Example sentences of "person [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 11th March 1979 , Dr. Robert Irwin , a police surgeon , stated in an Independent Television programme shown throughout the United Kingdom that he had examined some one hundred and fifty persons who had received physical injuries during interrogation , including bruises , damaged joints and several ruptured ear drums . |
| 2 | A man might be fined , in which case it was usual for him to be ordered to make payment to the person or persons who had suffered as a result of his crime . |
| 3 | They were descendents of persons who had adopted Christianity during Portuguese rule . |
| 4 | These included members of non-Communist political parties and students belonging to non-Communist student organisations ; Mensheviks , Trotskyists and persons ‘ removed from the Communist Party ’ ; military judges , state police , gendarmerie and prison staff ; aristocrats , bankers , merchants , industrialists , hotel and restaurant proprietors ; clergymen and persons active in parishes ; persons who had travelled abroad ; even Esperantists and philatelists . |
| 5 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 6 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 7 | Somehow Margery got to Calais , where she met ‘ divers persons who had known her before ’ ; they would not let her know which ship they were sailing on , but Margery ‘ speered and spied ’ until she found out , and put her luggage aboard . |
| 8 | The persons who had known her before secretly got ready another ship , though ‘ what the cause was , she never knew ’ , says Margery ingenuously . |
| 9 | We are preparing to move back to the States within the next month , and we will miss all of those persons who have made our stay at QP a pleasant one . |
| 10 | a ) any expenditure of the Secretary of State which is attributable to provisions about the fingerprinting of persons who have made a claim for asylum , and |
| 11 | Of persons who have not had prior hepatitis B vaccination or post exposure prophylaxis , 6% to 30% of persons who have received a needlestick exposure from an HBsAg positive individual will become infected . |
| 12 | Now , I know many pe , persons who have liked smoking but who have to , for some reason or other , maybe raised blood pressure , to give up and they have managed to do it and quite easily , because they have desperately wanted to . |
| 13 | Earl St. Vincent , for example , writing in 1801 , remarked that ‘ the list of lieutenants abounds with improper persons who have obtained promotions by influence ’ . |
| 14 | The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read . |
| 15 | At least one member of a party of four must be on a list of persons who have attended a formal safety briefing which will be held at the beginning of each year . |
| 16 | The CDHES estimates that there are now more than 500.000 displaced persons who have moved to areas away from the conflict zones and some 1 million ( 20% of the entire population ) living outside the country . |
| 17 | We understand that there is a dog working party of Council officers already established and we would formally request that the responsible dog ownership group be allowed a representative on that working party to ensure that the views of the two thousand plus petitioners and over two hundred and fifty persons who have written individual letters on the subject to Mister of the recreation division are considered . |
| 18 | It will be well beyond 30 years before the majority of married women and widowed retirement pensioners come to consist of persons who have paid full contributions throughout their periods of employment . |
| 19 | The course provides opportunity for : ( i ) graduates from African , Asian , and Pacific backgrounds to undertake advanced study of Christianity directly related to their own setting ; ( ii ) persons who have worked , or who expect to work , in cross-cultural situations to examine the religious context in which they operate , or to reflect constructively on their experience ; ( iii ) prospective candidates for research involving cross-cultural or inter-religious study who do not have specialised training in these fields , to bridge the gap between previous academic study and the new material . |
| 20 | ( i ) any goods listed above are sold to a bidder for less than his highest bid or part of the price is repaid or credited to him ( or stated to be so ) ; or ( ii ) the right to bid for any goods listed above is ( or is stated to be ) restricted to persons who have bought or agreed to buy one or more articles ; or ( iii ) any articles are given away or offered as gifts . |
| 21 | Whilst an announcement in the London Gazette is good notice to all persons who are not existing clients or creditors , it is always a question of fact as to whether persons who have had dealings with the firm have received sufficient notice of changes . |
| 22 | It is a rule of the game that ‘ Smee ’ and the person or persons who have found ‘ Smee ’ have to keep quiet . |
| 23 | Whilst choice theories firmly limit the range of legal obligations to the parties to an agreement , the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory envisages a broader range of obligations owed not only to persons who have chosen to enter an agreement together but also to anyone whose interests are subjected to the risk of harm . |
| 24 | I mean it 's the old story , is n't it , one person who gets killed on a Bank Holiday car crash is not news but four getting killed together is a disaster , is newsworthy , I mean that 's the way it works . |
| 25 | The Medical Research Council 's Common Cold Research Unit showed that it is not the person who gets caught in the rain or sits in a draught who is likely to develop a cold but the one who has to work in the air-conditioned , centrally-heated , artificially-lit atmosphere found in many modern office blocks . |
| 26 | I was not the only person who felt betrayed by filthy lucre when the World Cup went to the satellite company . |
| 27 | Immediately , Vesna Jurkic Girardi , Director of the Archaeological Museum in Pula ( today Croatian Minister of Culture ) got the case moving by bringing charges against an unknown person who had excavated archaeological treasure in the region of Barbariga in Istria and smuggled it out of the country . |
| 28 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 29 | The justices found that there had been a breach of the peace before the police arrived , because the mother-in-law of the person who had asked the defendant to leave the swings had been ‘ alarmed ’ by the defendant 's conduct . |
| 30 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |