Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] children ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because I want to enjoy my children 's early years . |
| 2 | But the very poor could not afford to lose their children 's wages or their care of younger children whilst mothers worked . |
| 3 | A few authorities , however , have long had a formal policy of allowing parents to see their children 's school records , and individual schools have sometimes had an open files policy and reported beneficial results to the motivation of pupils and relations with parents . |
| 4 | In these circumstances it is often easier for parents to support their children 's non-attendance by providing bogus explanations for it . |
| 5 | Yet it is very much less easy to defend the policy of expecting parents to buy their children 's books . |
| 6 | For my own part , I did not feel prepared to jeopardise my children 's education while in pursuit of that cause . |
| 7 | Our Association was formed nearly ten years ago and is aimed at helping parents to solve their children 's problems through a local based scheme where they may contact a teacher who 's qualified in their local area and that teacher will see the child and advise the parents whether individual tuition would help him . |
| 8 | Support may help a bereaved parent to cope with his or her own feelings of loss , and thereby be better able to recognise their children 's needs and vulnerability . |
| 9 | Despite this interest in the way families raise their children , there nevertheless remains a fundamental belief that parents have an inviolable right to determine their children 's upbringing independently of outside interference . |
| 10 | I think there 's been a lot , a lot of publicity for childline , now , but you are n't directly in , associated with childline Fjn Well , we 've had , no , we 've had to call ourselves children 's line because for er obvious reasons we ca n't call ourselves childline , but it is the same type of thing , er run in a similar way , not exactly the same of course er partly because we have n't got the money that childline er attracts . |
| 11 | When the service is based on some project that the children have undertaken parents have an opportunity to appreciate their children 's work in context . |
| 12 | Absent fathers on low incomes will face higher maintenance bills and mothers who refuse to name their children 's fathers will face a deduction from their income support . |
| 13 | He was so deeply moved by this double loss that he was still able to describe his children 's last illnesses over thirty-five years later ( Aubrey De Vere , Essays , vol. ii ) . |
| 14 | It was the women who had to face their children 's disappointment at their unmet wants and it was the women who constantly had to say no : |
| 15 | For over 20 years mums have been able to rely on Calpol to relive their children 's aches and pains , fevers and teething troubles . |
| 16 | and may you live to see your children 's children . |
| 17 | Albin Michel in Paris has appointed Elizabeth Wansbrough to head its children 's publishing . |
| 18 | The question was , ‘ How can we work together to make our children 's experiences during the nursery years the best they can be ? ’ |