Example sentences of "in [noun pl] ' [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.38 There is no authority on the appropriate principles to be adopted in apportioning the amount recovered , but the practice in widows ' claims is to award the greater part of the total sum awarded to the widow on the assumption that she will maintain the children as long as they are dependent and to award comparatively small sums to the children themselves . |
| 2 | Direct selling in customers ' homes is to some extent accepted practice for a number of consumer product groups such as perfumes , cosmetics and toiletries but remains an area of unexplored potential for a number of others . |
| 3 | The gain in consumers ' surplus minus the loss in producers ' surplus is equal to RFGS . |
| 4 | GPTV director David Hahn said : ‘ The average waiting time in GPs ' surgeries is 30 minutes . |
| 5 | Understandably , the great issue in members ' minds is what will the changes due in 1997 mean to them as individuals and to the Branch as an organisation . |
| 6 | At least one study has suggested that high PCB levels in mothers ' milk is linked with a higher-than-normal incidence of haemolytic disease , a blood disorder . |
| 7 | It would be premature to describe the youth groups and subcultures associated with many popular music styles in these terms ; but the importance they have assumed in adolescents ' development is suggestive — just as the older class-based behavioural models and moral norms of proletarian communities , though weakened and modified , have not been entirely smashed . |
| 8 | However , studies have shown ( Hood , 1962 , 1972 ; Parker et al. , 1999 ) that the chief formative influence on sentencing practice in magistrates ' courts is not the law or the advice received from other professionals in court , nor even the way similar cases have been decided by that particular court in the past . |