Example sentences of "or she [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been involved in a substantial amount of this sort of work for 15 years , I believe it is correct to aver that once a person reaches 60 there is an unwritten rule or convention which determines that he or she shall not receive a first appointment . |
| 2 | As he landed heavily on the linoleum , the doctor called to him : ‘ Tell her I 'll be paying the ten shillings or she wo n't come . ’ |
| 3 | He or she wo n't tell you what to do — but will be alongside you ( metaphorically ) as you find your own way . |
| 4 | If an aspiring agent does n't go to college or university , there is no reason why he or she ca n't apply to an agency and come in as a very junior person to work their way up . |
| 5 | The younger adolescent is to be pardoned for feeling that he or she ca n't win ! |
| 6 | Here , in ( ii ) , the utterance provides the clue : B has to go to Edinburgh ; thus if A and B are both far from Edinburgh ( and mutually know this ) , so that it will take the rest of the day to travel and do things there , then B is busy today ; sob is indirectly producing a reason why he or she ca n't easily come to see A , and in so doing can be understood to be refusing A's request . |
| 7 | So and she ca I do n't know whether you noticed or she ca n't make a cup of coffee without spilling it . |
| 8 | Or she may simply be trying to snub President Cory Aquino , who refuses to allow Marcos back , even through he is dead ; and has barred Imelda too . |
| 9 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 10 | Regardless of the experience of your senior nurse momentary aberrations do occur , particularly under pressure , and he or she may simply not have realised the implications of what was being asked . |
| 11 | Or she may simply have opted for motherhood without the father which normally completes the traditional ‘ set ’ . |
| 12 | But in fact , he or she may well be in a privileged position . |
| 13 | When the other person is less formal and more forthcoming , he or she may well feel compromised by their self-disclosure which has not been reciprocated . |
| 14 | He or she may well progress from one to the other . |
| 15 | By personal charisma and/or alliance with other fonctionnaires with a more direct professional stake in curriculum content and delivery ( especially , inspectors ) , he or she may also and exceptionally become a ‘ curriculum leader ’ in the British sense , but that is achieved at the cost of encroaching upon the formal responsibility of other professionals . |
| 16 | He or she may also have vomiting and possibly diarrhoea . |
| 17 | He or she may also be able to claim the cost of any parts already ordered to do the job and any labour charges over the £25 deposit you paid . |
| 18 | He or she may also suspect that the manager has far greater access to a lot of useful information . |
| 19 | However , he or she may also render all the partners collectively liable . |
| 20 | But , if there is a further " selecting " qualifier , such as only , and if the speaker sees the latter as focusing on the property of the adjective , then it is quite reasonable that he or she may also feel it necessary to mark this focal adjectival property as one to be explicitly assigned , rather than being an ordinary part of the identificatory bundle . |
| 21 | If this visit is not possible , she should fill in section B or C ( as well as section A ) on the back of the death certificate ( Form BD8 ) issued by the Registrar and send it to her local Social Security Office without delay , and they will send her a claim form ; or she may just write to the local office asking for a claim form for widow 's benefit . |
| 22 | He or she may even be the local greengrocer who hears a band rehearsing down the road in the village hall . |
| 23 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 24 | You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you . |
| 25 | In a manufacturing company , he or she may not only do public relations for the Board of Directors and the general information about the company as a whole , but may also have to satisfy a marketing department who demand the benefits of public relations for their products . |
| 26 | It 's something she may give up or she may not . |
| 27 | If the salesperson is unsuccessful at this stage , then he or she may not have the opportunity of selling to the firm again until the next model change ( and even then it is difficult trying to dislodge established suppliers ) . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 29 | He or she may now buy 5 per cent of the equity of the ungeared firm , ABC Ltd , for 12,500 and receive an expected return of 2,000 [ ( 0.05 ) ( 40,000 ) ] . |
| 30 | I 've got to solve it or she 'll just re-route me to some tedious filing-clerk 's job ! |