Example sentences of "[pers pn] or [pron] is [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |
| 2 | The researcher has to have some idea of what he or she is looking for , even though the outcome may be unpredictable . |
| 3 | The growth of mail-order suppliers ( particularly for central heating ) and of do-it-yourself ‘ superstores ’ has made buying a less daunting task — no longer need the amateur feel embarrassed about not knowing exactly what he or she is looking for . |
| 4 | Or , does the scientist know first , what he or she is looking for , in order then , to select the information he or she needs . |
| 5 | We assume he or she is intending to : |
| 6 | It is the task of the Chief Commissioner to decide which decisions are to be reported and he or she is assisted by the Commissioners starring decisions they consider worthy of reporting . |
| 7 | A proxy may not vote at the same election for more than two people unless the proxy is a close relative ie husband , wife , parent , grandparent , brother , sister , child or grandchild of the people he or she is voting for . |
| 8 | According to this account , the learning process is determined by the innate structure of the learner operating upon the specific organisation of whichever human language he or she is exposed to . |
| 9 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |
| 10 | When the honest shopper acts as I have just described , he or she is acting with the implied authority of the owner of the supermarket to take the goods from the shelf , put them in the trolley , take them to the checkpoint and there pay the correct price , at which moment the property in the goods will pass to the shopper for the first time . |
| 11 | That is , he or she is viewed as a passive and helpless victim of ruling class , media and state propaganda . |
| 12 | Resorts to ridiculous tactics like sitting the interviewee on a small , armless chair opposite a window so that he or she is blinking in a stream of sunlight . |
| 13 | There is also a strong sense of' learning' , in which the student identifies with the truth claim he or she is faced with , and can offer it ( for example , back to the consultant physician ) as something with which he or she had personal experience ( having had an opportunity to examine some patients ) . |
| 14 | He or she is supported by a Minister of State and two Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State . |
| 15 | It is expensive in terms of paying the salary or the research grant of the researcher for this time , especially if he or she is engaged in no other work . |
| 16 | ( vi ) The appearance against a person 's name of an indication that he or she is qualified in a jurisdiction other than England and Wales , or the title licensed conveyancer , or registered foreign lawyer , or the title of any other profession , will be deemed to indicate that the person is not a solicitor holding a current practising certificate , unless a contrary indication appears . |
| 17 | The group reflect what they see of the sufferer 's assets and defects ( never defects alone ) and he or she is helped towards the recognition that his or her previous life truly had become unmanageable and that he or she had tried desperately to control everything but was finally having to admit defeat and accept powerlessness . |
| 18 | Get a quote from the vet for night visits in case he or she is needed at foaling . |
| 19 | Once a candidate is recruited , decisions about when he or she is entered for an examination should be taken very carefully and should draw on advice from tutors . |
| 20 | As a ‘ no meaning ’ theist , he or she is protected from the sort of self-criticism that must come when believer and unbeliever are challenging one another on common ground . |
| 21 | He or she is remembered in prayer and asked to in turn pray for the person 's desired object . |
| 22 | Private property as a notion conflates the direct relationship between the individual and those objects with which he or she is associated in self-construction with those over which he or she has legal rights . |
| 23 | Only if an intervention is effective not only in eliminating this factor , but also in transforming the person 's lifestyle such that he or she is removed from this conveyor belt of risk , can the effects of the intervention be expected to be apparent ten or twenty years later . |
| 24 | The function of the pre-trial review is made clear by the instructions to the district judge whereby he or she is required to ‘ … give all such directions as appear to be necessary or desirable for securing the just expeditious and economical disposal of the action or matter . ’ |
| 25 | If he or she is apprised in advance of your particular aims and objectives , and work the pupils have already done on the topic , and so on , the session can often be very carefully tailored to get maximum value from the visit . |
| 26 | ( Incidentally , most bureau will buy in typefaces for clients so long as either the client pays for it or there is going to be sufficient volume of work to justify it . ) |