Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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31 | ONE of the happiest men in Basildon was Joe Mills , an Essex University student from Harlow , who claimed the 800 metres title by just four-hundredths of a second in the Championships ' best race . |
32 | Butcher is more interested in the dancers ' pure energy , in the basic building blocks of line , space and time . |
33 | The rating agency says that the action follows Philips ' agreement to sell to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co its 35% stake in the companies ' joint venture . |
34 | Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies ' international networks . |
35 | All the doors were closed in the owners ' sleeping cars ( there were almost no open sections in those ) , the inhabitants there having the habit of privacy . |
36 | Nevertheless , when asked about the way the societies sold insurance , 49 per cent of customers said they trusted their society to sell them only those products and services which were in the customers ' best interests . |
37 | laker had his first 10-wicket haul in the visitors ' first innings , and Lock took 7 for 49 in the second . |
38 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
39 | CONFIDENCE in the New Zealand camp , following their yacht 's performances in the challengers ' semi-final races of the American Cup trials off San Deigo , is not at its highest . |
40 | Marie , who is in the Paras ' territorial battalion , is also the first woman to join the regiment 's elite Black Lanyards free fall parachute display team . |
41 | All answers had to be remembered in the mothers ' own words . |
42 | 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 . |
43 | The incumbent President , Arístides Maria Pereira , was defeated in the islands ' first free presidential elections on Feb. 17 . |
44 | Hunter dislocated his shoulder in the Lions ' tour-opening win against North Auckland . |
45 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
46 | While the Polish church has always been a vital element in the Poles ' national identity , neither the Protestant nor the Catholic churches in Germany — much less East Germany — have ever had this function . |
47 | There were no significant changes in the employees ' substantive terms and conditions , except in relation to union recognition . |
48 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
49 | It is the outcome of a process which , for Harkabi , has its origins in the Israelis ' overwhelming , intoxicating victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . |
50 | Beanpole striker Andy Smith has emerged as one of the key figures in the Diamonds ' recent revival . |
51 | For example , at what stage in the pupils ' artistic development should the artist be introduced and in what way do artists help ? |
52 | The scullions ahead of him got down off their stools and waddled away , disappearing in the kitchens ' foggy wastes . |
53 | There were no significant changes in the patients ' mean weight and serum creatinine and sodium concentrations throughout the trial . |
54 | Shortages of professional staff are very severe in some places and over-reliance on foreign staff is not always in the patients ' best interests in an area where personal communication is so important . |
55 | The practice of stopping NSAIDs before investigation or starting H 2 antagonists for a clinical diagnosis of peptic ulceration seems to be in the patients ' best interests if a delay in endoscopy is unavoidable , but may lead to failure to find a definitive cause for the anaemia . |
56 | Furthermore , is it not rash to say that it is to be carried out only in the patients ' best interests ? |
57 | Without cutting back the vines , too many of these pellets would be wasted , wedged in the vines ' dead or dying foliage . |
58 | ARSENAL keeper David Seaman and midfielder David Hillier are fit to face Manchester United today after being substituted in the Gunners ' 3–0 crash at Leeds . |
59 | A version of it had been announced by Faber and Faber , as " Mr Eliot 's Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to Him by the Man in White Spats " , in the spring of 1936 ; the blurb , written either by Frank Morley or by Eliot himself , explained that " several of the poems , illustrated by the author , have been in private circulation in the Publishers ' various families for a considerable time … " |
60 | Made for television and to be shown at Easter , it is about Lawrence of Arabia , or rather Lawrence after Arabia , back from the desert and involved in the Allies ' post-war negotiations over the map of the Middle East . |