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

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91 when he or she is asked to refrain from a particular activity ;
92 He or she is trying to locate areas of tension that may be fixed in your body .
93 He or she is trying to get a very clear picture of what you can do so that they can place you accurately and not send you on too many pointless interviews .
94 Ask yourself ( a ) whether the writer tells you what he or she is trying to do ; ( b ) whether they succeed in doing it ; and ( c ) whether they convince you it was worth doing !
95 The trainee feels that he or she is flying a real aircraft , and can see the view from the cockpit just as if ( s ) he were actually approaching the runway at a particular airport .
96 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 .
97 The sociologist 's approach is shaped by the general aims of sociology and by the particular perspective within which he or she is working .
98 Providing opportunities runs through two aspects of management : unless colleagues are given the opportunity to understand the world outside education , unless they have the opportunity to look around and to come to some new conclusions of their own about what they are doing , the head will say that he or she is failing .
99 The telling of atrocity stories is therefore a highly structured occasion which reveals little about the teller other than that he or she is performing a ritual for a contextually specific purpose .
100 Gently move your partner 's head to the middle so that he or she is lying straight once more .
101 While it is important to be friendly and cooperative , the researcher should also try to avoid making friends ( or enemies ) of those he or she is studying .
102 This guiding principle of participant observation — that the observer should be part of the setting which he or she is studying — was followed as closely as possible in the other communities .
103 In higher education , we naturally believe that a fundamental aspect of the student 's programme of studies consists of getting the student on the inside of just such internal standards of reasoning in the discipline he or she is studying .
104 " Lucid " dreaming , when the dreamer " knows " that he or she is dreaming , and makes decisions about how the dream plot should develop , is rare .
105 Instances of " lucid " dreaming , when the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming , are rare , even among those who claim to experience it frequently .
106 Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company .
107 Ideally , the manager should be there at the beginning of a band 's professional career because he or she is going to operate the various deals which are set up .
108 A keen apiarist , standing among the hives , will soon have to produce a piece of paper and a pencil if he or she is going to explain bee behaviour to a group of children .
109 The main thing the well-prepared learner brings to the task is positive expectations — expectations that reading will bring rewards of pleasure and understanding , and that he or she is going to learn to read and to enjoy the learning .
110 The onset of symptoms is very sudden and the outstanding ones are anxiety and restlessness and a terrible fear that he or she is going to die .
111 If you are convinced that he or she is going to hurt you and you ca n't escape , you may even hit out as they come forward .
112 Obviously , the researcher will have some pre-defined ideas of what he or she is going to look at , but usually the experience of working with an organisation or group will suggest new possibilities , new questions to be asked and pursued .
113 The relative worth of each of these is dependent upon both the user 's aspirations and the sort of document that he or she is going to produce .
114 He 's going to tr she , he or she is going to try and go now .
115 Or she is going with you cos they force her .
116 But if , by any chance , the reporter 's wife or husband also happens to be an Environmental Health Officer somewhere else , and happens to know that he or she is going off to do an interview , and say , ‘ Hey .
117 He or she is remembered in prayer and asked to in turn pray for the person 's desired object .
118 The kind of information which a long-term participant observer receives must be treated with the greatest circumspection , for it depends ultimately not on whether he or she is carrying a tape-recorder , but on the degree of trust , mutual confiding and general affinity which has developed between researcher and subjects .
119 Wherever you are grabbed , you can not be stopped using at least some of these weapons , and every time one hits home , the attacker 's pain will increase until he or she is forced to loosen the grip .
120 If the runner can be told exactly why he or she is doing a particular type of training , what bodily changes it will bring about and how he or she should run to achieve them , then those 15 minutes a day of quality training are more than enough .
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