Example sentences of "if a person be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if a person 's paid employment lasts for forty years , she will need to have thirty-six qualifying years . |
| 2 | An example of 4.3C would be if a person 's withdrawn , defensive personality made it difficult for her to establish close friendships , and if those same characteristics of personality , rather than her lack of friendships , made her prone to depression . |
| 3 | As long ago as Plato it was believed , ‘ if a person be guilty of impiety let him be punished with death . ’ |
| 4 | If a person is to carry out the AL of maintaining a safe environment , many of the recognised biological systems are involved . |
| 5 | If a person is not susceptible to an illness then he ( or she ) simply will not develop it . |
| 6 | For example , if a person is being asked about her educational background one interviewer could encourage her to talk about the criticisms she could offer of it , while another interviewer could concentrate on the benefits she received from it . |
| 7 | If a person is drowsy or unconscious : |
| 8 | If a person is ‘ torn ’ between opinions , unable to ‘ make up ’ his mind , or if he is ‘ up in the air ’ over something and unsure which side he should ‘ come down on ’ , or if he is furiously ‘ debating ’ with himself or ‘ hanging back ’ , or weighing up his ‘ reservations ’ , he is nothing if not ‘ in two minds ’ . |
| 9 | If a person is faced with prosecution , he is entitled to remain silent and to avoid cross-examination . |
| 10 | The Judaeo-Christian tradition regards cannibalism as a sin , but other major religions beg to disagree , on the grounds that , if a person is dead already , the consumption of his or her body is not going to make much difference . |
| 11 | If a person is an animal , then by transitivity a student is an animal . |
| 12 | IF a person is found guilty of crimes against an individual or his family , the aggrieved family has the right to retaliate . |
| 13 | For instance , if a person is shown two differing views successively , then one off our phenomenologically distinct perceptions may arise . |
| 14 | I would say from personal experience that the most debilitating stress is the stress brought about by fellow staff , particularly if a person is living in the residential situation . |
| 15 | Similarly , if a person is able to accept supervision , how can it be argued that they are not able to consent to the medical arrangements given during it ? |
| 16 | Thus , if a person is given a drug which gets rid of any resistance he/she might have had to being taken into captivity , then , in a very strong sense , his/her autonomy has been violated . |
| 17 | A particular sort of slavery , what we might call moral slavery , occurs if a person is forced to act according to someone else 's moral values . |
| 18 | Thus autonomy is lost or renounced either if someone is coerced into thinking/acting against their will , or if a person is treated perhaps willingly — as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires or ends . |
| 19 | If a person is prevented from doing what they would otherwise intend or desire to do , or if they are coerced into doing what they would not otherwise want or desire to do , they are not acting autonomously . |
| 20 | ( d ) If a person is voluntarily helping the police , that person is entitled to terminate the interview and leave at any time . |
| 21 | If a person is searched in public he can not be required to remove anything other than his coat , jacket or gloves . |
| 22 | If a person is detained irregularly or his property or person searched without lawful authority , he has the following remedies : 1 . |
| 23 | If a person is unlawfully restrained he is entitled to use reasonable force to effect his escape ( Kenlin v. Gardner ( H.C. , 1967 ) ) . |
| 24 | Now if you know that somebody is a drug addict and they 've just had an injection you keep away from them , erm if they 're having a bad trip , whatever they call it , because you do n't , they become very violent , they can do a lot of damage , now the only time you will step in and help is when they go unconscious , but at the same time remember protect yourself , we 're talking about needles here and probably shared needles , you must be terribly careful that you do not get pricked by a needle , especially if , they have a habit of sticking needles under lapels , so always be aware of this , if a person is a drug addict , in fact if you can find some easier way of turning them into the recovery position , do so , erm , you can then obviously either call the ambulance . |
| 25 | But if a person is injured , then the ultimate inquiry to be made is whether or not the injury was a reasonable and probable consequence of the act of carelessness , and whether or not the defaulter should have reasonably anticipated that a class of persons , of which the plaintiff was one , might be affected by his careless act . |
| 26 | The applicable law , if a person is accused of committing a crime in this country , is to be found in section 6(1) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , which provides that : |
| 27 | If a person is rightly charged with larceny , but the jury in reliance on section 44(3) mistakenly convict him of obtaining by false pretences , the Court of Criminal Appeal can not substitute a verdict of guilty of larceny under section 5(2) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907 ; for the verdict implies an acquittal of larceny , so that it can not ‘ [ appear ] to the Court of Criminal Appeal that the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of [ larceny ] ’ ( Rex v. Fisher ( 1921 ) 16 Cr.App.R. 53 ) . |
| 28 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 29 | Sickness benefit is payable for up to twenty-eight weeks if a person is incapacitated for work at the rate of£33.20 a week , together with £20.55 for an adult dependant . |
| 30 | If a person is suffering from a fairly severe mental disorder and has close friends or relatives who sympathize , encourage early treatment and make full rehabilitation possible by providing a tolerant but secure home after hospitalization , then the person has a fair chance of ultimately coping with their illness without it handicapping their general performance in life too severely . |