Example sentences of "and a person " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eagle currently has no finance director , and a person to fill this position is being actively sought . |
| 2 | Then , indeed , existence will not need to resemble our past life , and a person can die with a vague yet justified hope . |
| 3 | Gloria had gone in and a person at a window had waved once but Dot had n't known if it was him . |
| 4 | If it is discharged and a person is injured or killed , the appropriate offence against the person can be charged . |
| 5 | One can cause grievous bodily harm by omission , and a person who does so intentionally in a case where a duty of care exists may be convicted under section 18 of the 1861 Act . |
| 6 | If , for some reason ( like recent starvation ) , a mare can not provide milk for its newborn foal , and a person should feed the foal , the mare and foal still develop deep bonds of affection providing they are kept together . |
| 7 | Mark Steyn , whose confidence in his wit is so great no amount of evidence to the contrary seems ever likely to shake it , took us on a tour of the National Humour Archive , complete with the Dawson Bequest , and a person at work on the wider socio-economic effects of Essex Girl jokes . |
| 8 | Renton also discussed the situation with Lord Whitelaw , the deputy leader of the party , who was one of its most widely respected elder statesmen and a person renowned for the loyalty he had shown to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | If the heir has sold an object under trust , and a person with knowledge [ of the trust ] has bought it , the beneficiary none the less rightly requests to be put in possession of it . |
| 10 | Questioning involves two roles : a questioner and a person questioned . |
| 11 | Likewise seeing involves a seer and a person or thing seen . |
| 12 | That some would come with very bad intentions proved the truth and a person under the assumed character of a man of rank deceived and married the unsuspecting Sally but he did not survive his villanies villanies . |
| 13 | When less dangerous , they can be owned and a person becomes a little more whole . |
| 14 | As a noun it can represent the act of intercourse ( ‘ Do you want a fuck ? ) and a person viewed in terms of intercourse ( ‘ He 's a fantastic fuck ! ’ ) . |
| 15 | Radio demands particular technical skills , and a person required a minimum standard of education before being accepted for training as a broadcaster — a standard that was progressively raised . |
| 16 | We should constantly be aware that when most people use the term ‘ mixed race ’ they do not mean a child of Indian and African parents , nor a Chinese and a person of African descent , they generally mean the child of a white person and any other person who is not white . |
| 17 | In this chapter we look at how those goals may be in conflict , and how they are affected by age , culture and a person 's job ; 1 consider how organizations attempt to motivate people by rewarding performance , and thereby rewarding those goals ; finally we look at the outcomes of goal/organization mismatch which lead to dissatisfaction , disillusionment and stress . |
| 18 | This should be followed by a job , and a person 's chances of getting a job would be enhanced by obtaining a recognised qualification . |
| 19 | As mentioned above , against these requirements would be put a claimant 's resources , and a person became eligible for supplementary benefit if their resources were less than their requirements , the difference between the two being the sum paid in Supplementary Benefit . |
| 20 | Persistence and the 15% personal interest time he could call upon kept him going until he found a potential end use and a person willing to put time and effort into developing the idea into a truly innovative and useful product . |
| 21 | ‘ 1(1) If a child is born disabled as the result of such an occurrence before its birth as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) below , and a person ( other than the child 's own mother ) is under this section answerable to the child in respect of the occurrence , the child 's disabilities are to be regarded as damage resulting from the wrongful act of that person and actionable accordingly at the suit of the child . |
| 22 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 23 | But the the erm query that 's put down on that little paper there suggested that there was a problem , and a person who was coming in with you erm followed right the way round . |
| 24 | Two applications in respect of the same premises may be heard together , even if one is by a new applicant and the other is not , Such a situation arises , for example , when the present licence-holder and a person claiming , with the owner 's consent , to be a new tenant or occupant , both lodge conflicting claims for renewal . |
| 25 | A criminal bankrupt and a person who has been subject to a previous bankruptcy can only apply for their discharge after the end of five years from the commencement of their bankruptcy ( s 280(1) ) . |
| 26 | The difficulty is that the violence referred to by the subsection must be immediate ‘ unlawful ’ violence , and a person is entitled to employ a certain amount of force in the protection of his property . |
| 27 | Throughout this Part of the Act , a sharp differentiation is made between the person who intends to stir up racial hatred , and a person who behaves in such a way that racial hatred is likely to be stirred up by his behaviour . |
| 28 | That involves two questions , what was the nature of the contract between the Nestle Co. and a person who sent 1s. 6d. plus three wrappers in acceptance of their offer , and what is meant by ‘ ordinary retail selling price ’ in this context . |
| 29 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 30 | He could never be sure ; she was alternately a person you could convince of anything , however unreasonable , and a person you could convince of nothing . |