Example sentences of "[art] parents " in BNC.

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1 In 1978 , on the basis of their professional knowledge of schooling and civil administration , the organization succeeded in obtaining the necessary government permission to open in Dalkey a multi-denominational school governed principally by the parents , the mode of religious instruction to be determined by them .
2 This is a private arrangement between you and the parents , though you may find that childminders in your area have agreed a uniform rate .
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 This will depend on the parents ' working hours , but it can be a long day , possibly 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.mm. , or even longer .
5 What do I need to discuss with the parents when taking on a child ?
6 You should make sure you know where the parents can be contacted , and that they have given you all the information you are likely to need about the child .
7 Discuss this with the parents , but you will find the Health Visitors helpful and pleased to see you .
8 Whether the parents planted a cedar tree in honour of the occasion , as another custom dictated ( girls only got a pine tree ! ) we do not know , but we can rest assured that the salutation-prayer was made with particular relish for this first son of a first son : ‘ A boy is born into the world ; a blessing has come into the world . ’
9 Once it was mooted that there should be a study-period after school , but this was vetoed by the parents ' meeting which protested that it would interfere with after-school sports .
10 There are juniors who wo n't even speak without nodding and asking the parents permission .
11 Pancho is convinced that , ‘ once the parents and the player have selected a coach , they should believe in him .
12 The film gives peace of mind to the potentially vulnerable , such as the elderly , and to the parents of young children , and it is also a deterrent to the intending intruder .
13 The Minnesota law , requiring both parents be told , was upheld by a local federal appeals court , since the parents ' consent was not required .
14 Mr Watts sent 10,000 copies of the pamphlet to MPs , peers , the Press , neighbours of Lord Aldington , the parents of pupils at Winchester and to former pupils , in an attempt to force Lord Aldington 's resignation as Warden .
15 What could I tell the parents about the national curriculum ?
16 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 .
17 ‘ Absolute horror , and then recognition that it had gone to the parents at the school for which I was responsible , and that this would inevitably result in the headmaster being approached by some parents objecting to having their child in a school with a warden like this .
18 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 .
19 The judge held that the child 's welfare required that she be adopted by the foster parents with whom she had lived for three of her five years , and that the parents were withholding agreement unreasonably .
20 As a mother , she says she sees the parents ' point of view .
21 ‘ 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 . ’
22 THE parents of 20-year-old Howard Ross-Bain , who died after he was hit by a car near the ruins of Ephesus in Turkey between 2pm and 4.30pm on Tuesday 16 August , wish to hear from any witnesses to the accident .
23 Anyway , the parents had to pay up ’ ( FN 9/2/87 , p. 11 ) .
24 One of the French Commandos seeing my predicament involved the parents in conversation , while I found no difficulty in communicating with Francoise , their daughter .
25 What the older Michael mostly remembered about this were the games — croquet in which the parents joined the children , tennis , a sort of squash with his brother hitting a tennis ball against a veranda wall , expeditions up the river through the Backs and then up to the village of Grantchester .
26 Then the parents tried the opposite method .
27 The parents continued to find Ramsey 's progress too slow .
28 This has led to situations like that described in A Job Well Done ? by Helene Middleweek and Michael Ward , a report prepared on behalf of the Co-ordination Committee for the Welfare of Evacuees from Uganda , of a family consisting of mother , father and thirteen-year-old son , where neither of the parents spoke any English and the father was almost paralysed .
29 If the parents say your wife should do this or should not do that , the boy listens to his parents .
30 Because of this , when Muslim children are not withdrawn from religious education lessons it is usually because the parents are not aware of these lessons .
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