Example sentences of "of a person [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the distribution of a person 's body-weight that is most important . |
| 2 | Notions of ritual celebration can also be invoked to override the effect of a person 's lack of respect towards the police . |
| 3 | Accepting that meals are a very important part of a person 's life-style means that their timing might have an important role in adjusting the body clock . |
| 4 | I have always felt that character is most clearly expressed in the back of a person 's head , and especially in the nape . |
| 5 | From a swift glance at the back of a person 's head I can at once estimate the intelligence and sexuality of that person . |
| 6 | That is , it is sometimes found that when there is a part of a person 's life which is difficult or impossible to control , he or she will channel the need to exercise control onto some other aspect of behaviour such as food intake . |
| 7 | Doubly authentic , because I have often observed that where , these delicate questions are concerned most listeners are more inclined than not to accept the most improbable of two or three possible explanations for the vagaries of a person 's conduct . |
| 8 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 9 | ‘ We think it is important that clothing should n't overwhelm the wearer , but that a definite sense of a person 's character be enhanced and exaggerated . |
| 10 | Although Libyans recognized that many members of tribes were ‘ written ’ , or attached in other ways , the central notion was that the loyalties and obligations which made the stateless system work were part of a person 's equipment at birth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Disguised wage work refers to work where one or more enterprises appropriate part of the product of a person 's work without the person officially being an employee of the firm . |
| 13 | The school or LEA would have to show that , for example , a requirement which affected one group more than another and which therefore resulted in indirect discrimination , was justifiable irrespective of a person 's race . |
| 14 | Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history . |
| 15 | A second consideration against allowing consent to political authority general validity turns on the undesirability of allowing the validity of consent which binds for life , is open-ended , and affects wide-ranging aspects of a person 's life . |
| 16 | First , the fundamental idea which enjoys universal validity is that morality is the free expression of a person 's rational nature . |
| 17 | This is partly because vocabulary is the most individualistic part of a person 's knowledge of language , and continues to develop throughout life , although its growth is clearly fastest in early years . |
| 18 | Since this is crucial in any discussion of a person 's right to self-determination , I pursued the question of Dr Carrington 's state of mind further with Anthony Moore . |
| 19 | In order to collect information about the dementia sufferers , a semi-structured questionnaire was devised ( see Appendix I ) for use at the time of a person 's referral , six months later , and six months after that . |
| 20 | As it shows , most people are in receipt of some services ( though they are often fairly minimal at the time of a person 's referral ) . |
| 21 | In a non-monetary economy , wealth is measured in terms of a person 's tangible possessions — cattle , camels , grain , jewellery , etc . |
| 22 | Another aspect of a person 's stay in Purgatory is mentioned in relation to question 3 ( P. 33 ) and that is ‘ temporary punishment ’ in Purgatory . |
| 23 | One way is to relieve pressure on the sensitive points by changing the distribution of a person 's weight at regular , two-hourly intervals . |
| 24 | Unless we can devise an IQ test that can be administered to an embryo in utero , there is no way of deciding what are the limits of a person 's intelligence potential . |
| 25 | Despite differences in wealth , or in occupation , Shetlanders assume that evaluations of a person 's worth should be a result of his or her behaviour , not according to what an individual ‘ has ’ or ‘ is ’ . |
| 26 | This policy does not have a fixed term , but lasts throughout the whole of a person 's life , paying out to beneficiaries after his or her death . |
| 27 | The number of days of practice needed before the patient has the courage to try and translate the visualization into action varies considerably , not only from one individual to another but even as regards the different stages of a person 's treatment . |
| 28 | It 's easy to misjudge a person , too , not understanding — and how can you , without years of intimate friendship ? — all the contradictions and complexities of a person 's character . |
| 29 | Religion is an integral part of its complex culture , and a complicated array of ceremonies and rituals cover every stage of a person 's life , from birth to death . |
| 30 | Because language is a fundamental part of being human , it is an important aspect of a person 's sense of self ; because it is a fundamental feature of any community , it is an important aspect of a person 's sense of social identity . |