Example sentences of "[art] person [Wh pn] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subject of make , on the other hand , refers to the persons who will actually effect the change , and the making and the changing are felt to coincide in time ( " concurrent causation " ) . |
| 2 | The trouble was , they thought , that the person who 'd really regret it the most would be the one nome who was eaten . |
| 3 | In practical terms , the school librarian or teacher may not have the authority to make a final decision on the purchase of a microcomputer but it is important that s/he has some knowledge of what microcomputers can do and what criteria should be used for selection , so that the decision made by the headteacher may be influenced by the person who will ultimately control and use the microcomputer . |
| 4 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 5 | The Act does not as a matter of law preclude a court from holding that an action for negligence lies in favour of a person who could formerly have brought an action based on loss of services but in view of the current law on economic loss it seems most unlikely that such a development will occur . |