Example sentences of "in [noun pl] ' [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE LEYS , who have been a considerable force in schools ' rugby in recent years , prospered on the Austrian tour to earn five wins and a couple of defeats from seven games . |
| 2 | Give any movement in directors ' interests in capital of any member of the group between the balance sheet date and a date not more than one month prior to the date of the notice of the AGM . |
| 3 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 4 | Investment in training will therefore be discouraged , and managers are similarly discouraged from causing the company to engage in research and development and other projects the return from which will only be reflected in managers ' rewards in the long term . |
| 5 | On Monday 18th June sixty people met in Painters ' Hall in the City to take part in a ‘ tutored wine tasting ’ of sparkling wines , under the most knowledgeable guidance of Pamela Vandyke Price , author and wine journalist of fabulous expertise , whose distinctions include having been the first woman admitted on equal terms into the male-dominated world of wine . |
| 6 | Gains made this week by abortion-rights groups in the Florida legislature , in governors ' races in New Jersey and Virginia , and in the House of Representatives have weighted the balance markedly toward the pro-abortion forces . |
| 7 | The result is a marked advance within ILEA schools in teachers ' skills in relation to assessment as well as movement towards whole school policies on assessment . |
| 8 | Among particularly serious instances of pollution picked out in the report were the following : , Heavy use of pesticides polluting rivers across the crop growing areas of the Russian republic ; , Untreated industrial effluent from the Volga slowly killing off the marine life of the Caspian Sea ; , High levels of dioxin in mothers ' milk in Moscow ; , The continuing consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident , rendering much of the countryside of the Ukraine and Belorussia uncultivatable ; , Waste from aluminium factories in Uzbekistan , poisoning the land for miles around . |
| 9 | These show that there has been a gradual improvement in girls ' performance in mathematics relative to that of boys . |
| 10 | When they also understand that housing costs play a proportionately lower part in pensioners ' expenditure in England than in the rest of Europe , they may be grateful for the way in which we have promoted home ownership . |
| 11 | The neglect of the needs of those disabled after retirement age is excused by reference to the growth in pensioners ' incomes in recent years which , of course , overlooks the acute poverty among older people with disabilities and the fact that the growth in incomes has been concentrated among better-off pensioners . |
| 12 | They were by Carl Prior ( second in colts ' ’ A ’ 800m in 2:38.7 ) , David Lemon ( second in boys ' ’ A ’ 800m in 2:17.5 ) and Liam Walsh ( 1st in colts ' 100m in 14.6 ) . |