Example sentences of "[noun] of a person [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objective is to transform instincts and desires in such a way that they can be fitted to the overall goals of a person 's deliberative life . |
| 2 | All the above types of violation of a person 's autonomy involve what Kant described as treating the person as a means to someone else 's end , and not as an end in themselves . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You 're just looking to see if there are any aspects of a person 's drive where , you know , one or two habits might have crept in which could possibly encroach upon safety margins to some extent . |
| 6 | Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history . |
| 7 | I would argue , however , that love-making ought not to be treated as drawing only on the irrational side of a person 's nature . |
| 8 | Notions of ritual celebration can also be invoked to override the effect of a person 's lack of respect towards the police . |
| 9 | The scientific prediction of a person 's limitations , and thus his possible fate , has a very dangerous component in that it may lead the individual to inaction and despair . |
| 10 | The unskilled or raw immigrants from the countryside were proud of their strength , and came from an environment where hard labour was the criterion of a person 's worth and wives were chosen not for their looks but for their work-potential . |
| 11 | An example would be where the firm is carrying out one exercise , which then prompts the idea of another exercise as an integral part of the first service ( eg a review of a person 's CGT position leads to advice being given on an appropriate pension policy ) . |
| 12 | Relatively informal activities , such as ‘ napping ’ and casual encounters , the undergrowth of a person 's day , can not easily be got at by interview . ’ |
| 13 | The equation of a person 's worth , both morally and socially , with their ability to be eloquent is found iterated both implicitly and explicitly throughout the period . |
| 14 | Carry out those activities involved when conducting the comprehensive assessment of a person 's nursing requirements . |
| 15 | Heartwatch offers an assessment of a person 's risk from heart disease and general health and fitness checks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The interpretation became part of a person 's experience . |
| 21 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 22 | The sound of his or her own voice is in a similar way an important part of a person 's self-image . |
| 23 | Sexual penetration is defined as ‘ sexual intercourse , cunnilingus , fellatio , anal intercourse or any other intrusion , however slight , of any part of a person 's body or of any object into the genital or anal openings of another person 's body . ’ |
| 24 | They also identify the concept of patterning care to take advantage of a person 's routine to send in a helper ‘ when it gets dark ’ to prepare a light meal before bed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The measure of a person 's total control over his native language . |
| 27 | Less broadly than this , it can be used to refer to a disenchantment from more specific areas of a person 's life , such as his/her work , or from politics , or from religion , and so on . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | After a series of experiences that are construed in those terms , the cumulative effect may be an assault on the core of a person 's self-image and self-respect that is lasting and pervasive . |
| 30 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |