Example sentences of "[noun sg] of child [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Lynne Michelle , of Edinburgh , has highlighted in her studies on the perception of children of the promotion of cigarettes the grave danger , almost the entrapment of a younger generation by irresponsible elements in the industry and , sadly , the example set by other adults , including parents . |
| 2 | Whilst improvements in the material well-being of children during the period under consideration is measurable in the decrease in child mortality rates , and advances in education provision and medical care ( in other words the material evidence of the control and monitoring of children by the state ) , the historical changes which occur in the emotional/psychological category , ‘ the child ’ , are largely unknowable . |
| 3 | Evangelicals and others in the mid-nineteenth century still placed the central responsibility for the upbringing of children upon the family . |
| 4 | The panel has however endeavoured to ref to fulfil its remit by analyzing the whole confirmation service in the book of common order and we come to the conclusion that really the admission of children to the sacrament of the lord 's supper would necessitate only minor adjustments to the service as we now know it . |
| 5 | Yet it is clear in references to natural justice that our conception of law is bound up with ideas of notice , fair hearing , representation and open judgment , aspects of which have been denied in the admission of children to the care of the state , and particularly in parental rights resolutions by local authorities . |
| 6 | And since the vast majority of children in the UK are lucky enough to eat a balanced diet , there 's no worry about your own child falling short on intelligence . |
| 7 | In the context of incest this is even less defensible — first , because eugenic reasons no longer provide the main grounds for criminalization ; and second because the primary rationale of punishing the sexual exploitation of children within the family applies no less to other serious sexual behaviour , such as oral and anal sex . |
| 8 | The investigators undertake the testing of children between the ages of 7 and 15 in schools in certain local education authorities where there are significant numbers of children from the Asian and West Indian ethnic groups . |
| 9 | Whilst improvements in the material well-being of children during the period under consideration is measurable in the decrease in child mortality rates , and advances in education provision and medical care ( in other words the material evidence of the control and monitoring of children by the state ) , the historical changes which occur in the emotional/psychological category , ‘ the child ’ , are largely unknowable . |
| 10 | The Cleveland Inquiry ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) noted that : ‘ It has been impossible from the evidence provided to the Inquiry to arrive at any consensus or to obtain any reliable figures of the general prevalence of sexual abuse of children in the country or in Clevelend ’ ( p.4 ) and later comments that : ‘ We are strongly of the opinion that great caution should be exercised at the present time in accepting percentages as to the prevalence and incidence of sexual abuse . |
| 11 | ( 8 ) The percentage of children under the age of 16 normally resident in private households who had a reported age at last birthday of 0 on Census day in 1981 was 5.75 . |
| 12 | If you are artistic , it may be fun to make any little figures in the shape and clothing of children at the party — for instance in the school bus cake , on the spinning roundabout or sliding down the helter-skelter . |
| 13 | A more serious challenge to the text , however , came from a ‘ higher authority ’ — which could only mean the pope — on 24 November when the Secretary of State asked that explicit mention be made of Pius XI 's and Pius XII 's doctrine on marriage , which would not only condemn all forms of artificial contraception ( at this point , before Humanae Vitae , such a ban was not a foregone conclusion ) , but would also subordinate conjugal love to the procreation of children as the purpose of marriage . |
| 14 | I 'm an aunt nine — nearly ten times over , and we have an endless stream of children through the department . |
| 15 | There is one rather funny one , I think : ‘ Elizabeth Taylor was seen in town today wearing a yellow dress , and a group of children at the bus stop went towards her and boarded her . ’ |
| 16 | While her husband shows off his lambs , Joanna Burr demonstrates spinning to another group of children in the visitors ' centre next door . |
| 17 | At the beginning of December 1939 , Fred Dunstan was one of the adults who went with the last group of children from the transit camp to ‘ Bydown ’ , not far from Barnstaple in North Devon . |
| 18 | A special attraction is Trig , the friendly visitor from outer space , who has already captured the imagination of children around the world . |
| 19 | I do n't think for one minute that there are teachers who are drunk in charge of children in the classroom . |
| 20 | Consequently , she was again in financial difficulties in 1617 , when she unsuccessfully attempted to set up a school in St Giles in the Fields for the education of children of the nobility . |
| 21 | He payed for the education of children from the families who could n't afford it , and the ablest of the children he sent to university . |
| 22 | In the past there has been considerable dispute between teachers and their employers over the teachers ' role in the collecting of dinner money and the supervision of children during the mid-day break . |
| 23 | The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises . |
| 24 | The number and age of children in the family are important influences on female employment patterns . |
| 25 | In the autumn of 1890 Tiller was asked to present a quartet of children at the Prince of Wales Theatre , Liverpool , in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe , subtitled The Good Friday That Came On A Saturday . |
| 26 | There were undoubted gains for middle-class women in the nineteenth century , from a controlled access to divorce ( though one which sustained a double standard ) , the possibility of custody of children in the case of broken marriages , new rights in property and so on , and , no doubt many middle-class women , far from being ‘ redundant ’ , often participated in the major household decisions , supervised the servants , and increasingly gained access to birth control and hence a possibly less inhibited sexual pleasure . |
| 27 | With a variety of adults exercising control of children during the school day including class teacher , teacher on playground duty and lunch time supervisors it is possible that patterns of repeated bullying are not picked up by adults . |
| 28 | The DoH is sensitive to the charge that the Children Act has gone too far in favour of children at the expense of upholding the rights and responsibilities of parents and guardians . |
| 29 | Their model was the employment of children within the family economy of the domestic system . |
| 30 | Two legislative changes during the third quarter of the 19th century the extension of the Factory Acts in the 1860s and the Education Act of 1870 restricted the employment of children in the Potteries . |