Example sentences of "[adv] in the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Masnun was out of sight from a poor draw in his last race at Kempton , but ran much better in the Stewards ' Cup here and he 's well in today on his best form . |
2 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
3 | She had witnessed the on-off charm for herself when he had thought himself alone in the Feathers ' coffee-room . |
4 | The pervasive influence of a combative religious morality was evident not only in the repealers ' language but in the common culture which bound many of them together . |
5 | In the aftermath of the Maria Colwell tragedy a report by the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work took this concept as its title and stated that ‘ good enough parenting involves , among other things , a capacity to provide continuity of love and care which is realistic in its expectations of both parent and child and deals with ‘ real ’ conflicts of interests and not those whose origins lie only in the parents ' past' ( CCETSW , 1978 ) . |
6 | Furthermore , is it not rash to say that it is to be carried out only in the patients ' best interests ? |
7 | On National day John Kempton also had a runner at Worcester — Three Dons in a novice hurdle — and opted to take the ride there : having duly won , he settled down in the jockeys ' changing room to watch the National on television , safe in the knowledge that his father Jack was at Liverpool to supervise Foinavon 's forlorn attempt . |
8 | Down in the photographers ' pit , a battalion of WWF security gentlemen keep the writhing , crowd-surfing mob back by redirecting those two-minute messiahs that get passed too close to the barrier . |
9 | It was a feast , swilled down in the boys ' case at least . |
10 | In response to this new determination by ministers , Government Whips began to huddle together in the Members ' Lobby and elsewhere , like American football players in a scrummage , to plan the retrieval process . |
11 | The menus change daily in the directors ' dining rooms , delibars and staff canteens that he operates because the clientele does not . |
12 | It should be remembered by the advisers that , following completion , the management and the investors will work together as a team and it is not in the investors ' interests to antagonise or demoralise their management team at the outset . |
13 | In both cases their parents took decisions for them which , in my view , were not in the boys ' best interests . |
14 | He adds that it is not in the traders ' interests for the elephants to die out . |
15 | The three best in the judges ' opinion will receive two free tickets each to see the show . |
16 | Charles 's schoolfriend said that he did n't know before compounding his folly by spelling the surname incorrectly in the visitors ' book . |
17 | As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her . |
18 | The story exhibits just the type of learning and experimentation that one would expect from incrementalism , except that , in the Honda case , the experiments were being conducted for real , not just in the executives ' minds prior to decision , and the process did not seem all that logical . |
19 | Tonight , over in the nurses ' home on Huntley Street , a bunch of junior doctors would be putting on the usual end-of-year revue . |
20 | Parents could be involved sooner in the childrens ' educations . |
21 | Yarrow , cranesbill , goldenrod , globe thistle , rose campion and Michaelmas daisies are usually in the birds ' top ten of herbaceous plants . |
22 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Two days after the two men returned from Germany , the SS officer pulled her aside in the officers ' mess . |
25 | It went off in the gents ' toilet on the ground floor . |
26 | St Helens have signed Tea Ropati , the New Zealand centre , who was invalided home with a knee injury early in the Kiwis ' English tour . |
27 | St Helens have signed Tea Ropati , the New Zealand centre , who was invalided home with a knee injury early in the Kiwis ' English tour , writes Edward Kennedy . |
28 | She argues that it often is still in the employers ' interest to recruit someone on a relative 's recommendation , since this gives employers more control over their workforce . |
29 | He finished up in the chimpanzees ' cage , hanging from the bars , while trying to retrieve his beret , stolen by one of the animals . |
30 | But an enormous backlog of untaxed cases of wine is building up in the producers ' warehouses . |