Example sentences of "of a person [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be a particular smell , a particular melody or a brief glimpse of a person resembling one of the actors in an event which is then recalled . |
| 2 | Perhaps it takes an artist 's eye as well ; the cultivation of a quiet receptivity to the essence of a person beaming out like light from the chinks in the defences we all construct to protect ourselves . |
| 3 | Here are set out for the benefit of a person intending to become a candidate a few of the many matters which must be complied with in order that the candidature shall be declared valid by the returning officer . |
| 4 | In favour of a person dealing with a company in good faith , the power of the board of directors to bind the company or to authorize others to do so is deemed to be free from any limitations under the company 's constitution ( i.e. memorandum of association ) . |
| 5 | One such indication is the readiness with which some philosophers talk of a person locating a pain in another person 's body , or in an article of furniture . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 7 | 306 , the Court of Appeal had held that a trade association which by its constitution had power to put the name of a person infringing its rules on a stop list , could instead lawfully ask the person concerned to make a money payment by way of compromise . |
| 8 | Induction is a final but important step that is often neglected , falling between the end of the selection process and the beginning of a person taking up their new role . |
| 9 | It is nonsense to speak of a person inferring what he himself means . |
| 10 | Instead of a person looking across the room to the door there is a groping in the dark so that a painstaking progress is made towards the door through constant reference to each piece of furniture . |
| 11 | For example , at any one time , 1 household in every 3 contains a dependent child , 1 in 5 consists of a person living alone , 1 in 4 is a childless married couple , 3 in 10 are married couples with dependent children , and 1 in 10 contains one or more people over retirement age . |
| 12 | In such a case he would be bound to take the woman as he found her , if sued by her , and her pregnancy would be just as much a a physical condition in his victim as would be the case of a person having an eggshell skull . |
| 13 | The doctor , for instance , stated : ‘ I use the World Health Organisation classification of impairment , disability and handicap , and handicap is the social effect of the disadvantage suffered because of a person having disability which means a loss or an alteration of function due to impairment . ’ |
| 14 | Good presentation : dress standards of a person working at the highest levels of large corporations . |
| 15 | But Aunt Emmy I , you know , I know she 's in , you , in daylight you can just see a , a shape of a person standing there , yes . |
| 16 | Clearly , a large part of the job of a person making a submission to the court is to ‘ know ’ the judge , to try to predict what the judge does and does not want to hear and so on . |
| 17 | ( In comparison , the risk of a person dying in a traffic accident is 1 in 10,000 , and the risk of dying in a fire or a gas explosion at home is 1 in 1,000,000 . ) |
| 18 | is not a vehicle to which the Motor Vehicles ( Type Approval ) ( Great Britain ) Regulations 1979 applies but which is being driven from premises of the manufacturer by whom it was made , or of a distributor of vehicles or dealer in vehicles , to premises of a distributor of or dealer in vehicles of the purchasers of the vehicle , or to premises of a person obtaining possession of the vehicle under a hiring agreement or hire-purchase agreement . |
| 19 | Symptoms are changes from the normal state of a person occurring at any level of his being and would range from changes of mood or behaviour to physical things like pains , temperature reactions , colour changes , sweats etc . |
| 20 | Their stooping posture was of a person melting down , slumping into the stance of a vicious carnivore . |
| 21 | It does not require much imagination on the part of a person contemplating , on the one hand the evolutionary product that is the marvellous human body , and on the other hand the mess that is religious history , to bring his agreement with this . |
| 22 | Wills J. observed , at p. 639 , that the case was simply the ordinary one of a person raising a contention when a demand was made of him , which was not sufficient to constitute duress . |
| 23 | You would just see one end of a person lying on it . |
| 24 | In the case of a person missing ten years before who had never been reported missing , what hope was there now of establishing identity ? |
| 25 | A local authority or child care agency will not be compelled to disclose the identity of a person giving information about child abuse ( D v NSPCC [ 1978 ] AC 171 ) . |
| 26 | No , compared to the weight of rock in the cliff , the , the extra weight of a person walking along the clifftop is , is minimal . |
| 27 | There would therefore be no chance of a person claiming part of the value of their benefits , knowing that , at a later stage , he or she could have the difference made up from means-tested assistance . |
| 28 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 29 | So the silhouette of the Dalek actually came directly from the shape of a person sitting down in a chair . |
| 30 | Thus in ( 162 ) one gets the impression of a person laughing against his own will , because of some external coercion . |