Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a person [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't see why it should be any different if a person loses a brain function . ’ |
| 2 | But education , like medicine , is only useful when a person needs it , and the people here do n't need it . |
| 3 | Observation of operator performance within many high technology systems reveals nothing more than a person sitting at a desk scanning various kinds of displays at intervals and just occasionally picking up a telephone , making a note in a log-book or manipulating a control . |
| 4 | Because if you eat a regular high carbohydrate diet then your BMR is likely to be higher than a person eating a high fat diet . |
| 5 | It is necessary that a person supplied a defective product for there to be liability and this supply must be in the course of a business . |
| 6 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 7 | With the help of 106 pairs of identical twins , Dr Colin Johnston and colleagues at King 's College Hospital and st Bartholomew 's Hospital in London showed that the risk of developing diabetes is far greater if a person has both DR3 and DR4 than if he or she has either antigen alone ( British Medical Journal , p 286 , vol 253 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ If , on the application of the Secretary of State , the court is satisfied that a person has entered into any transaction in contravention of section 3 above the court may order that person and any other person who appears to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court may direct for restoring the parties to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |
| 9 | ‘ If , on the application of the Secretary of State , the court is satisfied that a person has entered into any transaction in contravention of section 3 above the court may order that person and any other person who appears to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court may direct for restoring the parties to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |