Example sentences of "in their [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And going for the big one … the Dark Blues in their toughest training yet . |
| 2 | ‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour . |
| 3 | Whitsuntide was the traditional time for wearing new clothes and the little girls were all smart in their prettiest dresses , mostly white , with ribbons and flowers in their hair . |
| 4 | America was fascinated by the Russians ' presence in their prettiest city , and duly ignored the real significance of what was going on . |
| 5 | Give answers in their lowest terms . |
| 6 | Give your answers in their lowest terms . |
| 7 | Give your answers in their lowest terms as you learnt to do on page 32 . |
| 8 | What fraction of the moons are smaller than our moon ? unc Give the answers to the following in their lowest terms : |
| 9 | In an ASCII format , documents are displayed in their lowest form on screen and ca n't easily be read . |
| 10 | Work out the following giving your answers in their lowest form . |
| 11 | In the crystalline phase the chain bonds are in their lowest energy state . |
| 12 | contain a divine element , even in their lowest appliances … |
| 13 | Abraham , the alien , can not possibly bury Sarah in their finest grave . |
| 14 | Look for subtle colours , such as those found in The National Trust 's paint collection , created to match colours originally used in their finest properties . |
| 15 | Weaknesses in industry and in its political , legal and social surroundings are observed by the financial system in their finest detail . |
| 16 | The Council 's newly formed Planning Department , staffed by relative newcomers to public administration , was extremely zealous in the application of the regulations in their strictest sense as a means of establishing both the importance of the planning function and the place of the department within the hierarchy of the Kirkwall administration . |
| 17 | Consensus arises from the absence of any fundamental challenge for change in society ; individuals judge what is in their best interests within a basic framework of laws . |
| 18 | If players have the freedom to act in their best interests as a response to the signals of the market place , it is simply not possible to determine the outcome of the game by reference to certain ideals of social justice . |
| 19 | And many older people may be quite right in refusing the prospect of change — it may be in their best interests . |
| 20 | Thus the decision not to appoint Risk could be seen as an attempt by the Board to carry out its fiduciary duty to the shareholders ( ie to act in their best interests ) . |
| 21 | By and large it is , therefore , in their best interests , with regard to career prospects , to accept these postings . |
| 22 | When however consideration is given to which patients should be transferred back to locally based hospitals from the geographically remote major illness hospitals , there are comparatively few for whom such a transfer is in their best interests , clinically or socially . |
| 23 | What was significant about the Banstead strategy in this respect was that offering continued inpatient care to ‘ decantees ’ was presented by psychiatrists as a protection of patients ' rights , particularly the right to stay in hospital where , they argued , ‘ many resist any suggestion that they should leave the hospital and also become more ill when such suggestions are made … to press such a matter against the patients ’ will would certainly not be in their best interests ' . |
| 24 | In principle , the law is clear — children go where it is in their best interests to go . |
| 25 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 26 | Tacit collusion , on the other hand , would involve no explicit agreement but simply the unspoken acceptance by the two firms that it was in their best interests each to produce half the monopoly output on the understanding that failure to do so would provoke a price war . |
| 27 | However , children over whom the local authority exercises parental rights may be allowed to return home on trial if this seems to be in their best interests . |
| 28 | Subdued housing market turnover since the end of 1988 has also made it difficult for borrowers to clear arrears by trading down , and some may have thought it in their best interests to default once their mortgages exceeded the value of their homes — although the borrower in this situation still remains legally liable for any outstanding debt after the property has been sold . |
| 29 | Restaurateurs obviously know that it 's not in their best interests to poison people : however , seemingly inaccessible places can harbour dirt and discarded food scraps , which in turn encourage rodents , cockroaches and other pests . |
| 30 | In theory , shareholders own the firm but appoint managers to run the firm in their best interests . |