Example sentences of "person [Wh pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials attributed these increases to persons who killed cattle for beef . |
| 2 | This latter is a longitudinal survey over a period of two and a half years following a structured sample of some 4,000 persons who registered as unemployed in May 1980 . |
| 3 | They measured the number of cases brought to court by persons who alleged that their cattle had been stolen . |
| 4 | The prosecution said : ‘ It is the Crown case that the accused was one of the two persons who lay in wait for this unfortunate young man and that he participated in , observed and encouraged the assault on the deceased . ’ |
| 5 | Since most Christian teachers are kind persons who prefer to avoid controversy when they can , and doodle anxiously during fierce argument at meetings , things tended to go the way of Bethune-Baker ; partly because he was devastating , and partly because often he was devastatingly right . |
| 6 | Persons who wished to manipulate the spirits and demons operated with the advice and help of specialists such as temple priests , exorcists , and mediums . |
| 7 | even such persons who worry about the ‘ lost ’ of land as Erik Eckholm , acknowledge that it is in our power to have more land if there is a will to work for it . |
| 8 | There are certainly a number of obvious difficulties which need to be acknowledged ; first of all , some groups are extremely small , and where divisions are made on the basis of two speaker variables ( such as social class and sex ) it may seem a little unreal to label the persons who fall into one of the resulting categories as something along the lines of ‘ the upper-middle-class female group ’ . |
| 9 | Reaction against the weapons of ‘ The Thing ’ — I take that now , in concluding , as typical of some , though not all , of the classifications into which I have exhorted you to divide the breaches of law and order — reaction against its contradictions , its absurdities , its defiance of known , established , healthy reality , can only come from individual persons — and from individual persons who speak . |
| 10 | no longer confined to persons who speak the King 's English or who come under the direct influence of the great writers ; the continuity of our literary and linguistic heritage is threatened by the far-reaching influence of the half educated … |
| 11 | Are persons who inflict physical or sexual assault in the domestic context really less blameworthy than their counterparts on the street ? |
| 12 | As we understand it , the Chancellor does not tax spirits more heavily because of their intrinsic properties nor because of the categories of persons who consume spirits , but because he considers that spirits face market circumstances which allow them to bear heavier taxes . |
| 13 | ( b ) the financial and professional advisers to the offeror or target group and persons who control , are controlled by or are under common control with such advisers ; |
| 14 | The rule dealt with persons who had ‘ the same interest in any proceedings ’ . |
| 15 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 16 | The same answer I have got from several distinguished persons who had themselves had a particular pleasure in planting trees and plants with their own hands . |
| 17 | Romero linked his readings with the reality of life in El Salvador and each week his sermon was followed by ‘ a reading of every documented case of persons who had been killed , assaulted , tortured or disappeared by any group on the left or the right ’ . |
| 18 | The foreigners resident in Paris were represented not only by their Ambassadors but frequently by non-official persons who had access to the Court , such as the American socialite Lillie Moulton . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They were descendents of persons who had adopted Christianity during Portuguese rule . |
| 21 | Legislation was passed which required that persons who had been sentenced to an aggregate of more than three months imprisonment during the past seven years be committed to a superior court when charged with another offence . |
| 22 | They were persons who had been brain-washed by years of experience of disengaging from colonies and saw Northern Ireland as another external colony from which Great Britain was destined to disengage in order to hand it back to the natives whom they assumed were the republican Irish of the island as a whole . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The persons who had known her before secretly got ready another ship , though ‘ what the cause was , she never knew ’ , says Margery ingenuously . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There it was held that those persons who had access to inside information were required to observe the ‘ abstain or disclose ’ principle ie they had either to disclose the inside information which they held or abstain from trading . |
| 28 | The object was to recover stolen property for the owners and obtain evidence against persons who had either stolen or dishonestly handled it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |