Example sentences of "a person [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One question which was raised was whether the term illegal entrant could cover a person who had obtained leave to enter by deception or fraud , as well as a person who had entered by clandestine means . |
| 2 | To prove whether a place is ‘ public ’ could necessitate taking a statement from a person who had authorised access to a normally private place ; enquiring about and keeping observations on the place to show actual usage ; or describing any permanent or temporary signs that relate to who had access . |
| 3 | The chairman historically was a person who had served on the tribunal as an ordinary member for some time . |
| 4 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 5 | I thought that he lacked confidence , that for a person who had achieved what he had the composure was n't there . |
| 6 | The information board outside the Freemantle Police Station displayed a poster which offered a reward for information leading to the conviction of a person who had murdered a High Court judge . |
| 7 | Then he added with a smile , ‘ But it would be very interesting to meet a person who had murdered somebody . ’ |
| 8 | In Helby v Matthews [ 1895 ] AC 471 , the House of Lords decided that a hirer under a hire purchase agreement who was entitled to terminate the hiring agreement at any time , was not a person who had agreed to buy the goods within the meaning of s9 of FA 1889 , so confirming the nemo dat rule ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 9 | The best she could manage was to imagine him to be a person who had known Ewan well . |
| 10 | One question which was raised was whether the term illegal entrant could cover a person who had obtained leave to enter by deception or fraud , as well as a person who had entered by clandestine means . |
| 11 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 12 | but I wonder having said that justice is a matter of treating people fairly , not only punishing them , presumably , in a fair way , deciding what is a fair way to treat , justly whether a person who 's done something anti-social , is part of that fairness , trying to get them to see the the evil that they 've done . |
| 13 | It can be weekly , fortnightly , monthly , or just occasionally on request but quite often we are finding that a person who 's assessed as needing help weekly , but all that we have got is fortnightly , and all of the time there are clients waiting for us to up the amount of help that we 're giving to them and , very much , it needs to be when it benefits them , and when it fits in with their lives . |
| 14 | And see my hands they they they 're quite they 're they 're exactly like a er well shall we say an educated person 's hand A person who 's spent his life working behind a desk . |
| 15 | What she was doing is she was talking as a person who 's got a genuine love of the theatre as we all have that 's what were doing here looking for solutions now can I 'm I 'm as I said I 'm not assassinating your character now but you 're being very intimidating in the way that your talking to people . . |
| 16 | The quest for social pain becomes a preoccupation with my own pain — after all , feminists usually start from their point of identification with other women , and I have my own troubles too , like I 'm also " intentionally homeless ' , a person who 's got out in order to get up . |
| 17 | For a person who 's dedicated it must be a very rewarding job , but for someone who only comes here to work it must be blooming hard . |
| 18 | You never have to tell a person who 's had a heart attack , you never need to tell a woman when her husband has a stroke , I have to . |
| 19 | You see describes it as what The lack of grace , there 's no grace you know in the in in in the There 's a person who 's effected by these . |
| 20 | Behind her attention-demanding façade lay the insecurity of a person who has endured an unhappy childhood , as the poet , Dom Moraes , later to become her third husband , discerned . |
| 21 | A person who has applied for life assurance , but who does not wish to have the test after being asked to do so , should write withdrawing their life assurance application at once , because otherwise it will be refused . |
| 22 | Sometimes , in a person who has become sensitized , there may be small vesicles in the shin which release a clear fluid when ruptured after scratching . |
| 23 | St Paul is particularly fond of describing the contrast between the man or woman without God , and the state of a person who has become a Christian and has now found God . |
| 24 | ‘ Subject to sections 7 and 8 below , a person who has become a rehabilitated person for the purposes of this Act in respect of a conviction shall be treated for all purposes in law as a person who has not committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction ; and , notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law to the contrary , but subject as aforesaid — |
| 25 | Some of the older cases suggest that there should be no recovery by a person who has suffered prenatal injuries because of the difficulties of proof and of the opening it gives for perjury and speculation . |
| 26 | 3.1 The only mechanism by which a court can seek to compensate a person who has suffered damage or loss in consequence of a wrong done to him is to award him monetary compensation , whatever the nature of the damage which he has in fact sustained . |
| 27 | ‘ Except as provided by the subsequent provisions of this Part of this Act — ( a ) no person who under or for the purposes of this Act receives information relating to the business or other affairs of any person ; and ( b ) no person who obtains any such information directly or indirectly from a person who has received it as aforesaid , shall disclose the information without the consent of the person to whom it relates and ( if different ) the person from whom it was received as aforesaid . |
| 28 | This paragraph seems to indicate that it may be possible for a person who has received information in confidence which he could have obtained through other sources to relieve himself of the 'special disability " under which he is otherwise placed by going to those sources . |
| 29 | This duty of an innkeeper is owed not to travellers but only to guests ; a guest is a person who has engaged a minimum of one night 's accommodation at the inn . |
| 30 | In that case he said : As I understand it , the essence of this branch of law , whatever the origin of it may be , is that a person who has obtained information in confidence is not allowed to use it as a springboard for activities detrimental to the person who made the confidential communication , and springboard it remains even when all the features have been published or can be ascertained by actual inspection by any members of the public . |