The phrase "a person operates" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing the actions or functions performed by an individual, often in relation to machinery, systems, or processes.
Example: "In this factory, a person operates the machinery to ensure everything runs smoothly."
Alternatives: "an individual controls" or "someone manages".
Or as Judith M. Bardwick, author of "Danger in the Comfort Zone" (American Management Association, 1991), writes, "The comfort zone is a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral position".
Because the soul of a person operates through the body, the body manifests certain characteristics of the soul, and so stands to offer evidence of the character of the soul.
Some people had thought that the account was an automated program that produced its utterances unwittingly, so when they learned that a person operated it, they were furious.
The first is that there is a tendency, when we think about lying in the abstract, to imagine the liar as a person operating in a world of innocents.
The concept of "fighting from barracks" or the "remote warrior" raises such questions as whether a person operating the drones – sometimes from thousands of miles away and "walking the streets of his home town after a shift" – is a legitimate target as a combatant.
HB2613 eliminates the cremationist license, but not the requirement that a licensed person operate a crematory retort and perform cremations--the government grants the exclusive privilege to perform those tasks to another licensed group: funeral directors.
You may keep this camera in a fixed position or have a second person operate it.
Each person operates their own business exclusively and earns their own money".
Grice defines unrelativized value "in Aristotelian style [as] whatever would seem to possess such value in the eyes of a duly accredited judge; and a duly accredited judge might be identifiable as a good person operating in conditions of freedom".
Think of your hand motion as that of a left-handed person operating a pencil.
The S.A.T. was a test devised by a particular institution, by a particular kind of person, operating from a particular mind-set.
