Example sentences of "[subord] children [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Where children attend different types of schools , it is to be expected that their school attainments will differ .
2 But even where children attend the same type of school , the available evidence shows that school attainments vary by socio-economic group from a very early age .
3 The guides will naturally point out such things as where children hang their coats and where children are collected at the end of the day .
4 At the other end of the scale there are those schools , and they are numerous , where children enjoy the benefit of an adequate weatherproof classroom , something to sit and something to write on .
5 Where children do come into care , close contact is maintained with the parents and they have to pay towards the cost of their children 's upkeep according to their means .
6 Where children do not carry these assumptions inside them , it is because they have been brought up in an enclave that is struggling against the weight of secular pressure .
7 There have been cases , fortunately rare , where children have been indecently assaulted at school by parent helpers .
8 Where children have failed consistently , remove their feeling of failure by giving a series of short regular lessons , designed to produce success — for instance , three simple words daily if the children are aged 6–8 , four for the 9–10 range , and six for the 11–13 children .
9 Named after the fountain that originally stood in the hospital garden , where children threw coins to wish for good health , the Wishing Well Appeal became one of the most successful fund-raising campaigns ever conducted .
10 Yes , although children pick them up much more often than adults do .
11 Although children become familiar with the terms used in the story and call out when they are listening to it , the ideas involved may not necessarily have been understood .
12 Although children begin with a very small vocabulary compared to the adult , they still manage to talk about a large number of things .
13 3 Miscue analysis shows that although children attach great importance to the grapho-phonemic level , many of them do not actually use phonic tactics well .
14 Employees also receive a payment of £150 for each dependent child under 18 ( although children aged 16–18 must be in full-time education for employees to qualify for this payment ) .
15 Currently the most widely known ( and also most widely criticized ) theory on the subject is that of Noam Chomsky who has pointed out that , although children have to learn the meanings of individual words from their elders ( which would make language a phenomenon of culture ) , they seem to know how to string words together so as to distinguish sense from nonsense long before they have acquired any substantial vocabulary .
16 The Julenisse have very bad tempers , so children leave them bowls of porridge at Christmas time .
17 It is quite appropriate that moral philosophers should group together children and madmen as beings not fully responsible for their actions , for as madmen are thought to lack freedom of choice , so children do not yet possess the power of reason in a developed form .
18 As Tizard points out , whereas we argue about whether any extra familial care is desirable for very young children , and whether it can be financed on a low cost basis , once children reach the age of 5 , full-time education outside the family is seen not only as desirable but as compulsory , and there is enormous annual expenditure by local authorities to make schooling available free of charge to all .
19 Part of the problem is that once children go to ‘ big ’ school , parents expect them to do ‘ proper ’ school work , says Neville Bennett , Professor of Primary Education at Exeter University .
20 Furthermore , once children have acquired the conventional word to express a particular meaning , they tend to use that , and not to coin a new form to use instead .
21 In addition , as we have seen from remarks made by the music and drama specialists , once children have acquired this type of understanding they tend to be very honest about their work , as shown in the following comments from the Head of Art at Redbrook Secondary :
22 Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object .
23 While this evidence does not necessarily imply that children will always cope with empirical and intentional explanations in the classroom , it does imply that failure to do so is likely to be due to factors other than children lacking an understanding of causality , of intentionality , or of the causal connectives .
24 Children who received punishment as they reached for the attractive toy showed greater resistance to temptation than children punished just after they had picked it up or at a point several seconds later .
25 Babies born several weeks prematurely grow up to have a lower IQ on average by the ages of seven to 10 than children born at full term , according to research reported yesterday .
26 Children will soon discover if there are ‘ fewer ’ bikes , chairs , etc. than children wanting to use them .
27 Drillien ( 1964 ) found that children at 2 years of age who were potted early were neither wetter nor dryer , cleaner nor dirtier than children trained later .
28 For example , children going to former white schools in Harare , now known as ‘ Group A ’ schools , are likely to get a far better education and have much better facilities than children going to most of the schools , known as ‘ Group B ’ schools , in the ‘ high density suburbs ’ ( formerly segregated black townships ) .
29 And if children hear the rows , but not the making up afterwards , their view of your relationship becomes unbalanced .
30 If children ask for words during writing , follow the pattern below based on the strategy .
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