Example sentences of "[adv] a person " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Prince ’ is not so much a person as a persona , a space , in which he can become anything he or we want him to be . |
| 2 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 3 | Raine Spencer is not so much a person but a phenomenon . |
| 4 | Basically a person 's own spiritual propensity is to be encouraged whether similar to or different from one 's own . |
| 5 | No-one can predict how long a person will live . |
| 6 | Lucien could not endure the thought of appearing barefaced in front of a stranger , especially a person of great status . |
| 7 | He and Jenny were sufficient for each other ; they did not want a third person , especially a person whose tastes were so dissimilar and who did not fit in with their lives or their friends . |
| 8 | But naturally a person who already has these qualifications starts with an advantage . |
| 9 | Instead of a faceless figure behind the scenes , he was obviously a person who counted . |
| 10 | Obviously a person who has spent all their life avoiding such situations will never have had the opportunity to learn about the plateau stage and the gradual fading away of anxiety . |
| 11 | Obviously a person who first acquired consumer goods as a businessman , and then chose to put them into consumer use for his own private uses could take advantage of this section . |
| 12 | Oh , I said to him look I said she obviously a person that takes no notice , but she lives out in the country . |
| 13 | At one stage no less a person than Bobby Kennedy , soon to accompany Josie to the grave , had offered to help Roth gain his freedom . |
| 14 | In November the Smolensk guberniia executive committee is being rebuked in turn by no less a person than V. Molotov , Secretary of the Central Committee in Moscow , for allowing subordinates to impose taxes beyond those laid down in the All-Union list . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the very fact that no less a person than the prime Minister speaks in such a way is a confession that green issues have intruded upon political life to such an extent that they can no longer be ignored ! |
| 16 | Many were amazed that the war against Bolshevism was already more or less over , but no less a person than the Führer himself had again lent support to such notions with his proclamation to the soldiers on the eastern Front on 2 October , in which he spoke of ‘ the last mighty blow to smash the enemy even before the onset of winter ’ . |
| 17 | On the other hand , in 1806 no less a person than James Clark , farrier to the King in Scotland , in his First Lines of Veterinary Physiology and Pathology wrote that the healing art , and the art of shoeing , would and should necessarily continue as two linked aspects of a country veterinary practitioner 's work . |
| 18 | This may seem a somewhat fanciful proposition , but no less a person than Chomsky has suggested such a possibility . |
| 19 | No less a person than Firth , not someone , one supposes , who would have rejected all learning in favour of the bottle , observes that grammarians ‘ make regular use of nonsense ’ . |
| 20 | During this time he earned a reputation as an intrepid aerial adventurer , in whom no less a person than King George III took a special interest in his ballooning exploits . |
| 21 | In the plenary session which he addressed , Sir James discreetly avoided the question ( conveyed by no less a person that the Aga Khan ) about which British companies he rated in environmental terms . |
| 22 | Seamen felt themselves constantly under attack from the press , particularly that presided over by Lord Northcliffe , who had given up the conscription campaign , but continued to blacken the character of merchant sailors and firemen , while in other circles they were being lauded for their valour by no less a person than Admiral Sir John Jellicoe himself . |
| 23 | That idea had come from no less a person than the famous Sylvia Grey — who could sing , dance and play the piano , divinely . |
| 24 | Particularly annoyed was the CGLI which said that the DES statement had included ‘ some unwarranted and damaging remarks about the Institute ’ , a gaffe for which it received an apology from no less a person than the Permanent Secretary . |
| 25 | No less a person than Gloria Estefan rang my startled publisher before leaving London , to order the Ology book , because she was crazy for the commercials . |
| 26 | At this rate they would both need no less a person than the pope ! |
| 27 | No less a person that the Director of the US Civil Rights Commission has called equal pay for work of equal value ‘ the looniest idea since Looney Tunes ’ . |
| 28 | Worse was to come when no less a person than Khomeini called for their execution should the deed prove to be deliberate . |
| 29 | ‘ The Lady Margaret was appointed Regent by no less a person than her late husband in his will . |
| 30 | This is a particular case of a general rule about Greenaway 's films : that only a person as obsessionally preoccupied with formal patterns as the director — and that is a tall order — can properly share his shock when death turns out not to be deterred by lists and games after all . |