Example sentences of "a person be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can tell what a person 's like from their lines — you make your face . ’ |
| 2 | If you 've got that standard you can then identify whether a person is below standard or |
| 3 | ( 2 ) For purposes of this section a person is to be treated as obtaining property if he obtains ownership , possession or control of it , and ‘ obtain ’ includes obtaining for another or enabling another to obtain or to retain . |
| 4 | ‘ On the other hand clause 12(1) provides that ‘ a person is to be treated as obtaining property if he obtains ownership , possession or control of it … |
| 5 | By s.15(2) " … a person is to be treated as obtaining property if he obtains possession or control of it , and " obtain " includes obtaining for another or enabling another to obtain or retain " . |
| 6 | The body may also use its own lean tissue ( muscle ) as fuel when food intake is very low ( such as when a person is on a crash diet ) or when no food is taken at all . |
| 7 | Management is harder when risk factor stratification shows that a person is at increased risk but does not have a likely or predominant mechanism at which treatment can be targeted . |
| 8 | Broadly speaking , the higher a person is in the management structure , the more essential it is for him or her to be given work when it is available . |
| 9 | We suggest that the more a person is in love and the less they are able to define what it is in the other that they love , the less free is the conscious choice and the more it relates to the ‘ me in you ’ and the search for psychological wholeness through another . |
| 10 | In other words , action which is predetermined by some external constraints can not be seen in the same light as action which accords with some convention , though , on occasion , constrained action may be glossed as rule-governed in an associated account , particularly where the agency of a person is in doubt . |
| 11 | ( e ) where a person is in police detention in one police area and his arrest is sought in another area and he is taken to that area for questioning , the relevant time is : ( i ) the time of his arrival at the police station in the second area , ( ii ) the time 24 hours after he leaves the police station in the first area , whichever is the earlier . |
| 12 | I read in the ministerial journals — the Secretary of State for the Environment will certainly know about it — that the Minister of State said that , once a person is in a band , his property would be in it probably for perpetuity . |
| 13 | Such a person is in a serious bind because expressing his anger will drive away or make hostile the very people he is dependent on . |
| 14 | The question is when should a person be under a duty to compensate others for harm to their interests . |
| 15 | A person was with him . |
| 16 | Then , when I remarked it was strange that when a person was in trouble , one forgot at once any little grudge one had against them , so that bearing grudges must be only skin-deep , my friend disagreed : she thought the change of heart was because one was willing to be magnanimous when at advantage , having the upper hand . |
| 17 | One can not , in other words , argue from the premise that people may disagree as to whether a person was in fact placed in fear for their bodily safety , to the conclusion that a decision-maker can have untrammelled power to decide whether such an apprehension is indeed a constituent part of the offence at all . |
| 18 | He said that as well as your meticulous attention to detail — so important with diabetic care — you had an infallible instinct for when a person was in pain . |