Example sentences of "he [conj] she [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she is best placed to give you legal advice , and to liaise with the other professional agencies involved . |
| 2 | The teacher may lead the discussion or the activity , but he or she is also learning from the students . |
| 3 | He or she is certainly making a commitment to trust God . |
| 4 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
| 5 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 6 | If the character moves sideways with the head , body and arms in some way averted from the front , i.e. croisé , possibly with a twist of the shoulders , he or she is usually playing some evil or cunning person . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He or she is actually trying to exercise power over nurse or mother . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In most universities , he or she is often called the vice-chancellor — the title " chancellor " being reserved for another notable figure who fills that largely ceremonial and dignified office . |