Example sentences of "person [Wh pn] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Wills Act 1968 provides that if a will is already duly executed with two other qualified witnesses , the attestation of any person who would have been caught by this rule must be disregarded . |
| 2 | Since the will is usually the only evidence the testator has left of his intentions , where doubts and ambivalences occur they must be resolved without recourse to the person who would have been best qualified to explain them . |
| 3 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |
| 4 | Later , the presence , or even the existence , of the people we care about may not be necessary for their influence to apply , for we may retain the desire to be the kind of person who would have won their affection and approval . |
| 5 | ‘ Zoser does n't strike me as the sort of person who would have contacts . ’ |
| 6 | In this first type of exclamation , the impression then is that the person who would have been evoked as the subject if the verb were in a finite form is represented as somehow before the infinitive event . |
| 7 | Section 1(1) provides that if death is caused by any wrongful act , neglect or default which is such as would ( if death had not ensued ) have entitled the person injured to maintain an action and recover damages , the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued is liable to an action for damages , notwithstanding the death of the person injured . |
| 8 | He had been dimly aware of the sound of an approaching car , and there was only one person who would have bothered to seek him out . |
| 9 | The human suffering which results from an accident can be severe and can result in some form of life-long disablement or disfigurement for the victim , not forgetting the stress and guilt which is borne by the person who may have had some responsibility for the accident occurring . |
| 10 | Fitted carpets , though warm , are not a good idea for the bathroom and lavatory of an elderly person who may have minor ‘ mishaps ’ and spillages which they can not easily deal with as they advance into old age . |
| 11 | The employee would not , for six months after termination of employment , solicit custom from any person who may have been a company client during the employment . |
| 12 | Here 's a form of declaration by a spouse or any other person who may have an interest for which , acting for a buyer , you are entitled to ask : I hereby undertake that in consideration of your entering into an agreement to purchase the above property any interest which I may have or acquire therein shall be deferred to any interest of you or any mortgagee or chargee and that I will not apply for the registration of any land charge , caution , notice or restriction in respect thereof . |
| 13 | ‘ The proposition need not be questioned that where an Act purports , invalidly , to require a payment to be made , leaving the liability to be enforced by means of an action in which the invalidity of the statute is an available defence , a person who might have relied upon that defence but has paid without raising it should not be held , just because he was obeying the de facto command of a legislature , to have made the payment involuntarily . |
| 14 | The only person who might have respected her independence was her father , and he was the one being in whose presence she lost it . |
| 15 | But somehow Folly could only think of one person who might have sent her so tantalising a message . |
| 16 | This assumes that a depositor is the person who will have made the deposit in question . |
| 17 | He is the only person who could have got near the animal . ’ |
| 18 | The only person who could have let it out was the girl herself . |
| 19 | The only person who could have told them was William Dougal . |
| 20 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 21 | God is not a person who can have a son . " |
| 22 | Then she retreated in bleak anguish to her bedroom , and sat hunched in the window-seat , looking out over the soft rolling lawns and distant Cotswold hills , dimly aware that her single most painful desire was that her mother were still alive , so she could pour out the secret desolation to the one person who 'd have understood … |