Example sentences of "[art] parents ['s] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If the parents ' reactions are inconsistent or uncertain the child will start to make more and more demands until the predictable success occurs .
2 A child 's development always takes place within a context of contemporaneous events , the most important of which result from the parents ' activities .
3 The N.C.M.A. thinks that a minimum of £17 a week per child for full-time care is reasonable , but you could charge more depending on the parents ' earnings and the number of meals provided etc .
4 All over Orkney during the time the children were away from their homes , prayers were said for them in churches of all denominations and at prayer meetings , and despite the torment they went through , none of the parents ' faiths wavered .
5 But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools , provided that was not against the parents ' principles .
6 Other forms of mental handicap may be attributed to genetic factors , where the fusion of the parents ' genes creates an irregularity in the chromosomal mix .
7 The headteacher who is in the playground in the morning to greet children and parents and also there in the afternoon to see the children safely away is in a strong position to encourage casual chatter about learning , teaching and the parents ' perceptions of the school .
8 This improvement related to the Bristol team 's efforts to make parents more aware of four main factors for cot death , which are identified from the parents ' accounts of the death of their baby .
9 The gist of the parents ' complaints is that children were allowed too much freedom and that there was too little formal instruction in the three Rs .
10 Similarly , if parents are able to have their views upheld ( as might occur on an appeal against a decision not to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil ) , ‘ it may not be clear whether it is primarily the child 's right or the parents ' rights over upbringing which is being upheld ’ .
11 In the wake of the election in Haringey , an allegedly independent campaign , the Parents ' Rights Group , was set up and led largely by working-class women .
12 The main resistance to the Parents ' Rights Group campaign did not come from the council , where the Labour group effectively factionalized themselves — and their Public Relations Department — into silence .
13 None of these articles referred to the activities of the Parents ' Rights Group , to the joblessness and homelessness that had caused lesbians and gays to seek support from councils in the first place , to the findings of the Gay Teenage Group survey about the intimidation and isolation of lesbian and gay teenagers in state schools , to the menace of fundamentalism — or to any other feature of our oppression .
14 These far-reaching discussions recognise both the child 's right to autonomous parents and family privacy , but also the parents ' rights .
15 But in essence what the government say is that erm the parents ' rights as far as the , what is now called the statement — each authority must have a statement about children with special needs .
16 Access to Relevant Material by the Parents ' Solicitors : Solicitors representing parents may experience difficulties in getting background history of the child in care when preparing their cases , whereas solicitors representing Social Services Departments are likely to be drawn from the local authority Legal Departments , and to be fully informed .
17 The Court of Appeal dismissed a mother 's appeal from an order of Judge Wroath in the Portsmouth County Court on 11 May 1989 that a girl should be adopted and that the parents ' consents to the adoption be dispensed with on the ground that they were unreasonably withheld .
18 Pudding can be given once the child has complied with the parents ' wishes and eaten the small portion of main course first .
19 Miss Outram was still at school , and the parents ' wishes had been ignored in London and Derby .
20 The state forces children to be educated for a given period , if necessary against the parents ' wishes or indifference .
21 Finally there is a section on the effects of some interventions on some behaviours as revealed by the parents ' records .
22 In the parents ' houses the Dynmouth Hards crept upstairs and into bedrooms in which other people slept , considerate because in their homes they were required to be .
23 The parents ' interests , they said , had to be considered as well as the children 's .
24 The three senior judges agreed that a balance had to be struck between the interests of the children and their parents — and Lord Hope said the parents ' interests were also of very great importance .
25 Social workers , she says , have a primary responsibility to ensure that the case conference has information relating to the family background , and the parents ' views on the issues .
26 The role of the professional is to listen and understand the parents ' views , aims , and expectations and to provide the parents with a range of suitable options and the necessary information from which to select .
27 The nursery school used a modified version of the SOED questionnaire for Staff ( Nursery Form ) which made comparison with the parents ' views easier .
28 The parents ' lawyers made the same points .
29 The parents ' lawyers , acting through an Edinburgh firm , tried late that night to get an interim interdict to stop publication .
30 One drop of Methylene Blue to each pint of jar water helps to prevent fungus attacking the eggs or fry , and strong aeration keeps them clean and healthy , simulating the fanning of the parents ' fins .
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