Example sentences of "person [Wh pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of 162 persons who later stood trial , sixty-two were sentenced to death , of whom twenty-five were hanged . |
| 2 | In December 1638 the Earl of Holland , as Chief Justice of the southern forests , was informed of persons who unlawfully took the game in Rockingham Forest with ‘ dogs , nets , crossbows , guns and other engines ’ . |
| 3 | The particular transaction concerned can be off-exchange ; ( 3 ) Overseas persons who regularly deal off-exchange ( in relation only to investments of the actual kind they regularly deal in , and related derivatives ) . |
| 4 | Four problem areas arise with visitors : ( a ) Rights of way Persons who lawfully exercise a private right of way are not treated as visitors and are therefore not covered by the 1957 Act ( Holden v White [ 1982 ] 2 WLR 1030 ) . |
| 5 | A concentration may occur in one of two ways : first , two or more parties that were previously independent may merge so as to become one new independent business or secondly , one or more persons who already control one business may acquire direct or indirect control of another business . |
| 6 | By this I mean that the commands to do or to abstain proceed from persons who no matter whether this is logical or reasonable or justifiable by any objective criterion — are believed to be persons who have the moral right to issue them : so that , correlatively , those to whom the commands are addressed feel a moral duty to obey them . |
| 7 | However , the European Court accepted that one of the principal purposes of the legislation was to encourage the ownership of rural land by those persons who actually worked it , and that the law was applied equally to nationals and non-nationals alike . |
| 8 | She was not a greatly intelligent woman , being one of those persons who always seem busy without ever achieving anything in particular , and it never failed to amaze her that her son could remember what he read when she had difficulty remembering the day of the week . |
| 9 | Erm but it really depended , the persons who really got the stuff out of it was just two people in the end . |
| 10 | This leaves Open the possibility of negotiation between the parties to identify the person who eventually becomes the main carer . |
| 11 | It is sufficient to say that I agree with what my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , has to say about these cases in the speech to be delivered by him , and that in my opinion a person who thus procures the company 's consent dishonestly and with the intention of permanently depriving the company of the money is guilty of theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 . |
| 12 | Every therapist/healer , orthodox or otherwise , has come across the person who just does not get better — despite doing everything ‘ right ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's exactly the same as telling the wall it 's hurt the person who just banged his head on it . |
| 14 | Yes , in the sense that she was not a person who just reacted and went along with the system , but was prepared to be independent and assess situations for herself . |
| 15 | The mystic person who singularly failed to appear during a 20-year span of abuse was my doctor . |
| 16 | As time goes on the need for such support will , obviously , diminish — it 's more than likely that your staff will become more conversant with the product than the person who either sold or trained them on it . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the doors are n't open 'til 9 am because the person who normally opens up is off . |
| 18 | Being easily provoked , she was the sort of person who automatically attracted ridicule . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) Any person who intentionally obstructs a person exercising rights conferred by this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale or to both . |
| 20 | Surely it is possible that a jury might decline to convict of murder a person who intentionally killed under gross provocation , even though they knew that the judge could give a lenient sentence , because they wished to signify the reduction in the defendant 's culpability by using the less stigmatic label of manslaughter . |
| 21 | She sees the person who successfully survives the hazards of the middle years becoming someone in their own right who is not afraid to take responsibility and to admit to ‘ what I really feel ’ . |
| 22 | Section 13 of the Theft Act 1968 reads : [ A ] person who dishonestly uses without due authority , or dishonestly causes to be wasted or diverted , any electricity is guilty of a crime . |
| 23 | She was almost the only person who regularly used their Islamic names . |
| 24 | the damage was suffered by a person who voluntarily accepted the risk thereof . |
| 25 | Clause 5 of the Bill would impose an obligation of confidence on a person who improperly acquires information by using or interfering with any computer or data retrieval mechanism , a welcome clarification . |
| 26 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 27 | But naturally a person who already has these qualifications starts with an advantage . |
| 28 | A purchaser at a public auction acquires absolute title and therefore claims by the original owner against any person who later acquires the work are rebuttable . |
| 29 | One person who clearly distinguished mental ideas and material things in this way was the French Cartesian , Nicolas Malebranche . |
| 30 | IF THERE is one person who clearly has no doubt that the South African government shall release Nelson Mandela , it is Nelson Mandela himself . |