Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] their [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way would be to form a holding company to which both banks would issue shares in proportion to their shareholders ' funds . |
| 2 | Mainstream teachers and heads of language departments often seem to be lacking in knowledge of their pupils ' languages . |
| 3 | As with the other two scales of population redistribution surveyed above , the distinction between the inner and outer parts of individual cities and towns in terms of their inhabitants ' relative prosperity is not new , nor is it unique in Britain ( Herbert , 1972 ) . |
| 4 | Companies operating in a competitive environment have always been interested in details of their competitors ' performance , and the operation of market forces ensures that those that fail to match their competitors also fail to survive . |
| 5 | The babies born to Welsh and English parents were , in contrast , sometimes placed in cots in their parents ' rooms for a period of two to three months , and then encouraged ( close to the peak age for the sudden infant death syndrome ) to ‘ get used ’ to sleeping alone , where possible in their own rooms . |
| 6 | The employees appealed and it was held , allowing the appeal , that the industrial tribunal had erred in law in holding that an intention to compete in the future with their employers expressed by the employees in letters to their employers ' suppliers was in itself a breach of a duty of fidelity owed by the employees to the employers and that accordingly the dismissals had been unfair . |
| 7 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |