Example sentences of "[vb infin] [subord] a person " in BNC.
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| 1 | For what a horse does under compulsion … he does without understanding , and with no more grace than a dancer would display if a person should whip and spur him during his performance … |
| 2 | It does not matter where a person dies ; it matters only why they die . |
| 3 | Does it matter if a person derives some kind of sexual satisfaction from an act which most people or ‘ right-minded persons ’ would not regard as indecent ? |
| 4 | If you 've got that standard you can then identify whether a person is below standard or |
| 5 | Another form of inauthenticity may occur when a person lives largely at the level of practical consciousness , in which routines defend against the anxieties which life itself engenders , and fresh desires are seldom asserted . |
| 6 | This provision does not apply where a person has been previously bankrupt in the last fifteen years ( s 279(1) ) . |
| 7 | The Act will only apply where a person has suffered damage . |
| 8 | The term abandoned is not defined in the Act but it will clearly apply where a person caring for a child has left without indicating his intention to return or making arrangements for the child 's care in his absence . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've seen what can happen when a person loses their heart — and their freedom — to someone else . ’ |
| 10 | In Malone , Sir Robert Megarry held that an action for breach of confidence does not lie where a person utters confidential information which is overheard by a third party . |