Example sentences of "[num] person 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case one person 's typecasting is n't always another 's . |
| 2 | One person 's meat may be another person 's poison . |
| 3 | The sessions were held in the schoolroom and three nurses , in rippling saris , stood at the front of the room and demonstrated , with the use of pictures and a dummy , how intestinal worms and diseases are spread by eggs and germs that pass from one person 's faeces to another person 's mouth . |
| 4 | ‘ It would be better to ask young people to show what they could do against explicit criteria so that the challenge would be between the person and the task , not between individuals , with one person 's success being another 's failure , ’ the report says . |
| 5 | There are stories of cruelty heaped upon Clift by Huston during the making of Freud , and when weighing up one person 's story against another 's you start wondering just who was the worse rogue . |
| 6 | Consumption externalities imply that one person 's decisions affect another consumer 's utility directly , as when one person 's garden gives pleasure to the neighbours . |
| 7 | What they have in common is that one person 's actions have direct costs or benefits for other people which that individual does not take into account . |
| 8 | All the themes are interlinked and condensed into one person 's life and his surroundings . |
| 9 | Two days later , we all suffered again for one person 's misdemeanour . |
| 10 | No consideration is given to the fact that actually society is everything — that one person 's effort may bring reward to someone else ; that one person 's mistake can bring disaster to another . |
| 11 | The personal , ‘ background ’ characteristics that make one person 's voice recognisably different from another . |
| 12 | It should condemn behaviour which is exploitative , violent , and/or involves the violation of one person 's liberty by another . ’ |
| 13 | We are all the sum of our experiences , and one person 's interpretation of what you say will be very different from that of another . |
| 14 | The nature of a region is interpreted individually , therefore , but as an historically-created entity it is more than just one person 's interpretation . |
| 15 | History is one person 's interpretation of events . |
| 16 | A pure public good is a good for which one person 's consumption does not reduce the quantity available for consumption by others . |
| 17 | Poverty changes the meaning of key words — one person 's credit becomes another person 's debt . |
| 18 | One person 's unfaithfulness is a manifestation of that conflict . |
| 19 | One person 's usage may be another |
| 20 | There is less likelihood of one person 's prejudices or tendency to interview in his/her own likeness affecting the outcome . |
| 21 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |
| 22 | FIGURE 3 The pattern of one person 's day before and after transfer : engagement , help , and other contact from staff |
| 23 | This is all the more annoying when one person 's attack was n't valid anyway because it missed the scoring area , or was otherwise unacceptable . |
| 24 | The problem of drawing a legal line between moral outrage and individual freedom has become intractable at a time when one person 's obscenity is another person 's bedtime reading . |
| 25 | These results come from a wide variety of sources , ranging from laboratory experiments using electric shocks to analyses of one person 's memory over a number of years , from experimental subjects ’ memories of autopsy slides to normal people 's memory for hearing about Kennedy 's assassination . |
| 26 | Of course not all teachers will recognize themselves , and probably no one person 's experience will match point for point with the sketch that I shall give . |
| 27 | All too often advice is taken as being definitive when in truth it is cased only on one person 's experience , or a particular way of working . |
| 28 | It was one person 's word against another . |
| 29 | For example , one person 's faith may be a genuine trust in God but also a trust in certain Christian friends , while another person has truly committed himself to God and also to the care of a Christian community . |
| 30 | ‘ . You 'd all at least have seen the same thing and not getting one person 's narrative of what happened across the school last week . |