Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the tests applied are sufficiently broad to catch material which encourages the use of dangerous drugs or which advocates criminal violence . |
| 2 | More difficult to assess is the toxic reaction of an odour , that is an effect ‘ which may influence survival or which produces unfavourable changes in the gross and microscopic appearance of organs or tissues or in the entire organism ’ . |
| 3 | There is close co-operation with other departments in the Faculty , so that research which involves international or European law , or other branches of law , or which has theoretical dimensions , may also be pursued . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the Secretary of State for the Environment is empowered to ‘ charge cap ’ local authorities , either by setting a universal limit or by singling out those authorities whose levels of Community Charge he or she considers excessive . |
| 5 | It is by no means altogether improbable , for instance , that some ordinary person on the periphery of a murder should be so disturbed by some apparent contradiction of character that he or she feels obliged to talk about it to others involved , and thus gradually comes to unearth the secret of character you have put at the heart of your story . |
| 6 | And so , when faced with something he or she feels unsure about , they seek security from the more confident ( and usually more dominant ) dog , which has been allowed to learn independence and develop a one-to-one relationship with the owner . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Management by exception enables a manager to devote his or her energies to significant deviations ; this does not mean that he or she ignores all other results but it helps to focus managerial effort . |
| 9 | A tutor-organiser ( or equivalent ) who as a professional employee is susceptible to discipline if he or she proves negligent or misguided , can help to ensure that the voluntary movement lives up to its obligations — through advice and encouragement as far as possible , through seizing the initiative himself if there is no alternative . |
| 10 | Since sociologists of deviance are interested in why people become deviant and/or perpetrate criminal acts , it is obviously important to locate the deviant , whether male or female , squarely within the social context in which he or she becomes deviant . |
| 11 | Once a minister seeks to enact policies that require the expenditure of ‘ new money ’ he or she becomes engaged in what is inevitably a more difficult political exercise . |
| 12 | If the individual can always predict what will happen after the first drink then he or she is probably not alcoholic and may have no need of a 12 Step recovery programme and therefore can not be said to relapse if occasionally he or she gets drunk . |
| 13 | If that is n't why he or she gets involved , the manager should n't be doing the job . |
| 14 | For someone suffering from addiction there is no such thing as free choice : he or she gets unconditional damage from the addictive use of drugs or alcohol . |
| 15 | If the sociologist is present at the moment of speech-production , whether as observer or interviewer , then he or she plays some part in the creation of the dialogue . |
| 16 | The marine invertebrate keeper will encounter more uninvited guests than other hobbyists if he or she uses living rock to decorate their tanks . |
| 17 | All too easily , he or she forms subjective opinions about the relative sales potential of different territories , but lacks an objective framework for setting sales quotas . |
| 18 | Implicit contract theory suggests that if the agent is risk neutral , he or she takes all the risk . |
| 19 | But once he or she takes that first drink in any day there is no prediction of when that drinking bout will stop . |
| 20 | The second ballot is final , and the candidate with the most votes is elected , whether he or she wins more than half the votes or not . |
| 21 | For our purposes the most apposite is the description of a course of life in terms of the growth of reputation or the loss of public standing undergone by an individual as he or she meets this or that social hazard . |
| 22 | See that your client initials all alterations to any document executed , and that he or she signs any plan attached to it — this being unnecessary , however , if the plan is drawn on the actual document . |
| 23 | On the other hand , he or she disposes this increased income over a wider range of services , many of which ( it is asserted ) are less capable of automation ( increased productivity ) than is the case in production of industrial goods . |
| 24 | If the new person shows any signs of shock or fright , or if he or she stays purple for too long then give one dose of Aconite M . |
| 25 | Perhaps this is because they really are wanting or perhaps it is because the professional refuses to take on a role that the parents want but that he or she thinks unsuitable . |
| 26 | In return the chief sales executive may be wary of the manager , because he or she seeks higher overt status and the manager is blocking this . |
| 27 | Probably the most accurate statement would be that a person intends to kill if it is his or her purpose to kill by the act or omission charged , or if he or she foresees that death is practically certain to follow from that act or omission . |
| 28 | He or she brings good sight and the beginnings of visual discrimination . |
| 29 | The necessity for longer periods with individual readers has begun to affect the organisation of reading in the classroom ; the teacher finds that he or she needs more time . |
| 30 | The manager may be wary of the chief sales executive because he or she is the obvious choice to replace the manager , since he or she enjoys high active status with the rest of the team . |