Example sentences of "[adj] person or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally speaking , most researchers feel that there is no harm in tape-recording ( or , for that matter , photographing ) a politician on the hustings or any other obviously public person or event . |
| 2 | Please present your confirmation slip when you report to the designated person or reception . |
| 3 | The purpose of a letter is to convey information and ideal to another person or persons . |
| 4 | It is given by someone who is directing his words or behaviour to another person or persons . |
| 5 | Political realists insist also that power is an inherently unequal relationship , comprising an attempt by one person or group to secure compliance from or enforce dependence upon another person or group ( Lukes , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | Thus we take power to be the ability of one person or group ( A ) to get another person or group ( B ) to do as A wants . |
| 7 | Power is one of a cluster of concepts that are all , concerned with the ability of one person or group to affect another person or group as expressed in our general definition of power . |
| 8 | The idea stemmed from a brief given at a training course when they were asked to work on a project " which would help another person or group of people " . |
| 9 | One recurring kind of reason against accepting the authority of one person or institution is that there is another person or institution with a better claim to be recognized as an authority . |
| 10 | More directly relevant to our case is the fact that , through the acceptance of rules setting up authorities , people can entrust judgment as to what is to be done to another person or institution which will then be bound , in accordance with the dependence thesis , to exercise its best judgment primarily on the basis of the dependent reasons appropriate to the case . |
| 11 | I never leave the station unless I witness some person or persons committing or about to commit some offences , minor or otherwise . |
| 12 | Badly drafted clauses sometimes encountered say that the expert must be acceptable to both parties , or that he is to be appointed by some person or institution acceptable to both parties . |
| 13 | Prejudice may lead us into aggressive attitudes towards some person or group . |
| 14 | This suggests that critical evaluation has point where the object in question is attributable to some person or group of persons . |
| 15 | As Lord Wilberforce pointed out , once evidence is brought out in court it is in the public domain ; unless the terms of relevant legislation or international agreements provide otherwise , there is nothing to prevent other interested persons or authorities acting upon the information thus made available . |
| 16 | She had unconsciously put into practice the Winnie the Pooh principle , which rules that the most effective method of searching for a lost person or object is to get lost oneself on the assumption that some force of nature brings all forgotten things together in ignored niches and unfrequented locales . |
| 17 | Every communication for commercial or other purposes , by those in this country , with such persons or bodies is a criminal offence ( ‘ trading with the enemy' ) , unless licensed by the Crown . |
| 18 | For several hundred years , the ‘ Debatable Land ’ was largely uninhabited and to keep it that way , in 1551 , a proclamation was issued jointly by the two nations , to the effect that : ‘ All Englishmen and Scottishmen after this proclamation is made are , and shall be , free to rob , burn , spoil , slay , murder and destroy , all and every such person or persons , their bodies , buildings , goods and cattle as do remain or shall inhabit upon any part of the said debatable land . |
| 19 | but to the extent only that the Law Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the Company or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator of any such person or body corporate . |
| 20 | but to the extent only that the Law Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the Company or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator of any such person or body corporate . |
| 21 | References may be sought from appropriate persons or bodies . |
| 22 | Undo the backnut , with a second person or piece of wedged wood stopping the tap turning . |
| 23 | This will particularly be the case when the adverse effect is upon the livelihood or the ability to earn of the second person or body . |
| 24 | I 'd love to see the reaction once you finally turn the tables on an oppressive person or group and assert some of the strength and authority you 've been holding back . |
| 25 | The United Kingdom and Belgium argue , however , that the registration of a vessel in a member state is not a conditio sine qua non of establishment in that state , since natural persons or companies are not precluded from operating vessels , even fishing vessels , for instance from the United Kingdom , in the context of operations linked to the territory of that state ; establishment in the United Kingdom in that way would be possible in respect of any vessel registered in one of the other member states . |
| 26 | He distinguished between simple power ( the ability to make one 's will prevail against the resistance of others ) , domination ( or Herr-schaft : enduring power associated with a habit of obedience on the part of the subordinate person or group ) , and legitimacy ( power which exists and endures because those subject to it believe it is morally right to obey ) . |
| 27 | The argument for this as-if strategy is straightforward enough : civilization is impossible unless the decisions of some well-defined person or group are accepted by everyone as setting public standards that will be enforced if necessary through the police power . |
| 28 | For the ‘ dogmatic dialectic ’ , as he describes dialectical materialism , the whole question naturally poses no problem , for each person or group simply constitutes a partial moment of an already operative movement of totalization that produces them and then goes beyond them . |
| 29 | We all believe in political fairness : we accept that each person or group in the community should have a roughly equal share of control over the decisions made by Parliament or Congress or the state legislature . |
| 30 | Standing orders and direct debits are both ways of authorising the payment of regular sums from your current account to a specifically maned person or organisation . |