Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Use this where your employee has not entitlement to SSP or where that entitlement has run out but he or she is still sick . |
| 32 | If Ayer then tells the theist that he or she is still unable to make meaningful theological statements , then it can not surely be on the basis of the verification principle , the principle by which he claims to distinguish meaningful from meaningless statements . |
| 33 | Later comes a point of being unable to accept the loss , very often searching for the person who has gone and thinking that he or she is still there . |
| 34 | The second problem is that even if a motorist — despite all the odds — actually adheres to the recommended limits , all the evidence points to the fact that he or she is still driving too fast for the safety of local residents . |
| 35 | This is not to say that the child or young person is always right ; it is , perhaps , to say that he or she is seldom completely wrong . |
| 36 | But you can not expect another to carry out a task if he or she is constantly being observed by someone else . |
| 37 | Tamed instincts may protect the individual from vulnerability to external aggression or from emotional abandonment by one to whom he or she is fully committed in an act of love ; but in the process they also render life experiences flat and stand in the way of necessary instinctual release . |
| 38 | The role of the consultant psychogeriatrician in this service is different from that in the conventional model ; rather than being the principal performer of the initial diagnostic assessments , he or she is directly involved in assessing only dubious , difficult , and urgent cases . |
| 39 | When he or she is perhaps overwhelmed by events , offers of practical help may be exactly what the person could do with , rather than being asked to confront difficult emotional reactions . |
| 40 | This stressed-out poor performer is motivated by the fear that he or she is highly disposable , and that if they ease up on their workload the axe will fall . |
| 41 | ‘ Honda 's fitment of airbags , ahead of its competitors , meets the greatest remaining problem with current seatbelts — that of the driver 's face striking the steering wheel even when he or she is correctly restrained ’ |
| 42 | Where a registered foreign lawyer who would , apart from this rule , be required to pay an annual contribution or special levy , claims , and the Council agrees , that he or she is so covered in respect of dishonesty or failure to account , whether by a compensation fund other than the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund , or by an indemnity fund other than the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund , or by compulsory insurance , that there is a substantial reduction in the risk to the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund in respect of his or her practice in comparison with the risk presented by a solicitor practising in a like manner , the Council may reduce that annual contribution or special levy to such amount as the Council thinks fit or to zero . |
| 43 | The older youngster , on the other hand , may have a very real and concrete sexual difficulty of which he or she is perfectly conscious . |
| 44 | Society tells your drug friend living in the squats that he or she is incurably evil . |
| 45 | Such a figure is based to some extent on notional accounting — an expert 's time per hour is , for example , assessed at a much higher rate than he or she is actually paid — but it indicates the profit margins which both houses need to maintain . |
| 46 | He or she is actually trying to exercise power over nurse or mother . |
| 47 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 48 | The reason for this , I later discovered , is that at yours there is likely to be a selection of friends and relations , one of whom in the course of discussion is bound to say , ‘ Come on , let's give him the best ! ’ and although he or she is very seldom the one who is paying for it , no one likes to appear mean at such a time — an attitude , I might add , of which the undertaker thoroughly approves ! |
| 49 | In as far as there is an average Japanese , he or she is very much a town dweller . |
| 50 | If the idea originator wishes to proceed , he or she is then asked to prepare a brief , one or two page description , sometimes referred to as an idea memorandum ( IM ) . |
| 51 | Strike up some personal rapport with the person in charge Of the centre so that he or she is more likely to go that extra mile for you . |
| 52 | A great many assessment systems are competitive in that the extrinsic rewards they offer are in short supply and each student who wants them is asked to demonstrate that he or she is more deserving than others , or others are less deserving . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | For example , expressed guilt may be so deep as to become delusional , generalised to the point where the individual believes that he or she is personally responsible for some major catastrophe or for all of the evil that exists in the world . |
| 55 | You ca n't make an individual schedule appear which includes both the tasks the person is responsible for and the ones he or she is merely involved in . |
| 56 | Practitioners seem to accept that worthy cases of mercy killing invariably have this outcome , but this informal approach provides the defendant with no legal basis for a defence — he or she is truly at the mercy of the psychiatrists , the prosecutor , and the judge . |
| 57 | If a member leaves the band , he or she is only responsible for the debts incurred prior to his or her leaving . |
| 58 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 59 | He or she is certainly making a commitment to trust God . |
| 60 | It is the doctor 's job to tell the patient or the patient 's family , when he or she is terminally ill , but once the diagnosis and prognosis have been given , the nurse copes with the emotional effects . |