Example sentences of "his [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Like the Development Wheel and Village Quality of Life Index , Past Now Future summarises the village 's discussion , taking each person outside his or her immediate situation to consider the history of the village in a development context . |
| 3 | This is seen as an important means of getting away from the elitist concept and encouraging everyone to take a longer view , even if his or her immediate task involves short-term objectives . |
| 4 | The LTQ training programme began at the top of the organization and ‘ cascaded ’ downwards with each manager training his or her immediate subordinates in the process . |
| 5 | A standard format is to be introduced which will have to include the following : a detailed programme of activities which might enable the offender to make reparation through community service or a supervision programme tackling the offender 's problems ; a description of the restrictions on liberty which the programme would involve ; relevant information about the offence and the offender , including the latter 's attitude towards it ; and an assessment of the offender 's ability and willingness to tackle his or her offending behaviour . |
| 6 | While the chain image is not entirely appropriate , since varying responsibilities and degrees of autonomy are involved , and individuals in the chain may be bypassed , it is important to acknowledge that implementation may depend upon the following series of links : education committee , chief education officer and his or her administrative staff , local authority inspectors , school governors and managers , head teachers , departmental heads within the schools , and class teachers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The child may have a low tolerance to frustration and his or her emotional reaction may erupt out of control . |
| 9 | From mediaeval times , the sovereign and his or her principal ministers have consulted with the judges , those ‘ lions under the throne ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I reasoned that this was where I would find a small breeder advertising his or her first clutches of chicks for sale — someone who was n't big enough to justify advertising all year round . |
| 12 | Dr Sharon Camp , who edited the Index , said : ‘ A child born in Mozambique today can expect to live only 48 years and has a one in seven chance of dying before his or her first birthday . |
| 13 | It follows that an individual 's patterns of thought are conditioned by the nature of his or her first language . |
| 14 | According to John Landon , senior lecturer in multicultural education at Edinburgh 's Moray House College , a child who appears to be fluent in English in spite of its not being his or her first language may still be unable to cope with testing in English . |
| 15 | Indeed the information about his or her new position could be almost as useful as the name of the new incumbent of the old job . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For the adolescent boy or girl , the confusion may be worsened by growing evidence for him or her that previous ideas and attitudes , based entirely on childhood experience , may not be appropriate in his or her new relationships or in the new society of which the youngster is now accepted as part . |
| 18 | What I do stress is that the judge should approach the exercise of the discretion with a predilection to give effect to the child 's wishes on the basis that prima facie that will be in his or her best interests . |
| 19 | If the patient lacks the requisite capacity , then the doctors must act in what they perceive to be his or her best interests , with information garnered from previous knowledge of the patient , discussion with family and friends , and taking into account any relevant directive previously made by the patient . |
| 20 | Now in Katsikas the Court has asserted that the Directive does not require the employee to take advantage of the transfer provisions if he or she decides that it is not in his or her best interests to do so . |
| 21 | Also , the manager is expected to use his or her best endeavours to promote the artist 's career , while the artist should do nothing to jeopardize the reputation of the manager . |
| 22 | P The seller shall use his or her best endeavours to procure the lessor 's licence to assign and the buyer shall use his or her best endeavours to supply all references and information reasonably required by the lessor . |
| 23 | P The seller shall use his or her best endeavours to procure the lessor 's licence to assign and the buyer shall use his or her best endeavours to supply all references and information reasonably required by the lessor . |
| 24 | One of the consequences of this reluctance to surrender autonomy is an extreme difficulty in organizing any collective action unless everyone can be convinced that it is in his or her best interest . |
| 25 | The first session , after I have finished speaking , will involve 12 speakers addressing you on the theme of the conference , each from his or her specific perspective . |
| 26 | However , no artist has an inherent right to claim taxpayer support for his or her private vision of art if that vision mocks the moral and spiritual basis on which our society is founded . |
| 27 | Before the whites came , he went on , no one in Australia was landless , since everyone inherited , as his or her private property , a stretch of the Ancestor 's song and the stretch of country over which the song passed . |
| 28 | In these life stories , then , each user is providing an interpretation of past actions which is intimately linked to his or her present-day existence . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In addition , the local authority has the power to determine the extent to which a parent may exercise his or her parental responsibility but may only exercise this power where necessary to safeguard or promote the child 's welfare ( s33(3) ( b ) ( 4 ) ) . |