Example sentences of "children be expected [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working-class children are expected to be independent , travel on the packed buses , take responsibility for siblings , do washing , help sell or ‘ higgle ’ in the market and work on the land . |
| 2 | This year up to fifty children are expected to be referred with cancer to Oxford 's hospitals . |
| 3 | When children were expected to be unquestioningly compliant , parents would suppress undesirable behaviour without discussing the whys and wherefores of their prohibitions . |
| 4 | The Burrows children were expected to be examples to the other youngsters in the corps , and had to sit in the front seats of any hall they attended , where Captain Burrows could keep his eagle eye on them . |
| 5 | A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect . |