Example sentences of "[is] [adv] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In J v C [ 1970 ] AC 668 Lord Macdermott described it as : … a process whereby , when all the relevant facts , relationships , claims and wishes of parents , risks , choices and other circumstances are taken into account and weighed , the course to be followed will be that which is most in the interests of the child 's welfare as that term has now to be understood .
2 Holding and transferring bibliographic information is presumably in the interests of the data subject ( the author ) and is vital for the efficient running of the book industry . ’
3 Judicial independence means that judges are not dependent on governments in ways which might influence them in coming to decisions in individual cases , though their promotion , like their appointment , is effectively in the hands of the Lord Chancellor with , nowadays , a measure of Prime Ministerial intervention .
4 The most remarkable fact about the appointment of judges is that it is wholly in the hands of politicians .
5 As we have seen , the residential care of elderly people is predominantly in the hands of private companies .
6 Well , it 's only in the interests of the council .
7 I realise that it is constantly in the interests of the Opposition to belittle the Government 's successes , but that is certainly one .
8 It is only in the states of Western Europe , in the countries of the British Commonwealth , in the United States of America , and in a few Latin-American states that government is carried on with due regard to the limitations imposed by a Constitution ; it is only in these states that truly ‘ constitutional government ’ can be said to exist …
9 Further , it is only in the Fellowships that they will get sufficient identification with other sufferers to be able to see that there is hope for recovery when they do finally admit defeat .
10 It is only in the laws of Wihtraed c .
11 The education of very small children is entirely in the hands of the mother and nurse .
12 House Music Competitions The Senior House Music Competition in the Second Term is entirely in the hands of the pupils .
13 But it is perhaps in the attempts of Francis Bacon in the seventeenth century that the origins of a concern with social features of knowledge as introducing distortions are to be found .
14 Well it 's already in the minutes .
15 As for serving sausages — that task is normally in the hands of Stella and Bill Martin , whose absence compels me to step into the breach . ’
16 And the brand new video that 's just in the shops , I think today is the first day in the shops , called Portrait Of A City , Nottingham nineteen ninety three .
17 Though conservation of our most endangered species of butterflies ( such as large blue , heath fritillary and swallowtail ) is largely in the hands of experts , keen amateurs can still make a valuable contribution to conserving commoner species .
18 Again , the remedy is largely in the hands of the head .
19 They say Greycoats is always in the newspapers for winning this and that .
20 Elitist theories argue that power is always in the hands of a minority .
21 ‘ She is still in the ladies ’ department . ’
22 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 .
23 Some of the original coloured glass is still in the windows .
24 40% of the crop is still in the fields and the longer it stays there the more difficult it is to harvest .
25 Niazy 's letter clearing Mrs Paleschi is still in the hands of her Egyptian lawyer , Abdul Raoul Mardi .
26 I asked for this to be arranged twelve months ago , but it is still in the hands of the solicitor , who does not answer letters .
27 The only drink they have left is wine , diluted with whatever is still in the cisterns .
28 So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes .
29 Spencer Stuart is the only firm which has , so far , achieved the full transition to a structure where control of the business and the appointment of its management is genuinely in the hands of its consultants .
30 Well , she must do if she 's always in the Muckrakers . ’
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