Example sentences of "person who be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Flockhart v. Robinson Lord Goddard C.J. said that it is ‘ not a mere body of persons ; it is a body of persons who are moving along a route . ’ |
| 2 | If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional . |
| 3 | Criminal and civil liability under Part II of the Consumer Protection Act attaches only to persons who are acting ‘ in the course of carrying on a business . ’ |
| 4 | The obligation to make a mandatory offer attaches to the principal member or members of the group of persons who are acting in concert and who obtain or consolidate control ; it does not attach to the company itself . |
| 5 | The essence of riot is the use of unlawful violence by two or more persons in a group of at least twelve persons who are using or threatening violence . |
| 6 | The essence of violent disorder ( section 2 ) is the use or threat of unlawful violence in a group of at least three persons who are using or threatening violence . |
| 7 | I think that the church has the responsibility to continue to find new and innovative ways of reaching out and doing a better job and that is er testimony to the fact that we can continue to reach out to persons who are suffering in many ways , and I would appreciate and look forward to learning better from you how to do that and would be happy to share . |
| 8 | This can sometimes be sensed in elderly persons who are approaching the end . |
| 9 | But they have a right within the law to carry out , to check all persons who are offering help in caring . |
| 10 | As sections 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 implicitly recognise , these are powers of considerable constitutional significance , since they involve the imposition of conditions on persons who are engaging in otherwise perfectly lawful behaviour . |
| 11 | We have seen that it is communication with another person who is experiencing some kind of emotional trouble , or acting under stress in some way . |
| 12 | The pronoun I would thus be rendered " the person who is experiencing this " ( for severe difficulties with such a view , see Gale , 1968 ) . |
| 13 | May I meet the person who is leaving ? |
| 14 | A person who is displaying an offensive banner in his front window so that it is visible to all the world clearly ‘ displays ’ within section 18 even if not under section 4 . |
| 15 | Comment : Very useful device when you want to ingratiate yourself with another person who is trying hard to play high status . |
| 16 | That is why his canonisation of the equally versatile Jeff Koons — ‘ a person who is trying to lead art into the twenty-first century ’ — carries such conviction . |
| 17 | They convey to someone who belongs to the same culture a lot of information about the person who is wearing or carrying them . |
| 18 | Whether we like it or not , clothes make a statement about the person who is wearing them . |
| 19 | Most of the problems in this area have now been resolved by the requirement that undertakings by a company not to create subsequent charges having priority to an existing charge have to be registered in the company 's register of charges and this will constitute notice to any person who is taking a charge which also has to be registered . |
| 20 | You see , I have been searching the moors with my telescope , and although I have not actually seen the prisoner , I have seen the person who is taking him food . ’ |
| 21 | But primitive man guards himself against that by listening in to the being of the person who is uttering the words and by adding this to his evaluation of the words . |
| 22 | Reichenbach argued , also in support of ( a ) and with an ultimate view to ( b ) , that all indexicals involve an element of token-reflexivity , i.e. refer to themselves , so that , for example , I means " the person who is uttering this token of the word I " . |
| 23 | If we do n't get a fire situation the person who is operating the piece of electric equipment is quite likely to get an electrical shock . |
| 24 | The Vatican spokesman , Mr Joacquin Novarro-Vallas , in Rome yesterday denounced the US siege tactics , and said ‘ an occupying power can not interfere with the work of a diplomatic mission or demand that a person who is seeking asylum there be handed over to it ’ . |
| 25 | This is usually the same as the person who is sending the message , but not always , as in the case of messengers , spokespeople , and town criers . |
| 26 | So far as the mechanisms for enforcing the rules of conduct are concerned , section 18(2) of the Act requires that any person who is exercising any of the functions conferred by Part II of the Act with respect to any of the matters described in section 18(1) , the granting of rights or audience etc. , must act in accordance with the general principle mentioned in section 17(3) . |
| 27 | ADOLESCENT — A person who is entering adolescence , the age following childhood , which is marked with puberty and followed by young adult age . |
| 28 | The person who is writing it is at a meeting so you ca n't speak to him . ’ |
| 29 | : person who is recovering from an infection |
| 30 | Sometimes it helps if the person who is holding the horse , pats the horse on the neck in exact time to the farrier hammering on its foot — especially if it is the actual hammering that worries the horse the most . |