Example sentences of "in [art] good [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The choice of treatment may be skewed towards that which can be paid for , rather than that which may be in the best interests of or preferred by the patient .
2 ‘ We strongly believe that a North-east merger of Vaux 's and Brent Walker 's northern brewing and pub operations would be in the best interests of all , ’ said Vaux chairman Paul Nicholson .
3 ‘ You often find the civil court has dealt with the abuse and the perpetrator in the context of what is in the best interests of the child . ’
4 And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium .
5 One local farmer commented that for McCartney to put an end to the hunt might not necessarily be in the best interests of the deer .
6 On the contrary ; he took the view that a continuation of the National Government was in the best interests of the country .
7 There is a widely held view among many business experts that selling off a business to a management buy-out team is the easy way out and is not in the best interests of a company 's shareholders .
8 Even in his mid-seventies , Finniston is showing no sign of flagging in his boundless energy or in the missionary zeal with which he preaches the gospel that a healthy industrial economy is in the best interests of society as a whole .
9 It was , he said , ‘ not in the best interests of cricket ’ .
10 Mrs Thatcher stonewalled her way through Question Time , repeatedly arguing that the Rover deal had been in the best interests of the taxpayer .
11 This ritual was practised until the last decade or so but has apparently now ceased , which is perhaps in the best interests of the dolphins .
12 This situation went against the grain , as the top brass always needed to be on top of every situation and on top of every executive if they were to do their jobs to their own satisfaction ; not necessarily in the best interests of the Corporation , that is to say , but in their own best interests .
13 But a person going about it seriously has to discount his own personal opinion , which may be that all coloured people should — um — be expelled from the country , and decide what is in the best interests of the country as a whole , given that there is a large — er — ethnic problem .
14 The whole contra operation was ‘ for God and Country , ’ , Owen said North told him in the beginning ; at its end , it had all still been done ‘ in the best interests of the United States of America ’ .
15 Bates said yesterday : ‘ I want a solution that is in the best interests of all parties .
16 In common with other taxpayers , and in the best interests of all parties , I believe the time is long overdue for impartiality to be compelled upon this publicly funded corporation .
17 It also has to be demonstrated that it is in the best interests of the child .
18 Only a parent has such a right , and even then the parent may only act in the best interests of the patient .
19 This is because the law accepts that it may not always be in the best interests of a patient to receive further invasive , or aggressive , treatment .
20 But , on appeal the same day , Lord Justice Templeman , speaking for the court , held that ‘ the Judge erred because he was influenced by the views of the parents , instead of deciding what was in the best interests of the child ’ .
21 There may be occasions , however , when in order to act in the best interests of the Company , the Directors will need the flexibility to finance business opportunities as they arise by the issue of ordinary shares without a pre-VXKVK offer to existing shareholders .
22 The Remuneration Committee comprising all the Non-Executive Directors ( ‘ the Committee ’ ) has considered the question and concluded that it would now be in the best interests of the Company and its employees to bring forward proposals for such a scheme and an appropriate resolution is set out as Resolution 11 .
23 The disadvantage is that the individual councillor , if he is a member of such a group , may be required to sub-ordinate what he considers to be in the best interests of his electors to what his group so consider .
24 A very strong impression , even now , is of a lack of diversity in the planning and delivery of activities in ways that may not be in the best interests of the children .
25 The concerns that have been expressed outside the park committees need to be fully voiced within them if the committees are to decide in the best interests of the parks and their purposes , and if they are to be seen to do so .
26 But the Government likes to submit to free market forces and developers attempt to respond , rather than taking into account where new homes should be built in the best interests of the public .
27 Where a dominant influence exists over a public company , the dominant undertaking will be liable for any damage suffered by the public company and , more radically , for any debts incurred by the public company as a result of its acting at the direction of the dominant undertaking , although this will seemingly not be the case if the dominant undertaking 's influence is in fact exercised in the best interests of the public company .
28 How could they say , as they all did , frequently and sanctimoniously , that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children ?
29 Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children .
30 At one point he indicated that it was in the best interests of the investigation .
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