Example sentences of "[adj] children who [be] " in BNC.

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1 There is not a parent of teenage children who is not worried out of their life about the use of cocaine , Ecstasy and heroin , especially when our children can obtain them almost without question anywhere in the country , even in the constituency of South Hams .
2 Reanalysis of childhood mortality data first published in 1988 raises new concerns about the health and circumstances of one of the fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups in society : lone mothers with dependent children who are largely reliant on social security benefits .
3 I mean I 'm I mean for me the issues is avoiding guilt tripping them , but at the same time erm I want them to know erm that they are real children who are being really affected and hurt and damaged and losing their parents as a result of this war , and that is a hurtful thing to know .
4 Tizard puts a similar , though less emphatic , case in Adoption : A Second Chance , which reports a study that compared children in institutional care in early life who were subsequently adopted , with similar children who were restored to their natural parent .
5 They may be irritable children who are generally difficult to care for as well as to feed ( Powell and Low 1983 ) .
6 This may also extend to corrective diets for certain unborn children who are potentially at risk .
7 The latest in hi-tech foetal monitoring will , say the experts take all the guess work out of treating unborn children who are struggling to survive
8 For a start , this is a story of a number of telepathically gifted children who were accidentally killed six years ago .
9 In addition , Sabin observed that seronegative children who were previously immunised with OPV often develop secondary immune responses when challenged with IPV , and have low rates of virus excretion when rechallenged with vaccine virus .
10 I did not mention before that theory-of-mind tasks are also typically failed by autistic children who are otherwise quite able .
11 And just as impulsively she turned to check on the movements of that incalculable swarm of half-grown children who were causing him this natural anxiety .
12 The pious and happy deaths of good little boys and girls , with , for variety , the occasional frightful deaths of irreligious children who were assumed to have passed straight to the eternal fires of hell , are continually described and lingered over in children 's books of the eighteenth and nineteenth century , from Janeway onward .
13 More timid children who are just watching can be encouraged to remember who went into the tunnel first and watch for them coming out again .
14 Even as the first-year girl drew her inferences , her headmaster , Manuel Lenarduzzi , was preparing for last night 's meeting with her parents and those of other first-year children who are the guinea pigs of the new system and whose future is one of attainment targets .
15 Mildred Gordon MP , formerly a teacher , said in her speech that ‘ far too often young children are presented , in schoolbooks and in pictures in school with the vision of the normal , acceptable , happy family as comprising a married , white middle-class man and woman , with two prissy children who are clean , neat and tidy , and yet the majority of children find that this does not relate to their households . ’
16 and perhaps rationalising a certain tier , keeping the teachers and assistants who are actually in the schools as our top priority and maintaining a careful balance between schools with very high needs and schools with isolated children who are actually even more in need of support and know how .
17 Stories , much enhanced in the retelling , circulated about dirty , lice-ridden children who were ignorant of the basic rules of civilisation : the entire stock of clothing of a girl evacuee from Liverpool might consist of a light cotton dress and a pair of plimsolls ; evacuees did not know how to use a knife and fork properly ; they displayed an alarming ignorance of the joys of country life , being surprised that apples grew on trees and not in boxes ; and , worst of all , their lack of toilet training extended way beyond mere bed-wetting ( which , it was alleged , took place frequently ) to unimaginable depths of depravity .
18 By involving everyone , the teacher included certain children who were frequently excluded from spontaneous groups , to give them experience of cooperative work .
19 In addition , the gross shortage of short-term residential care facilities is placing great strains on the parents of mentally handicapped children who are unable to gain respite from the considerable commitment they have undertaken .
20 The original division between those mentally handicapped children who were considered educable and those who were not formed some basis for the future classification of the mentally handicapped .
21 At this time the Party especially urged its officials to set an example to the country by rescuing orphaned or abandoned children who were destitute as a result of war and , in Moldavia , famine .
22 The father of one of the young children who is about to receive First Holy Communion told me that he did n't practise any faith because it bored him but still wanted his child to receive Holy Communion .
23 Concern was expressed to the Under Fives Select Committee from all quarters about the inappropriateness of curricula and care for young children who are in effect ‘ pre-school ’ but not , in the main , receiving appropriate pre-school learning experiences , and who sometimes are in classes with children up to seven years of age .
24 If these can not be readily appreciated by children — as is often the case with young children who are typically limited to understanding tasks which make immediate sense — then children will produce inappropriate responses and apparently lack the mental capacity in question .
25 ‘ Or robbing young children who are going shopping for their mothers ?
26 Part X and Sched 9 contain provisions to protect the welfare of young children who are in day care or looked after by child minders .
27 The task is anything but easy , particulary for the young children who are involved .
28 This applied both to parents of young children who were themselves in emotional or material crises , and to parents in conflict with their older children about their behaviour .
29 I was sent hither and thither on messages , and sometimes went in the car with a billeting officer to help him or her with young children who were being placed in homes .
30 It was once won by an archer who had a large family of young children who were fascinated by the spoon , which has a silver chain with a hook at the end in the form of a swan 's head and neck .
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