Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.

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61 Adoption can be seen as the logical answer to infertility , but as Brebner et al ( 1985 ) point out , if medical investigations/treatment for infertility fail and are performed without adequate psychological support , the subsequent depression and disappointment can cause couples to jump at adoption without recognising those aspects of parenthood which are peculiar to adoptive parenthood , which include : having to be assessed and monitored ; absence of pregnancy and birth ; becoming attached to a child born to someone else ; having to tell the child he or she is adopted .
62 Issues relating to adoption can arise early in placement or after the order and the social worker has stopped visiting , and often centre around how to tell the child he or she is adopted .
63 The skilled negotiator is far more likely to say things that reveal what he or she is thinking , intending and feeling than the less skilled , who reckon that to expose such things is naïve .
64 Similarly , a child who creates dangerous mayhem in the kitchen can not do so if he or she is taught and learns never to enter the kitchen .
65 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 .
66 And , of course , if the bitter-lemon drinker is insisting on one labelled ‘ low calorie ’ , he or she is consuming hardly any calories at all and is to be congratulated .
67 My mouth jams open , and she says that if I really am going , then either she comes with me or she is staying here to pack .
68 For the monocultural classroom , where students and teacher are from one culture , the situation is harder and must rely upon the teacher 's understanding of the language and culture he or she is teaching .
69 Make sure that the baby 's body is facing the breast and that he or she is taking the whole nipple to fill its mouth .
70 To get the Income Support a person must be available for full time work and show that he or she is taking reasonable steps to find a job .
71 It 's the duty of every athlete to be aware of what he or she is taking . ’
72 Since 1979 , the Government has taken three measures to lower the replacement ratio — that is , to increase the gap between a person 's income when in work compared with when he or she is drawing the dole .
73 ( If necessary , allow yourself to become this sub-personality , and experience the hurt , sadness , anger or other emotions he or she is holding . )
74 That is , he or she is viewed as a passive and helpless victim of ruling class , media and state propaganda .
75 Failure to do this will obviously leave the child unprepared to understand and deal with the first time he or she is called ‘ nigger ’ , or some other racial slur .
76 The researcher has to have some idea of what he or she is looking for , even though the outcome may be unpredictable .
77 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 .
78 Or , does the scientist know first , what he or she is looking for , in order then , to select the information he or she needs .
79 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 ) .
80 For any one such machine , the environment within which he or she is competing includes not only the natural environment in the form of air , light , water and food , but also other survival machines .
81 In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position .
82 I myself think that the writer 's relation to things as they are changes according to what he or she is writing .
83 We assume he or she is intending to :
84 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 .
85 An innkeeper has a power of sale in relation to the goods over which he or she is exercising his or her right of lien .
86 More specifically , Enkvist 's paper presents the formal organisation of texts as the outcome of a dynamic decision-making process , in which the writer assigns different values to a variety of different , and often conflicting , parameters ( such as end-weight , metre , rhyme , etc. ) , on the basis of the particular configuration of goals , situational constraints and discoursal conventions in which he or she is operating .
87 Bean , writing a year later in 1984 , supported this view by saying that ‘ when the adopted child is an older child who has already acquired a cultural background and a set of cultural responses , these will have to be unlearned if he or she is to acquire a new cultural identity ’ .
88 Poacher-turned-gamekeeper — a headhunter going back to industry , especially via an assignment he or she is handling — is rarer .
89 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 .
90 These sales leads are closely monitored from the head office and , if the salesperson consistently falls below the average success rate of converting leads into orders , then he or she is dismissed .
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