Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] ' [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the south 's top-staying chasers will be in action at Tweseldown , lining up for the areas ' longest race — the Field Seymour Parks four-mile mixed open . |
| 2 | But even that did n't get him to Barcelona for the Olympics ' newest sport . |
| 3 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 4 | Ribble Valley achieved brief fame at the 1991 by-election when the Liberal Democrats ' Mike Carr captured one of the Tories ' safest seats . |
| 5 | Law and order should be one of the Tories ' strongest cards , but record crime figures have tarnished their record . |
| 6 | The Commission welcomes the much improved standard of instrumental playing which is one of the schools ' greatest recent success stories . |
| 7 | Despite the fund-raisers ' best efforts there was no disguising the fact that Telethon '92 had n't lived up to expectations . |
| 8 | In both cases their parents took decisions for them which , in my view , were not in the boys ' best interests . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ONE of the happiest men in Basildon was Joe Mills , an Essex University student from Harlow , who claimed the 800 metres title by just four-hundredths of a second in the Championships ' best race . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Furthermore , is it not rash to say that it is to be carried out only in the patients ' best interests ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This Tank Girl-style posse is only seven months old , but already it has grown beyond the founders ' wildest dreams . |
| 17 | This naturally gives an advantage to the institutions ' closest advisers : American investment banks . |