Example sentences of "person [Wh pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that such liability is firmly established , the question becomes whether persons who give advice or perform services should be liable to all persons who may foreseeably rely upon their work being properly performed with all due care . |
| 2 | The subject of make , on the other hand , refers to the persons who will actually effect the change , and the making and the changing are felt to coincide in time ( " concurrent causation " ) . |
| 3 | One person who would otherwise appropriate is exempted by s.3(2) . |
| 4 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 5 | There was only one person who would really understand , because he was going through exactly the same . |
| 6 | It protects the defendant in that it prevents the jury from speculating on the possible effect of adult literature on a young person who may just happen to see it , although it does not put the prosecution to proof that a majority , or even a substantial number , of readers would be adversely affected . |
| 7 | Training centres are hard-pressed and insufficient in numbers and , with job prospects gloomy for all young people , the now older parents may find it hard to cope with the constant supervision of a young mentally handicapped person who may still exhibit child-like exuberance . |
| 8 | My mum 's the sort of person who 'll just argue with anything , if she thinks she 'll argue with anybody , or anything if she thinks that she 's being swindled , so like , she even went to the extent of having , they , we had an extension built , right , and she , we had it , only fair 's fair , this one particular suite , we had erm , and they , they had this absolutely massive bathroom built , okay not specifically to have a nicer bathroom , but to have a very big room and erm , so they had two sinks , this sounds real extravagant , erm , |
| 9 | He is the kind of person who might even kill you without noticing it . |
| 10 | In practical terms , the school librarian or teacher may not have the authority to make a final decision on the purchase of a microcomputer but it is important that s/he has some knowledge of what microcomputers can do and what criteria should be used for selection , so that the decision made by the headteacher may be influenced by the person who will ultimately control and use the microcomputer . |
| 11 | The Act does not as a matter of law preclude a court from holding that an action for negligence lies in favour of a person who could formerly have brought an action based on loss of services but in view of the current law on economic loss it seems most unlikely that such a development will occur . |
| 12 | In fact , the kind of person who could easily keep a deformed monster alive in eternal agony . |
| 13 | She 's a wonderful lady , a wonderful mother , not simple or anything like that , just a very trusting person who could never bring herself to speak ill of anyone . ’ |
| 14 | I think Dad was the kind of person who could only love one person in his life . |
| 15 | ‘ My younger sister is the only person who could possibly take the girls if we died , and I 'm not sure that she would really want them . |
| 16 | Graham said : ‘ I am not the sort of person who can just sit around reading . |
| 17 | She 's the kind of person who 'd probably forget to eat or sleep for days while she was painting , then eat ravenously for the next week to make up , if she could . |
| 18 | The trouble was , they thought , that the person who 'd really regret it the most would be the one nome who was eaten . |