Example sentences of "person [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes those persons may live in a different country ( as in the case of Nepal and India , for example ) , which may well create both problems and opportunities for the funding and joint cooperation of soil conservation ventures . |
| 2 | Kay mentions ideas posited by various groups such as promoting ‘ sex cards ’ certifying alleged freedom from HIV infection ; stamps or tattoos to identify HIV-infected people ; or a type of quarantine in which HIV-infected persons may live in society yet could not marry , be employed or travel ; but these have all been rejected as unenforceable or unethical or unacceptable . |
| 3 | Which I think any sensible person ought to come to , which is , that human beings are neither basically bad , evil , and anti-social , no more are they basically good , altruistic and cooperative . |
| 4 | One could wish that to celebrate this moving occasion ( for it is at least a partial farewell ) a master of verbal portraiture were at hand ; though so elusive is personality , so unlike the impression that the same person may make on different observers , we might well have no great faith in the verisimilitude of the sketch , if produced . |
| 5 | This is more likely when , for example , the difficulties concern the general aspects of a relationship , or non-specific dissatisfaction a person may experience with his current lifestyle . |
| 6 | That person may bring to it their own considerable skills and preferences but may have become inflexible and may have defined the job by their own way of doing it . |
| 7 | It has been applied to any influence one person may exert upon another , whether in speech or writing , whether by overt physical interference , whether directly in face-to-face confrontation , or anonymously through the links and influences of an institution . |
| 8 | Mr. Collins seeks to avoid this difficulty by referring to rule 7.23(1) , which provides ‘ a person may appeal to the Appeal Tribunal … against a notice under Chapter II of this Part of these Rules , ’ that is to say , against a prohibition notice . |
| 9 | The argument here is based upon the wording of rule 7.23 , which starts : ‘ A person may appeal to the Appeal Tribunal … |
| 10 | The unit of work will be the entry ( main headword ) and only one person may work on an entry at any time . |
| 11 | A person may belong to several different families during his life , and it makes little sense to regard him as changing identity on leaving or entering a nuclear family . |
| 12 | The foregoing indemnities shall be in addition to any rights that any Indemnified Person may have at common law or otherwise and shall remain in full force and effect not withstanding KPMG 's engagement hereunder may be terminated . |
| 13 | The last word on him as a person may come from Miss Weeton 's Journal , again from the letter to her brother written in September 1810 . |
| 14 | Any person may apply to the court for party status ( see Chapter 5 , 4(c) for procedure ) . |
| 15 | For example , a person may consent to his child 's staying the night with a friend only to find that his spouse has already allowed the child to do so . |
| 16 | During the waiting period that person may fade from the scene . |
| 17 | That person may sue for any trespass committed since the accrual of the right of entry . |
| 18 | The town itself is peculiarly built , so that a person may live in it for years , and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people 's quarter or even with workers , that is , so long as he confines himself to his business or pleasure walks . |
| 19 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 20 | One person must remain at the nets all the time to deal with the rabbits as they become entangled . |
| 21 | Out of this £53.40 , the older person must pay for their water rates , 20% of their community charge , heating , food , clothing and all other essential spending . |
| 22 | Each person on the register will be given a renewal date ( 31st October in each year ( by which that person must apply for the registration to be renewed . |
| 23 | Where the person under disability wishes to be a plaintiff or applicant , before commencing proceedings , if he is a mental patient and a person is authorised by order of the Court of Protection to conduct the proceedings , then that person must file in the court office a sealed office copy of the Court of Protection 's order ( Ord 10 , r 2(a) ) . |
| 24 | The absence of individual marriages led Morgan to the view that in such a society a person must belong to the gens of the mother , not the gens of the father , because with such a system of marriage you could never be sure who your father was . |
| 25 | The terrorist might say that he gave sufficient warning of the bomb for the area to be cleared , and that it was unforeseeable that a deaf person should remain on the premises and be killed in the explosion , which was intended only to cause damage . |
| 26 | The M.T.A. by its constitution had a power to put on a stop list the name of a member or person who infringed its rule forbidding the sale of articles at other than the list prices relevant thereto unless such person should pay to the Association a fine within limits to be laid down by the Council of the Association . |
| 27 | In Scotland , once sentence is passed by the court , the prison service takes over , deciding which type of prison the convicted person should go to . |
| 28 | The family , as Josephine Butler put it , was in accordance with the law of God , and the claim that every person should live in accord with their instincts was a departure from ‘ the sternness of the moral law ’ . |
| 29 | Those readers who would like to learn more about the art of collecting debts in person should look at Taking Your Own Case to Court or Tribunal by Edith Rudinger , from the Consumers ' Association . |
| 30 | One person may need a lot of help in dressing , or with moving about , another may suffer from incontinence which needs to be managed , a third person might benefit from exercises , physiotherapy or mental stimulation . |