Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] [art] interests " in BNC.

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1 Caroline Willbourne , a London barrister specialising in family law , said decriminalisation of sexual offences within the family where the offender admitted the abuse was in the interests of child victims .
2 The power to make their own awards was in the interests not only of the polytechnics , but also of higher education as a whole .
3 This general argument was in the interests of large users of telecommunications who thought they were subsidizing small and local users .
4 Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public .
5 He was asked about the secrecy involved and the necessity for the early morning raids , and he answered that both the Society 's and the Council 's major concern was for the interests and feelings of the children , and that necessitated confidentiality .
6 By a notice of appeal dated 24 December 1991 the local authority appealed with leave of the judge on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law or misdirected himself as to the criteria to be applied to the decision whether leave should be granted in respect of an application by a former foster parent ; ( 2 ) the judge should have applied the test whether ( a ) there were quite exceptional circumstances disclosed necessitating the ousting of the local authority and the consequent discharge of the care order , and ( b ) there was a real likelihood that the applicant could persuade the court to adopt that course and ( c ) such a course was in the interests of the children ; ( 3 ) alternatively , if the judge had adopted the correct test , his exercise of his discretion had been plainly wrong in that he had failed to give any or sufficient weight to ( a ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation , ( b ) the fact that if residence orders were made the care order would be discharged , ( c ) the shared responsibility between the foster mother and the mother resulting from section 12(2) of the Act of 1989 , ( d ) the fact that the foster mother 's proper remedy was her application for judicial review , and ( e ) the wishes of the children and the mother .
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