Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] ' [det] " in BNC.

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1 This may include lecture preparation , presentation , research for a publication or article in the members ' own name or research for a new piece of work to be undertaken .
2 The solution lies firmly in the farmers ' own hands
3 All answers had to be remembered in the mothers ' own words .
4 The teaching of learned gesture could be approached in a systematic , comparative way , at least with monolingual groups , where differences between learned gesture in the students ' own culture and in the target culture are often a subject of considerable interest .
5 The percentages of variants in Sue 's speech provide a reasonably reliable index of the socioeconomic status and educational background of her interlocutors , just as the percentages of those forms in the clients ' own speech are able to do .
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