Example sentences of "[pron] he [conj] she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |
| 2 | He or she has to believe it , and to be able to back it up with reasons which he or she also believes . |
| 3 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |
| 4 | Anyone who supposes this case to be exceptional should try to reconcile the community of which he or she is genuinely a member with the constituency in which he or she now votes , and then remember that an STV constituency would be three , four , five or more times larger . |
| 5 | ( As so often happens in secondary schools , the same individual may be enthusiastic in the one capacity for activity which he or she adamantly inveighs against in the other capacity . |
| 6 | To perform the court 's order could require the doctor to act in a manner which he or she genuinely believed not to be in the patient 's best interests ; to fail to treat the child as ordered would amount to a contempt of court . |
| 7 | If a constable reasonably suspects that an arrestable offence has been committed , he or she may detain anyone whom he or she reasonably suspects to be guilty of it . |
| 8 | Whereas the adult is influenced by what he or she already knows or by what other people have been saying . |
| 9 | The individual will work less and give more hours to leisure , but this is not what he or she originally wished to do , and his or her satisfaction or welfare is thus reduced . |
| 10 | The character can not benefit by what he or she now knows and all the reader can do is reflect on all that has been lost or missed . |
| 11 | Everyone gets what he or she now wants . |
| 12 | Sometimes I think the industry tends to focus on what we 'd like the customer to want , rather than what he or she actually wants . |
| 13 | does not offer the employee anything he or she really wants , such as personal development , pay , promotion , recognition , job satisfaction etc . |