Collocations withperson
These are words often used in combination withperson.
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able-bodied person
Second, every able-bodied person learns to perceive and control locomotion across a variety of surfaces (as do the young of many other species).
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accused person
Consider, for instance, the right of an accused person lacking proficiency in the state language to a court-appointed interpreter.
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affected person
Doing so violates this principle even if the imposition delivers an overall benefit to the affected person.
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afflicted person
In such cases the afflicted person may carry out actions endangering himself or others.
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arrested person
Besides how can an officer conceivably discount evidence that becomes available through such a search affecting correspondence between a legal adviser and the arrested person?
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authorized person
This is in contrast to a normal door which allows a second person to easily tailgate an authorized person.
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average person
The results show that the average person considers ten years with some problems walking about as equal to 8.5 years in full health.
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bereaved person
This is not helped by counselling but by any social activities that the bereaved person can be persuaded to join.
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caring person
Yet it is entirely conceivable that a caring person might choose to become a physician in part because of the financial rewards involved in the profession.
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contact person
This contact person assists and supervises its implementation within the program.
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courageous person
Return to the example of the courageous person he used to explain that notion.
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creative person
I have always been a creative person, enjoying making things.
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deceased person
On one natural account, presence at the graveside provides an occasion to recall the deceased person, and to rehearse various thoughts about her.
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decent person
Cultural views of the good, decent person seemed to be the main precept of older people as they processed their view of themselves as moderate drinkers.
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disabled person
In contrast, as we have seen the disabled person is identified as a person who is not the same.
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disturbed person
Let us look for a moment at the new premises which the disturbed person wants to, or has to, acquire.
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divine person
And suppose joint causation is impossible so only one divine person could create a given item.
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dying person
Caring for a dying person creates considerable strain for caregivers and may affect their working schedule, family life, and social relationships.
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educated person
An educated person knew some literature, some history, some geography - and acquired some level of foreign-language competence.
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elderly person
This means that the technical aids need to be adjustable to every elderly person and his/her house.
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evil person
I think one speaker from the other benches definitely suggested that in connection with raw cotton the merchant was an evil person.
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fair-minded person
Using patients as hostages, as happened last year, is abhorrent to any fair-minded person.
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homeless person
If a homeless person encountered in the public square has drug-resistant tuberculosis, it is not just his problem; it is a communal concern.
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honest person
Someone who consistently chooses to tell the truth is an honest person.
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honourable person
Therefore, my noble friend who is to reply this afternoon, although an honourable person, sadly is here to defend what is probably indefensible.
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humble person
Everyone engaged in industry is now measured, from management to the most humble person serving in industry.
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illiterate person
We should not assume that the consumer is an illiterate person, because he is not.
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infected person
Transmission occurs through the inhalation of respiratory droplets when in close contact with an infected person.
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injured person
An injured person, that is to say, may experience a disquiet that can be slaked by 'holding someone accountable' even without knowing ex ante exactly what that means.
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innocent person
A completely innocent person such as the custodian or caretaker of a hall is potentially at risk.
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insured person
From the moment that concession was made it became almost impossible to justify it to the average insured person.
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intelligent person
Nevertheless, there was some plausibility in saying that we would actually prefer and choose the supposedly smaller gain for the less intelligent person.
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intoxicated person
On the other hand, if an intoxicated person is found on licensed premises, the publican is guilty of a crime, and is punishable.
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juridical person
During the course of the eighteenth century, the degree became largely detached from the juridical person of the candidate.
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kind person
Seeing oneself as a kind person requires that we sometimes perform acts of kindness, but it also requires that we never do anything that is patently cruel.
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kind-hearted person
The problem is not that a kind-hearted person would not exercise discretion, but that we have no discretion.
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living person
As many participants noted, a living person still needs his or her organs and depends on them for full bodily integrity and functionality.
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mature person
The kind of mature person who wants to work, who has thought it all out and is ready to work, is only one class.
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named person
Plainly, if there is any statutory provision affecting the named person that named person will be completely safeguarded.
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needy person
Values, rules and virtues are not - morally - the right things to be thinking about when you are faced with a needy person.
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nice person
Not that she would complain, because she's an awfully nice person.
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normal person
When a normal person has such sensations, he or she takes pleasure in the fact that he or she has them.
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obese person
But what is an obese person?
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only person
He was the only person to give his life to the boycott agitation.
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ordinary person
But die resulting extensive language revolution caused by broadcasters has given the ordinary person a national and international voice as never before.
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qualified person
Incapacities of government and population came together in the inability to fill this position with a qualified person.
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rational person
Given this, it seems reasonable to think that any rational person would prefer even the most totalitarian state to life in the state of nature.
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reasonable person
But to assert that there is always a reasonable alternative that any reasonable person would recognize is to blink reality.
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retired person
In theory, modeling the utility of an annuity to a retired person inevitably shows that they dominate alternative retirement investments.
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right-thinking person
No right-thinking person would disagree with any of those platitudes.
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sane person
No sane person in a mining community would buy a property that was listed to have mining operations under it.
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self-employed person
Yet the self-employed person, because he does not pay his taxes and levies, has a financial advantage over the more efficient team.
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sensible person
Clearly the sensible person 'tops himself out' before he is topped out by his neurotic symptoms, thus keeping a little ritual fighting potential in reserve.
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shy person
Everyone respected her all the more because it was common knowledge that she was, by nature, a very shy person.
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sighted person
Yet it taxes him or her like a sighted person although their taxable capacity must be in some degree lessened by their blindness.
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single person
But by the same token, it is equally possible for a single person to give account of themselves in a number of different ways.
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stateless person
He is a stateless person and should be taken in.
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thoughtful person
He was such a thoughtful person.
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unauthorized person
I am informed that the reservations were properly made but that some unauthorized person removed the labels from the compartment.
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unemployed person
Calculating passive labour market spending per unemployed person confirms that some countries are more generous towards the unemployed than others are.
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unqualified person
I do not accept the proposition that a qualified person tells the truth and an unqualified person does not.
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untrained person
There is not one among us who would entrust the servicing of a motor car or motor-cycle to an untrained person.
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unvaccinated person
My own opinion is that an unvaccinated person is a danger not only to himself but to the whole community.
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vaccinated person
The age of the youngest vaccinated person who died from small-pox was 43.
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well-informed person
Rather, the well-informed person of the final years of the twentieth century is expected to know how to argue from biology.
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wise person
Rather, it shows how a wise person can work with recipients of wisdom in a process of achieving a shared insight.
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wonderful person
He was a wonderful person, a great humanist and a great character.
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