Example sentences of "that their children " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their main concerns is that their children or grandchildren are to be placed for adoption with no continuing contact with family members , including brothers and sisters . |
| 2 | ‘ Funnily enough , we could detect how the readership was developing from book signings : initially it was the children who came ; then mothers , mumbling that their children were at school , and then the fathers saying , ‘ I want to know what my children are reading ’ ; and finally , the parents on their own , no longer needing childish excuses . ’ |
| 3 | Annual holiday camps are held for boys and girls from poorer families who otherwise would not get away , with costs paid by the RUC ; these are so popular that parents ring requesting that their children be allowed to go again . |
| 4 | Both Charles and Diana were determined that their children were going to have normal , happy childhoods . |
| 5 | In the face of doubts about the truths of religion , could bereaved parents still take courage and assume that their children 's death meant only a brief separation , the prelude to reunion in happier surroundings ? |
| 6 | They are told that their children will have to endure years of wandering in the wilderness , suffering because of the faithlessness of their parents , until , God tells them , ‘ … the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness ’ . |
| 7 | But of course parents do get anxious , about little problems and large : that their children will eat too many sweets and watch too many unsuitable videos at another child 's house : that their child will be egged on to get up to pranks , truant from school or worse . |
| 8 | They know that their children are stronger than them in many ways and it is hard for them to come to terms with that and still keep their dignity and self-respect . |
| 9 | In June 1987 , local newspapers in Cleveland published accounts by parents who complained that their children had been removed from their care by the local authority on the basis of disputed diagnoses of sexual abuse by two local paediatricians . |
| 10 | The parents argued that their action was not racially motivated , but rather reflected their concern that their children should be educated in a school with a prevailing Christian ethos , which they claimed would not be the case at the school designated by the LEA . |
| 11 | For this reason , amongst others , Reid 's recent suggestion that perhaps parents in Britain should , like those in France , lose some child benefit if it is proved that their children are truanting — ‘ Fines imposed on parents should be collected directly from child benefit ’ — deserves rejection . |
| 12 | The findings of a major study in Sheffield between 1976 and 1978 lent ‘ no support to the view that formal action encourages parents to ensure that their children attend more regularly in the future ’ . |
| 13 | Again , this is not radically different from the attitudes of many parents towards children of higher intelligence , who believe that their children should experience pre-school education , perhaps attending a play school or nursery from the age of three onwards , and then encouraging them to pursue further education at school leaving age . |
| 14 | Parents strive to ensure that their children are placed in the best possible schools , follow with avid interest their educational attainments , often placing the children under great pressure if they are relatively unsuccessful . |
| 15 | The overriding priority for parents is that their children should enjoy coming to school . |
| 16 | Professional journals such as The Times Educational Supplement , Child Education and Junior Education will carry photographs and features on innovative work taking place at the school , these can be reproduced for parents to reinforce the message that their children 's school is a leader . |
| 17 | There have even been parents disappointed that their children in KS1 tests have achieved level 3 on the mistaken assumption that level 1 equated with 1st class . |
| 18 | When parents are faithful to each other , it 's more likely that their children will grow up to be true to each other , too . |
| 19 | The third proposal is that parents should have absolute rights to choose the school that their children should attend . |
| 20 | But beyond this most people assume that there will be some actual teaching of such things , and particularly that their children will receive sex education and , by statute , religious instruction . |
| 21 | It is far better and essentially less embarrassing for such education to be given at school than within the family , even if it could be certain that parents would give it or that their children would listen . |
| 22 | Jessy and her husband feel it is a priority that their children go through school , but are already worried that they will not be able to afford to send the eldest to secondary school . |
| 23 | Another will be that teachers cheat in order that their children perform well in the test . |
| 24 | Parents who grew up in the sixties , when the cult of the teenager first took hold , may still look and feel young and be unready to acknowledge that their children are growing up . |
| 25 | Many parents who have given their children a clear understanding of right and wrong , and those who have laid the foundation of Christian faith , may feel at this stage that their children are rejecting their values once and for all . |
| 26 | Parents are largely responsible for providing the right environment so that their children grow up happy , balanced and free from hang-ups . |
| 27 | Other parents long for grandchildren but find that their children delay marriage , or else their career-minded daughters or daughters-in-law have no intention of starting a family for a good few years . |
| 28 | Further , they will know that their children can be spared any of the residual guilt feelings which result from the teachings of long established religions , and from which they might themselves suffer . |
| 29 | Adults tend to dismiss as worthless much that their children read , while having a nostalgic affection for similar material read in their own childhood . |
| 30 | It is naturally important to them that their children and grandchildren should know what life was like when they were young , and although younger people may not realise it at the time , a knowledge of their own family history and the characters that made it can be valuable to them , too , if they are to understand themselves and their own lives . |