Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] of child ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of children 's behaviour it is the parents who have to face the problems and so ultimately it is the parents who have to solve them . |
| 2 | The reason for the change is the huge increase in the output of children 's books — in 1970 just over 2,000 titles were published , last year just over 7,000 — and the organisers have now decided that a new method of selection should be put in place . |
| 3 | You will be able to explore those formative years when Sooty played an important role in the development of children 's entertainment . |
| 4 | Piaget identified a number of stages in the development of children 's reasoning powers . |
| 5 | The three things that I remember most clearly about Basil were , firstly , his great interest in the development of children 's powers of observation , to help them with their aesthetic expression . |
| 6 | For example , voluntary organizations played , and will continue to play , a central role in the provision of children 's services ; they were also influential in shaping new child care legislation ( for example : The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Children Act , 1908 ; Association of British Adoption Agencies and the 1975 Children Act ) . |
| 7 | There is some evidence that such differing expectations ( in this case that boy 's work is ‘ better ’ than girls ' work ) , are being brought into play in the marking of children 's work : |
| 8 | At this juncture the parents take an almost equal responsibility , and a system of co-education is introduced in the form of children 's games . |
| 9 | And the thing just snowballed and we 've managed to accumulate something like £6,000 and about 40 tons of gifts in the form of children 's clothing , children 's toys er medicaments of one sort or another , various creams recommended to us by pediatricians , er shampoos and other things like antibiotics and so on which we 're taking over on behalf of er a medical team from Banbury . |
| 10 | A good example of this arises in the study of children 's reasoning , particularly in their ability to make what are known as transitive inferences . |
| 11 | In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest in the study of children 's training about economic issues . |
| 12 | At each level of the system we found claims to breadth and balance undermined by countervailing policies and practices : by Authority special projects favouring some areas at the expense of others ; in central INSET provision ; in PNP development fund allocations ; in the distribution of posts of responsibility in schools ; in school-based INSET ; in the status of postholders and the time they had to undertake their curriculum leadership responsibilities ; in the areas of the curriculum subjected to review and development ; in teacher expertise ; and above all in the quality of children 's classroom experiences . |
| 13 | We believe that proper steps towards these aims would contribute to securing further improvement in the quality of children 's education . ’ |
| 14 | Developments in the reform of children 's services do not appear to have been influenced by this body of knowledge to the same extent as the reforms of ‘ adult services ’ . |
| 15 | In 1845 Thomas Hartshorne had told a parliamentary enquiry that Thurmaston had about 400 frames , which specialized in the production of children 's socks and a few gloves . |