Example sentences of "children were [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto . |
| 2 | He was patted down and given a cup of tea and a sausage roll to bolster him up while the children were gathered and the room darkened in anticipation . |
| 3 | Two hundred and fifty children were moved to St Felix 's Girls School in Southwold , where the staff gave up their holiday to help look after their guests . |
| 4 | In August 1988 , when W. was 12 , it was appreciated that this fostering arrangement could not continue and she and the other children were moved to new foster parents . |
| 5 | Impartible and partible inheritance customs co-existed side by side , and marked variations were to be found in the degree to which elder and younger children were favoured or disadvantaged . |
| 6 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 7 | Normally after offering their silent prayers all three children were dismissed to play in the garden and were not recalled until the offertory food was removed from the altar at the end of the ceremony and eaten along with other dishes at a festive family supper . |
| 8 | All four fathers of case children and nine of the 10 fathers of control children were employed by the industry before their child was conceived ( relative risk 2.8 , p=0.20 ) . |
| 9 | Children were employed in field work for this was necessary to supplement the family income and Halling was no exception as the school log books show of children absenting from school in the 19th century to go pea picking and gleaning . |
| 10 | Many women and children were employed . |
| 11 | In 1985 fewer than one in ten of the country 's children were immunised . |
| 12 | Altogether 32 children were studied . |
| 13 | The number of people who as children were separated from their mother , or whose mother died , is likely to be relatively small . |
| 14 | Children were pumped full of beer and wine at social ‘ dos ’ ; doctors freely prescribed alcoholic liquors , and society regarded reaching the condition of drunkenness as a great achievement . |
| 15 | My parents lived in constant awareness of the big house and its occupants , and we children were imbued with the problem of what the squire and his household would think of any action or behaviour . |
| 16 | In that case we should be back in something like the unsatisfactory position we were in before the introduction of comprehensive schools , when the least successful children were relegated to schools that were openly admitted to be inferior ; and it is likely that the ‘ good ’ schools would , many of them , choose to free themselves from their Local Authorities . |
| 17 | When children were engaged in sustained collaborative activity in pairs or groups , this had in most cases been initiated by themselves , albeit with the teacher 's blessing . |
| 18 | For of all those peppered by the shotgun blast of criticism that came out of the Cleveland inquiry , where in little more than three months 121 children were diagnosed as actual or possible victims of child sexual abuse , only Dr Higgs still does not know her future and faces effective dismissal . |
| 19 | Based on prior antroduodenal manometry , 24 children were diagnosed as having a neuropathic and six a myopathic form of intestinal pseudo-obstruction . |
| 20 | In 1912–13 about 100,000 children were fed in London , 258,000 in the rest of England and Wales . |
| 21 | The rest of the children were seated on the ground so that all five of them were now very exposed . |
| 22 | Six families were selected , of whom four attended the afternoon programme ; a total of six adults — two of whom were single parents — and six children were involved . |
| 23 | ‘ The killings are made all the more reprehensible by the fact that innocent children were involved , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Over 150 men , women and children were killed by Mali 's security forces in March , after a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations and riots . |
| 25 | Last year three children were killed in farm accidents . |
| 26 | Over 60 children were killed and over 7,000 injured while travelling UNRESTRAINED in the rear of cars last year and on 1 September the Motor Vehicles ( Wearing of Seat Belts by Children in Rear Seats ) Regulations 1989 became law . |
| 27 | Between 1939 and 1945 , 80,000 men , women and children were killed by enemy action on the Home Front . |
| 28 | More than twenty children were killed bringing in that first wartime crop of 1914 . |
| 29 | A bus in which two children were killed by snipers reached Croatia yesterday with 40 other youngsters from the Bosnian capital Sarajevo . |
| 30 | Portago , Nelson , five adults and six children were killed , and that was enough for officials to call a halt to the race . |