Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] one person " in BNC.

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1 If such a possibility is likely to arise , then the analysis of the actual forms must be confined to one person who will act in complete confidence , destroying the forms as soon as his analysis is complete and there has been adequate discussion of the data ; or preferably , an outside person should be invited to undertake the task .
2 Nothing is barred in the crime novel , however much was barred in the old days of the detective story when , for instance , sexual relations often seemed confined to one person expressing just the discreetest interest in another .
3 All the cases discussed in this section have been ones in which words addressed to one person were held to make another person a trustee either for the first person or for a third party .
4 They have already collected 1,000 signatures , said Mr Leeder , and had not come across one person who had objected to what they wanted .
5 However , the degree to which the maintenance behaviour is absorbed by several people appears to depend on the strength of the task-oriented actor(s) ; that is , if the group is dominated by one person , then , to restore balance to the group , most other members , for reasons which are difficult to understand , may adopt a consensus-seeking , team-building posture .
6 Referring to dual seats , the HSE has long advocated that tractor cabs should only be occupied by one person .
7 a large transient hotel with a high percentage of double rooms , very often occupied by one person only ; therefore :
8 An agreement to induce a breach of contract might be thought to fall outside this protection because inducement is a tort if committed by one person , but this is not so if the inducement is protected by section 13(1) .
9 An extra unit of such goods can be enjoyed by one person , without anyone else 's enjoyment being affected .
10 It is an unconditional order in writing , addressed by one person or company to another , signed by the person or the company to whom it is addressed , to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future date a certain sum of money to , or to the order of , a specified person or company , or to bearer .
11 That was about six years ago , I heard that , and I 've heard of one person already that I 've personally met .
12 She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them .
13 It is not to be wondered at if , when a request is made of one person , another is obliged by a trust : for if the following is written in a will ‘ I ask you , Titius , having received a hundred to manumit that slave ’ or ‘ to give something to Sempronius ’ , certainly it is not adequately expressed , but a trust must all the same be understood to be charged on the heir to pay the money to Titius : and so Titius himself will sue the heir , and will be compelled to give freedom to the slave or to Sempronius what he was asked to .
14 ‘ No risk ’ activity is safe as no infectious body fluids ( for example blood , semen , vaginal secretions ) can be transferred from one person to another .
15 As suggested above , what Community law seems to require national courts positively to do is to identify an organisational function and then to ascertain whether control of that function has been transferred from one person to another in such a way that the function retains its operational structure .
16 Thus by the use of cheques , credit cards , standing orders , etc. , money can be transferred from one person or institution to another without having to rely on cash .
17 They can be acquired from other people and any form of interpersonal contact may allow microorganisms to be transmitted from one person to another .
18 ‘ You 've confessed to one person .
19 They considered that a building or product can not be regarded as a complex structure if it has been wholly constructed or manufactured by one person , so as to form a single indivisible unit .
20 Discussion between the team leader and his surveyor must take place as the monitoring process should not be done by one person in isolation .
21 The central issue has been why the ‘ magic of plurality ’ should make something unlawful if it is not unlawful when done by one person alone .
22 The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person .
23 The scope of ‘ unlawful means ’ conspiracy is also restricted by the requirement that the act should be one which would be actionable in tort if done by one person .
24 Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think .
25 A passage of test data ( written by one person ) was used to test the inverted look-up technique on word positions where no candidate words suggested from the combination of recognised alternative characters were found in the lexicon .
26 If it is written by one person there can be no objection to an occasional " I " , and if by several persons to the use of an occasional " we " .
27 For a start it is written by one person .
28 At the beginning of the century , it was generally held that , in the absence of any contractual or fiduciary relationship , there was no liability for a negligent misrepresentation made by one person to another who had incurred loss by acting on it .
29 Often I could see no connection between a remark made by one person and the reply given by another .
30 He says : ‘ We are making more and more DCDs — Driver Controlled Deliveries — where the driver not only delivers a tanker of petrol to a filling station , but is trained to unload it into the underground storage tanks ’ This has become a necessity , as more and more petrol stations are operated by one person locked behind security windows .
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