Example sentences of "he or she [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he or she would also be able to initiate the sort of actions which , under the present system , might never be brought because of lack of funds or problems of co-ordination , or because prospective applicants , by reason of social deprivation or lack of education , do not have the human resources to speak for themselves . |
| 2 | Simply , the need for delegation arises where one person feels it appropriate to ask a subordinate to carry out tasks which he or she would normally do . |
| 3 | In order to test it he or she would presumably have to examine a number of literate and non-literate societies from the point of view of their degree of ‘ scepticism ’ . |
| 4 | Yes , the cases quoted are clear ones , in which carers have been in the home for a long time , but obviously we would wish to avoid a position in which the carer was in the home for a short time in the expectation that he or she would then be allowed to stay there . |
| 5 | He or she might also be responsible for a large department providing the bibliographical services of cataloguing , reservations and interloans . |
| 6 | If your spouse starts to feel slightly insecure ( because other people find you attractive now ) he or she might well say you looked better when you were ‘ cuddly ’ . |
| 7 | To that end , a solicitor may give oral or written advice on the application of English law to any particular circumstances in relation to the person seeking the advice , and on any steps which he or she might appropriately take . |
| 8 | He or she may even be the local greengrocer who hears a band rehearsing down the road in the village hall . |
| 9 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 10 | By personal charisma and/or alliance with other fonctionnaires with a more direct professional stake in curriculum content and delivery ( especially , inspectors ) , he or she may also and exceptionally become a ‘ curriculum leader ’ in the British sense , but that is achieved at the cost of encroaching upon the formal responsibility of other professionals . |
| 11 | He or she may also have vomiting and possibly diarrhoea . |
| 12 | He or she may also be able to claim the cost of any parts already ordered to do the job and any labour charges over the £25 deposit you paid . |
| 13 | He or she may also suspect that the manager has far greater access to a lot of useful information . |
| 14 | However , he or she may also render all the partners collectively liable . |
| 15 | But , if there is a further " selecting " qualifier , such as only , and if the speaker sees the latter as focusing on the property of the adjective , then it is quite reasonable that he or she may also feel it necessary to mark this focal adjectival property as one to be explicitly assigned , rather than being an ordinary part of the identificatory bundle . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 17 | Regardless of the experience of your senior nurse momentary aberrations do occur , particularly under pressure , and he or she may simply not have realised the implications of what was being asked . |
| 18 | But in fact , he or she may well be in a privileged position . |
| 19 | When the other person is less formal and more forthcoming , he or she may well feel compromised by their self-disclosure which has not been reciprocated . |
| 20 | He or she may well progress from one to the other . |
| 21 | He or she may now buy 5 per cent of the equity of the ungeared firm , ABC Ltd , for 12,500 and receive an expected return of 2,000 [ ( 0.05 ) ( 40,000 ) ] . |
| 22 | Developing awareness of individual need within the family is the objective , and failure occurs when the counsellor so upsets certain family members , particularly the more powerful , that he or she can no longer have any impact on the family dynamic . |
| 23 | He or she can also help negotiate agreements between spouses , conduct proceedings in court or advise on conciliation and other services . |
| 24 | The family member also progressively adapts so that the effects of the disease are largely the progressive effects of that adaptation — The disease always gets worse if it is not treated but nonetheless the family member develops ways in which he or she can somehow live with the disease . |
| 25 | ‘ Depending on the personality of the child , he or she can either become destructive or switch off completely . |
| 26 | The LIFESPAN Manager should therefore study the rest of this section , so that he or she can either take the recommended avoiding action , or at least understand what is happening if any of the users become confused . |
| 27 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |
| 28 | i Hero : This child believes that he or she can only obtain love and appreciation through achievement . |
| 29 | If the manager lacks the chance to engage in a fully collegial approach , if he or she can only find or make time for the essential step of ingesting or thinking new ideas in an atmosphere of enforced professional seclusion , does this obscure his or her clarity of mind ? |
| 30 | The manager has to be clear about the purpose of improvement and will use knowledge and support which can be brought from other places into the field which he or she can directly manage . |