Example sentences of "[coord] she is [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Every person , whether at the most junior or the most senior level , has someone to whom he or she is accountable for doing the job properly .
2 He or she is accountable to the education committee , on which elected councillors form the majority ( see Chapter 6 ) .
3 He or she is disadvantaged , dissident or deviant in relation to a great mass of laws , norms and customs which regulate the society of which both the client and the social worker are a part .
4 The survivor can cope with the fact that the dead person may not be physically present , but feels that he or she is present in every other way .
5 Owing to the provisions of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland and Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Brown [ 1981 ] AC 487 it would be prudent to obtain the consent to the conveyance from any other occupier of the matrimonial home aged 18 years or more , coupled with confirmation from such occupier that he or she is agreeable to the rights of the mortgagee taking priority over his or her rights in the property or its proceeds of sale .
6 The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ .
7 There is one other significant point to be remembered , and that is that the person who suffers from what appears to be an illogical fear always feels that he or she is stupid .
8 If the client ca n't be dissuaded , the Law Society has directed that the following steps by a solicitor are obligatory : ( 1 ) A solicitor must , with his clients ' authority , at once disclose in writing his clients ' decisions to the solicitor for each prospective buyer ( or to the prospective buyer if he or she is unrepresented ) .
9 Sometimes they are told to demonstrate what new recruits ( and the field-worker ) can expect ; on other occasions they are told to illustrate the funny or the tragic sides of policing ; or are used as a vehicle for the story-teller to display some features about him or herself , such as his or her experience and skill and ability in handling all things , and that he or she is professional in being able to talk about horror in a cold and detached manner .
10 If a reader ever expects to do more about the stringing of an old keyboard instrument ( or a modern instrument designed after one ) than replacing broken strings , it is essential that he or she is familiar with this book .
11 If he or she is married the sentence is death by stoning , beheading or shooting .
12 The sufferer genuinely believes that he or she is normal and that the world has problems and so do the people who " run " the world .
13 The message to the consumer of these services , if he or she is dissatisfied , must be to ‘ vote with your feet ’ .
14 You might wonder how pharmacists decipher a doctor 's scrawl but do n't worry that you 'll get the wrong drugs — a pharmacist will never dispense a prescription unless he or she is sure it is correct and will often ring the doctor .
15 At best , he or she is crucial to the successful running of several accounts and , therefore , the agency .
16 Although hypothermia can happen accidentally , it is essentially an insidious condition that can happen over several hours , the victim becoming sleepier and sleepier in this time and not realising that he or she is freezing to death .
17 Partners can be accused of anything and the department sets into motion as if he or she is guilty .
18 The client must be told that if at any stage he or she is anxious about the conduct of the matter , they should communicate immediately with the fee earner who is handling the case .
19 Because such structures are ‘ conventional , and hence culturally variable ’ ( van Dijk and Kintsch 1983:16 ) the language learner , in order to be able to operate effectively as a participant in discourse , needs to be able both to identify what type of discourse he or she is involved in , and to predict how it will typically be structured .
20 All such a person can say , quoting Dicey , is that he or she is free to do that which no law prohibits .
21 For example , the plaintiff asserts that he or she owns Blackacre and the defendant denies it ; or the plaintiff asserts that he or she is entitled to compensation from the defendant and the latter denies it .
22 For the incoming purchaser will want to know what he or she is entitled to use as their own and the outgoing seller will want to know what he or she can remove .
23 Telling a child that he or she is bad when they have behaved wrongly is common in the West , but as Susan Sontag has observed , it is unheard of in the East , where the child would be told to be ashamed of itself .
24 Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine , they still think that he or she is wonderful .
25 The Criminal Justice Act 1972 provides for the Attorney-General to be able to refer a case to the Court of Appeal when he or she is concerned with the law applied by the Crown Court .
26 What does the child do when he or she is naughty ?
27 The existing knowledge about the employee from inside the organization makes it easier to decide whether he or she is able to perform the work well .
28 But it is paramount that the soloist be so directly acquainted with the score that he or she is able to offer us a personal interpretation of it ; in a sense , a critical commentary on it .
29 If you have consulted the proxy and confirmed that he or she is able and willing to vote for you that is enough .
30 The prime responsibility , however , rests with the individual counsellor to establish supportive relationships in which he or she is able to feel that stress is contained and processed and that feedback from those relationships is given in an honest and constructive manner .
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