risk that some disease will be passed on from one to the other and , with rare exceptions , there is no way of telling , by simply looking at a person , whether they have an infection or not . |
| 18 | 1.3 These Conditions shall override any contrary different or additional terms or conditions ( if any ) contained on or referred to in an order form or other documents or correspondence from the Purchaser , and no addition alteration or substitution of these terms will bind the Seller or form part of any Order unless they are expressly accepted in writing by a person authorised to sign on the Seller 's behalf . |
| 19 | 1.1 No addition alteration or substitution of these terms will bind us or form part of any contract unless they are expressly accepted in writing by a person authorised to sign on our behalf . |
| 20 | The Wentwood experience as described in this monograph has much to commend it as a means of enabling people with quite severe learning disabilities to take their part in ‘ normal ’ middle class life ; but as the authors themselves say , ‘ We will not succeed in this ( developing potential for growing as a person ) by concentrating on making people better functioning conglomerates of various skills only ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ You have n't been sounding like a person who 's feeling better , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 22 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 23 | The appreciation of learning : including its life-long nature striving for a person 's full potential , self-discipline , independent thinking and aesthetic sensitivity , as well as respect for other cultures and freedom of expression . |
| 24 | We can , then , apply his metaphor to our studies : ‘ Thus the ‘ magic circles ’ pivot , shifting as a person moves from one place in society to another . ’ |
| 25 | After a decade of being made to feel that you were somehow lacking as a person if you did n't manage to cram thrice-weekly workouts into your schedule , it was high time that a good reason not to exercise emerged . |
| 26 | I mean I 'm speaking as a political animal because I watch all the television , I mean I take my wireless to bed and listen to the actually I was listening to the wireless at erm half past eleven when they started it , so I 'm not speaking as a person that sort of does n't watch or listen to the Gulf business , but I think it 's erm on too much . |
| 27 | He may have had a sixth sense about the presence of some stranger in the house ; more likely he saw some physical evidence — a coat , a hat — belonging to a person he knew . |
| 28 | Control is obtained by allocating ownership of space depending upon a person 's position in the organizational structure , allowing that person to change details only in his own space . |
| 29 | It is n't easy coping with a person who is twice your age and beset by problems you have no hope of being able to understand . |
| 30 | This desire to discover can take several different forms , depending on a person 's range of knowledge . |