Example sentences of "person who [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But they did dramatically increase the number of persons and groups of persons who recognized a bond with the crown through fidelity .
2 A person who harassed a neighbour with racist abuse would nevertheless have no defence that he was not acting in public if his words were , ( as he knew ) audible to the person next door .
3 Options will normally only be exercisable after the expiry of three years from the date of their grant by a person who remains a director or employee .
4 He was very different from the sort of person who gets a job and then a better job and promotion and a wife ; two children , a boy and a girl , a house , a better house , a car and all the rest of it .
5 Thus , a person who becomes a slave loses this opportunity .
6 Similarly , the person who has a great love of music might find blindness less of a handicap in obtaining pleasure than would the person who had a passion for football .
7 ‘ Green v. Weaver , 1 Sim. 404 is authority for the proposition that an agent or other person who undertakes a duty to the plaintiff waives the privilege against self-incrimination in respect of discovery relating to the performance of that duty . ’
8 A person who signs a document at the request of another puts into circulation a document on which , depending on its contents , others may rely .
9 ‘ a person who signs a document , and parts with it so that it may come into other hands , has a responsibility , that of the normal man of prudence , to take care what he signs , which , if neglected , prevents him from denying his liability under the document according to its tenor .
10 However , it may still be possible for a person who signs a document after a misrepresentation of its effect by an agent of the other party to argue that , regardless of authority , the other party is vicariously responsible for the agent 's misrepresentation , and that the misrepresentation prevents reliance on the signed document .
11 It therefore seems that if a person who signs a document is mistaken as to its effect as a result of the words or conduct of the other party , the signer may not be bound by its terms .
12 In MPC v Charles , above , the Lords held that a person who signs a cheque implies that his bank will be able to meet it when presented .
13 Trespass can therefore be committed by a person who digs a tunnel under land or who abuses the airspace .
14 The ‘ owner of the house ’ , the person who builds a house , and the one who has authority over servants , are all presumed male .
15 When all the items have been used , the story passes to the second person who takes a turn continuing the story using her items .
16 The enormous crime rate and the fact that the average age of a young person who takes a car is 15 are new and frightening phenomena .
17 This principle has been extended so that a person who books a holiday on behalf of others , e.g. a husband booking on behalf of himself his wife and children , may obtain damages not only for his own disappointment etc. but also for the disappointment sustained by his wife and children .
18 Following Harris ( 1975 ) 62 Cr App R 28 ( CA ) , a person who books a room at an hotel implies that he has money to pay .
19 The Problem Reporting Dialogue used by a Problem ‘ Author ’ , that is the person who identified a problem , offers the following options :
20 ‘ where it is shown to the satisfaction of a rating authority that any amount paid in respect of rates , and not recoverable apart from this section , could properly be refunded on the ground that … ( e ) the person who made a payment in respect of rates was not liable to make that payment , the rating authority may refund that amount or a part thereof .
21 Here was a person who took a faculty in another university and turned it into the most famous faculty in the land .
22 Thanks to the person who wrote a report ) I 'm amazed that you could find much to write about ) .
23 In America we met one young person who saw a picture of ours and told us he felt so happy in front of it because he did n't feel alone in the world any more .
24 The person who meant a lot to him was the Master .
25 There may be feelings of anger against the person who caused a woman to cry .
26 In practice , however , it is very likely that the person who creates a DC , and enters all the initial information about it , will be a technical assistant , who has nothing to do with the actual implementation of the DC .
27 The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner .
28 A person who sells a vehicle in the course of his trade or business is supplying the vehicle with the description attached ( Holloway v Cross [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 1112 ) .
29 Without this element , there would be no way of excluding planned revenge killings , and the argument is that they should be excluded from the defence because a person who plans a response to an affront or a wrong ought to ensure that the response conforms with the law .
30 It is said that there are exceptions to this rule and that the following persons can sue for trespass although they had not possession — ( a ) A trustee against any third person who commits a trespass to trust chattels in the hands of the beneficiary .
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