Example sentences of "[pron] children [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I really want is to have a home of my own and for my children to be happy . ’ |
| 2 | I , I emphasize , but some of his followers , took the view that anxiety , for example , in children , was pathological , and they , that generation of analysts tried to bring up their children to be free of anxiety , and , and then , you still get this in a lot of popular child psychology today , the idea that anxiety is always bad and always wrong . |
| 3 | Add all this together and you have a formidable coalition of parents — black , Hispanic , Asian as well as the mainly Catholic groups like the Italians and the Irish — who want schools to be orderly , their children to be safe , the teaching to be orthodox and to concentrate on reading , writing and arithmetic . |
| 4 | Most parents expect their children to be clean by the age of 2½ years , but 16 per cent of 3-year-olds still show signs of faecal incontinence once a week or more . |
| 5 | Parents have a wholly understandable desire for their children to be happy , so ( not surprisingly ) signs of discontent , sadness and storm and stress , are not easy for them to bear . |
| 6 | She tells her children to be careful on the swings , but that 's not unusual . |
| 7 | We 'll be married in the Catholic Church , and I 'll teach all our children to be good Catholics . |