Example sentences of "person to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | that the hours of work required for a person to be treated as in ‘ remunerative work ’ will be reduced from not fewer than 24 to not fewer than 16 hours a week from April 1992 . |
| 2 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 3 | I am not the kind of person to be treated seriously , in Bob 's jargon . |
| 4 | Do you remind them of Angela Williams , the first person to be prosecuted for smoking on the tube or of Paul Deiring , the first person to be jailed for smoking on the tube ( he could n't pay his £25 fine ) or do you make like Eric Butler , the Bernard Goetz of the Victoria Line , who , in 1987 , mocked and taunted by drunken youths , retaliated with a sword-stick and was punished in the courts for his efforts . |
| 5 | Do you remind them of Angela Williams , the first person to be prosecuted for smoking on the tube or of Paul Deiring , the first person to be jailed for smoking on the tube ( he could n't pay his £25 fine ) or do you make like Eric Butler , the Bernard Goetz of the Victoria Line , who , in 1987 , mocked and taunted by drunken youths , retaliated with a sword-stick and was punished in the courts for his efforts . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Loopy Lil , even if she was mental , seemed a good safe person to be near . |
| 8 | She was also a safe and kind person to be with . |
| 9 | If the explanation for the violent outburst lies in something which might understandably lead a person to be so angry as to lose self-control , then this supplies an added reason for mitigating the offence and the sentence . |
| 10 | Is the goal of an overweight person to be like the picture of a slim person such as we have just described ? |
| 11 | Too often it is us , the anxious onlookers , who want the person to be admitted to ‘ care ’ because it makes us feel better . |
| 12 | The organisation said it was ‘ astonishing ’ that it was still regarded as a slur for a person to be described as gay , and delivered a letter to Mr Donovan calling for his support in their campaign for the ‘ enactment of legislation for lesbian and gay equality ’ . |
| 13 | John Lewis , the man who had complained about the effect of financial cuts on safety at Lowermoor , was the only person to be sacked as a result of the incident . |
| 14 | There is no room here for a highly technical debate about language , but what is clear is that Christianity can not possibly associate any view of God with what we would normally conceive a person to be . |
| 15 | Speaking at the rally , Paul Hill , who in 1976 was the first person to be arrested under the PTA , said : ‘ The Irish people can not be oppressed any longer . |
| 16 | When I 'm happy I 'm a wonderful person to be with , but if anyone tries to keep me from doing what I want to do then I 'm … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He was really quiet , a weird person to be in group I suppose . |
| 18 | He was a good person to be in the band in the early days but he might have held them back later on because he is not as good a drummer as Simon , and that 's putting it mildly . |
| 19 | For free brochure write or telephone giving age of eldest person to be included . |
| 20 | Other aromatherapists adopt an intuitive approach to the art , preferring not to choose appropriate oils for a client , but to allow the person to be guided solely by their aroma preference . |
| 21 | In old age , there may be the will to retain independence in this AL but circumstances and the effects of the process of ageing may force an elderly person to be dependent on others , at least to some degree . |
| 22 | I was quite evidently not a person to be trusted with even the simplest task . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was possible for a person to be given a legacy on the understanding that he would manumit a slave . |
| 25 | If these points can be arranged satisfactorily then the sequential interview is by far the most streamlined and efficient way of allowing more than one person to be involved in selection . |
| 26 | He usually chose a different person to be ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ each year . |
| 27 | How common is it to find churches which encourage a person to be open and honest about his doubting ? |
| 28 | Samuel Fox Esq was born in 1815 , and when he died in 1887 he was the first person to be buried in the cemetery attached to the church . |
| 29 | Ballesteros is not the first person to be challenged by the complexities of life . |
| 30 | ‘ Mind you , I may not be the right person to be giving an opinion on this , because , as I said , I do n't think ‘ combo ’ anyway . |