Example sentences of "on his [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All kinds of pressure may be exerted on the child to keep quiet about the behaviour , with sometimes disastrous effects on his or her emotional development . |
| 2 | Where divorce proceedings are raised in a country other than England ( eg , Canada , Australia or USA ) against a spouse resident in Scotland , which the spouse wishes to defend or where a spouse resident in Scotland wishes to raise divorce proceedings in one of these countries , all a Scottish solicitor is entitled to do under the Scheme is to give the client preliminary advice on his or her legal position and the course of action open . |
| 3 | The satisfaction gained by the author ( pU ) ( besides monetary payment , of course ) is similarly dependent on his or her own cost of production and the reader 's cost of processing ( cI ) . |
| 4 | But it also gives the child feedback on his or her own utterance . |
| 5 | Decisions on the propriety of stocking a particular publication must depend very much on his or her own judgment and good sense , rather than on waiting for legal counsel . |
| 6 | a game , generally of cards , involving any number of players , each playing on his or her own account . |
| 7 | Tough love requires that the family member " lets go " of the primary sufferer and seeks help for himself or herself from the appropriate Family Fellowship , concentrating primarily on his or her own recovery from the addictive urge to fix or control the lives of others . |
| 8 | The Committee further proposed that the Attorney-General should be able to act on his or her own initiative and apply to intervene in an action or to pursue an appeal even where the parties had settled their differences . |
| 9 | This orientation of reader judgement applies to all of the nodes in the network in the same way , disregarding the authorial-judgement ( JU ) orientation which would obviously double the number of parameters ( such an author orientation would be textually constituted by , for example , an interview with a writer on his or her own books ) . |
| 10 | A partner may not submit a dispute to arbitration on his or her own authority . |
| 11 | The specific portfolio chosen by an investor will depend on his or her particular risk-return preferences . |