Example sentences of "of his [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Tout Washington adored him ; no other place was so lavish as the Iranian embassy on Massachusetts Avenue , with its mirror-domed ceilings , its drapes and its silks , all dominated by two full-length portraits of His and Her Imperial Majesties and brought alive by the bounding , capacious personality of Zahedi , the ultimate host . |
| 2 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 3 | Therefore , if the investor refuses the offer to buy a further 250 shares , the price of his or her existing shares will fall by 11p each . |
| 4 | It is also suggested that the taxability of removal expenses where a foreign national comes to the UK but does not dispose of his or her existing house should not be taxable . |
| 5 | The practical politician will not be tied by a commitment to rigid policy objectives , but will search for a high level of consensus around a policy generally favourable to the viewpoint of his or her political party . |
| 6 | Because , while being regressed , the patient is well aware of his or her present-day persona in addition to the previous one , Myra found it very distressing to think that she had been so happy to go along with all Hugh 's demands . |
| 7 | As part of his or her normal role in the county , each DCSL visits every school in the division at least once a term , and the project gives an added dimension to these visits . |
| 8 | The negotiation and offer would be limited on the one hand by the school 's ability/willingness to use different initiatives and on the other by the head of service 's management of his or her total team resource and his or her balance of support to all the schools in the team 's catchment area . |
| 9 | Conversely , the sufferer from addictive disease can not stop and denies the causal connection even up to his or her own death while blaming environmental pollution , an influenza epidemic , stress or any other external factor as the cause of his or her increasing disability . |
| 10 | It follows that an individual 's patterns of thought are conditioned by the nature of his or her first language . |
| 11 | Still , it should be pointed out that the average Soviet citizen 's contact with the courts was likely to be as unpolitical as that of his or her Western counterpart , and he or she was no more likely to be dealt with unjustly in the run-of-the-mill case ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 192–7 ) . |
| 12 | The exact place of birth is not recorded ; all that was required was a tick in the Yes or No column in answer to the question of whether or not a person was born in the county of his or her present residence . |
| 13 | Information facilities are applied throughout the review ranging from interactive modelling of the effects of wage awards on company pay structure , through the collection of performance information and the derivation of new payments for each employee , to the eventual production , via a word processor interface , of a personalised letter informing each individual of his or her new salary . |
| 14 | Shall be to promote a spirit of brotherhood among the Members , stir up a desire for self improvement , smooth and tone down the angularities so largely the product of isolated effort , encourage and stimulate individual endeavour , and in short do everything possible to assist each Member to make the most of his or her God-given talents . |
| 15 | The big danger , for the Westerner , is to go overboard : to cram too much into a small area , and to judge the ‘ success ’ of his or her Japanese garden by how many lanterns , pagodas and pieces of statuary it contains . |
| 16 | Where part of the estate consisted of a ‘ matrimonial home ’ , i.e. a house in which the surviving spouse was resident at the time of the death , the spouse may normally require the representatives to appropriate the deceased 's interest in the house in or towards the satisfaction of his or her absolute interest in the estate . |
| 17 | Last amongst these devices for the protection of interests in registered land , is the restriction on the powers of registered proprietors to deal with their land ; for example , that partnership property shall not be disposed of after the death of one of the partners without the consent of his or her personal representatives ; or that no disposition is to be registered without the consent of the proprietor of a registered charge ( this last one a not uncommon precaution of building societies ) . |
| 18 | It is possible to assign to an individual a numerical score which reflects the structure of his or her personal network with reference to the key concepts of multiplexity and density . |
| 19 | Write down further examples of where you yourself are aware of episodes of caretaking for the addict in your life in order to diminish the damaging consequences of his or her addictive disease and give " just one more chance " for him or her to get straight . |
| 20 | A more considered approach which involves the salesperson identifying the needs of his or her individual customers and then selling the benefits of the product in order to satisfy those needs is more likely to be successful . |
| 21 | Far from being a conclusion of the ‘ consumer-led ’ revolution beloved of propagandists , the change is the child of a retail revolution which , for the consumer , constitutes only a re-arrangement of his or her individual powerlessness . ’ |
| 22 | They operate on the assumption that every individual is the best judge of his or her real interest and they define interest groups in terms of " shared attitudes " . |
| 23 | There now follows more practical advice upon what must be regarded as an extremely important part of the personal selling process , for without a demonstration the salesperson is devoid of one of his or her principal selling tools . |
| 24 | While the ombudsman has revealed the occasional bureaucratic horror story , he or she lacks some of the powers of his or her opposite number in other systems . |
| 25 | What is the nature of his or her particular attributes , his or her particular ideas ? |
| 26 | Everyone has an implicit knowledge of the grammar of his or her native language(s) . |
| 27 | In trying to answer the question " where does a child 's control of his or her native language come from ? " , two contrasting theoretical explanations have come to dominate discussion . |
| 28 | The interpreter Kelly functions as a surrogate for the reader who is ashamed of his or her literary ignorance : ‘ Gaps , so many gaps in her reading , she 'll never catch up ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 29 | The ideal manager is now regarded as a coach who helps others develop their skills and can act as a role model , rather than as an authoritarian figure issuing orders by virtue of his or her overt status . |
| 30 | Within six months after termination , the employee would not ‘ engage in or undertake the trade or business of an employment agency ’ in Greater London , within a 1km radius of his or her old branch . |