Example sentences of "[prep] person [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been shown above , the movement denoted by to can be intercepted at some point before its term to evoke a support at some remove from the position occupied by the representation of person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event , thus giving rise to the impression which we have called " subsequent potentiality " ( He struggled to get free ) . |
| 2 | You can count that sort of person on one hand . ’ |
| 3 | Third , there is the category of person with whom the organisation has an exclusive and effectively full-time relationship . |
| 4 | Where an application to transfer a licence on a change of person with day to day responsibility is lodged out with the eight week time limit , see Argyll Arms ( McManus ) Ltd. v. Lorn , Mid-Argyll , Kintyre and Islay Divisional Licensing Board , 1988 S.L.T. 290 , where it was held that the board required to hear the application outwith the eight week period despite the provision that the licence ceases to have effect . |
| 5 | Who 's the kind of person with ! |
| 6 | There are occasional signs of attempts by Downing Street to infiltrate a new type of person into the ranks of the lieutenancy . |
| 7 | We see that er there is no possibility our children can have because unless until they move around so freely as the Western children do move , that is the only way they can choose the right sort of person as a , as the companion for family . |
| 8 | When showing female and male nudes , do you discuss the role of the observer and the idea of person as object ? |
| 9 | The view that the infinitive involves a generalized representation of person as the support necessary to conceive the lexical content as an event thus in no way contradicts anything said previously . |
| 10 | Guillaume 's notion of a representation of person as a support within the infinitive has proven to be extremely fruitful for explaining the uses of this form discussed above . |
| 11 | I am not the kind of person to be treated seriously , in Bob 's jargon . |
| 12 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 13 | But you 've got to prove that they are a suspected person — they had to belong to a particular class of person to be classed as a suspected person . |
| 14 | ‘ He was not the sort of person to be involved in drugs . |
| 15 | Secondly if the first question is answered affirmatively , it is necessary to consider whether there are any considerations which ought to negative , or to reduce or limit the scope of duty or the class of person to whom it is owed or the damages to which a breach of it may give rise . |
| 16 | In terms of anthropological theory , this chapter , taken as a whole , may be considered an elaboration of Radcliffe-Brown 's formula that the core of social anthropology is the study of society considered as " a structure of person to person relationships " . |
| 17 | But it was to a totally different kind of person to whom he confessed his total loneliness . |
| 18 | Not the type of person to be Kirsty 's mother . ’ |
| 19 | He taught me a lot and was also a good type of person for whom I always have had a very high regard . |
| 20 | For when he seeks a particular type of person to assist him in a particular way , he can be assured that the recruitment professional will not waste his time or energy in introducing unsuitable candidates for consideration , but that he will be given details of only the right sort of person for the required position . |
| 21 | Because er there 's too much , because they did n't like the way things were run , something like that and on occasions we have had to say to people , we 're sorry , we just do n't think you 're the right kind of person for us . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'll be quite a good sort of person by the time you return from the Future , supposing you do return , of course , because I did n't like the sound of that spell , did you ? |
| 23 | But the fact remained , the doctors were a different sort of person from the regular army officers ; they wanted to do the good works they did ; that they would have done it anyway , without being ordered , is my certain opinion . |
| 24 | They went into politics because it was one of the things that a certain type of person in a certain station did . |
| 25 | But the Chiefs were not a different kind of person in the way that , in the armed services , officers were officers and men were men . |
| 26 | The confusion of person in the first sentence is understandable as the contract was written out in Old George 's hand ; and as the sole contracting party on one side it was easier for him to write my than the more impersonal , if more accurate , the master 's or some other third person equivalent . |
| 27 | Well , we could n't be having that sort of person in here . |
| 28 | An interesting bit of supporting evidence for this view of person in the infinitive is provided by weather verbs , which can only have a third person support ( it ) because of their notional import . |
| 29 | Besides contributing to a deeper comprehension of the function of to , this study has also led to a fuller understanding of the role of the category of person in the infinitive . |
| 30 | Spenser is thinking of a class of person within a distinctive social framework . |