Example sentences of "his [conj] [pron] [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But in fact it is not necessarily the case that if each person votes , or decides , according to what he or she perceives as his or her personal interest or wishes , the outcome is the good of all or even of the majority . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | It is … clear that for both Nozick and Rawls a society is composed of individuals , each with his or her own interest , who then come together and formulate common rules of life . |
| 6 | That would depend on whether each person acted or voted solely in his or her own interest , or considered the good of the community and acted accordingly . |
| 7 | One might imagine that this is where the real expertise is to be found , where the proprietor might be a famous retired climber scratching a meagre living from the sale of a few anoraks to fuel his or her continuing interest in the hills . |
| 8 | So far as a tenant in common is concerned however , he or she can not release an undivided half share , as a tenant in common is solely seised of his or her respective interest . |