Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] ' [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet the memoirs of these survivors , their dirge , is rarely inscribed in the chroniclers ' sentimental journeys . |
2 | Liberia 's tribal bloodbath was especially awful in the cities ' crowded slums . |
3 | In both cases their parents took decisions for them which , in my view , were not in the boys ' best interests . |
4 | Both SMP [ originating in the boys ' public schools ] and MME [ originating in state secondary schools ] produced proposals for the redefinition of school mathematics that were clearly orientated to the demands of various powerful , i.e. resource-controlling , extra-school groups . |
5 | The grossed up amount of the debt should therefore be included in the taxpayers ' total incomes for higher rate tax purposes . |
6 | So , the experiments produced strong evidence of a rhodopsin-like mechanism in the mites ' extraocular receptors . |
7 | But the much more rigorous policy embodied in the Conservatives ' Industrial Relations Act of 1971 was a revolution in the long story . |
8 | Although these conditions place a premium on the ‘ intangibles ’ of technical and market knowledge , they have not led to full verticality in the firms ' fixed assets . |
9 | ‘ Declare : ( 1 ) That on the taking of the accounts and inquiry order to be made and taken herein by Chief Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 the plaintiffs are entitled to raise objection to items in the defendants ' said accounts on the grounds that the items were and are unreasonable in amount but so that any doubts are to be resolved in favour of the defendants . |
10 | The company took the decision to restate the accounts , Mr Clements added , when it became clear that the delays and uncertainties involved would not be in the shareholders ' best interests . |
11 | The second fastest qualifier in the 200m individual medley is Esso England junior squad member Susan Rolph ( Newcastle ) , also the likely gold medallist in the girls ' 14 years 100m backstroke . |
12 | England youth squad member Lee Dalzell ( GatesheadWhickham ) clearly heads the qualifiers in the girls ' 15 years 100m breaststroke . |
13 | The solution lies firmly in the farmers ' own hands |
14 | Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies ' international networks . |
15 | All the doors were closed in the owners ' sleeping cars ( there were almost no open sections in those ) , the inhabitants there having the habit of privacy . |
16 | Nevertheless , when asked about the way the societies sold insurance , 49 per cent of customers said they trusted their society to sell them only those products and services which were in the customers ' best interests . |
17 | CONFIDENCE in the New Zealand camp , following their yacht 's performances in the challengers ' semi-final races of the American Cup trials off San Deigo , is not at its highest . |
18 | All answers had to be remembered in the mothers ' own words . |
19 | There were no significant changes in the employees ' substantive terms and conditions , except in relation to union recognition . |
20 | The scullions ahead of him got down off their stools and waddled away , disappearing in the kitchens ' foggy wastes . |
21 | Shortages of professional staff are very severe in some places and over-reliance on foreign staff is not always in the patients ' best interests in an area where personal communication is so important . |
22 | The practice of stopping NSAIDs before investigation or starting H 2 antagonists for a clinical diagnosis of peptic ulceration seems to be in the patients ' best interests if a delay in endoscopy is unavoidable , but may lead to failure to find a definitive cause for the anaemia . |
23 | Furthermore , is it not rash to say that it is to be carried out only in the patients ' best interests ? |
24 | A version of it had been announced by Faber and Faber , as " Mr Eliot 's Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to Him by the Man in White Spats " , in the spring of 1936 ; the blurb , written either by Frank Morley or by Eliot himself , explained that " several of the poems , illustrated by the author , have been in private circulation in the Publishers ' various families for a considerable time … " |
25 | Made for television and to be shown at Easter , it is about Lawrence of Arabia , or rather Lawrence after Arabia , back from the desert and involved in the Allies ' post-war negotiations over the map of the Middle East . |
26 | The firm had around £600,000 in the clients ' managed accounts . |
27 | It encourages us to believe we can take a protective attitude , by acting in the clients ' 'best interests ' , in making decisions about what stock to provide . |
28 | The lexical items marked by the informants can be seen as the linguistic realisations of elements in the readers ' constructed text-worlds , which are used isomorphically to perceive the coherence of the reading . |
29 | The limitations of this study as an approach to consumption in general derive not only from a rather unbalanced subjectivism in the authors ' theoretical models , but also from the particular selection of objects of concern . |
30 | We were particularly interested in the practices ' subjective assessments of the impact of this change on practice management and patient care . |