Example sentences of "person who [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 2 | He is not the sort of person who sits on the sidelines giving instructions . |
| 3 | A lifetime 's habit of apologising to the person who treads on one 's toe is hard to break ; and ( in common with most middle- aged and middle-class women ) I have hardly ever encountered overt hostility from strangers , and never been ‘ chucked out ’ before . |
| 4 | However in the light of the subsequent prosecution appeal to the House of Lords and the doubt discussed above concerning whether the non-certified points of appeal could have been raised there , B's position was tantamount to a person who loses on the one point of appeal judicially addressed and who is given no answer to his remaining points of appeal . |
| 5 | Common sense suggests that a person who submits to an act only because he believes that otherwise he will be over-powered and have it done to him anyway does not consent in law , even though the force necessary to overpower him will be small and non-injurious . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 8 | If he gives , and intends to give , that power , and the power is exercised , the person who takes under the execution of the power obtains the property , not against , but by the authority of , the original owner , and none the less because the authority was obtained by fraud . ’ |
| 9 | The person who emerges from such treatment is usually superficially , and often on close examination , convincing in the new sex role . |
| 10 | The reason is that heads of chambers are not required to notify vacant tenancies to a central office , so that there can be fair competition for them ; the tenancy is given to the person who happens to be on the spot and who is acceptable , or to a relative of the head of chambers , or otherwise by favour . |
| 11 | There is one other significant point to be remembered , and that is that the person who suffers from what appears to be an illogical fear always feels that he or she is stupid . |
| 12 | But whereas neurosis is , in a sense , a private affair , affecting mainly the person who suffers from it , delinquency and acting-out of neurotic conflicts are much more the concern of society as a whole and are certainly likely to affect others to a greater degree than is normally true of the symptoms of a conventional neurosis . |
| 13 | Leader catechist — the person who presents to the whole group the symbol , the teaching ( catechesis ) of the session , the sacred experience and the Word of God . |
| 14 | he is able to maintain that the person who participates in war should strive to free both himself and the world from war . |
| 15 | arrangements with a view to a person who participates in the arrangements buying , selling , subscribing for or underwriting investments . |
| 16 | I find it very hard to understand that if a person who admits to having raped a person can get away with it . |
| 17 | Yet in the army , a person who admits to having raped a married woman whilst her husband was fighting to preserve peace can get away with it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The person who graduates from television 's school , then , is someone who has little imagination and few skills in logical analysis and critical discussion ; they have a marked preference for images rather than reality ; and a deep and increasing commitment to just one activity : watching television . |
| 20 | ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning . |
| 21 | In both cases , a strong sense of shame is combined with the arrogance of a person who insists on suffering more than anyone else , and justifies such action by invoking the name of Christ . |
| 22 | I 'm sure she 's not the only person who feels like this . |
| 23 | It may be , then , that there is a distinction between the two cases and that , notwithstanding the later doubts expressed in Hills v. Ellis , Willmott v. Atack should be taken to stand for the proposition that a person who interferes with the police intending to help them is not guilty of a wilful obstruction . |
| 24 | Belief … may be said to be the state of mind of a person who says to himself : " I can not say I know for certain that these goods are stolen , but there can be no other reasonable conclusion in the light of circumstances … |
| 25 | A labouring person who aspires to a better and more rewarding life is judged to be grossly deceived . |
| 26 | There is no doubting the substantial culpability of the person who embarks on a course of conduct knowing that there is a risk of death to another ( e.g. the man who administered chloroform in Pike ) , and the person who foresees the risk of really serious harm to another from the course of conduct being pursued . |
| 27 | There is an immediate paradox here though : attempted murder may not involve the infliction of any harm at all , since a person who shoots at another and misses may still be held guilty of attempted murder . |
| 28 | Registration has to be done very shortly after the death itself , so the person who goes to the office to do this finds himself alongside people who are celebrating the birth of a baby , or registering a marriage . |
| 29 | ‘ Could it be the same person who goes to the house to pick up the post ? ’ |
| 30 | For example if you go on an overland trip trekking in erm South America , you 're clearly looking for something totally different than the person who goes on the sort of typical Club Eighteen to Thirty type holiday . |