Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] child ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now schools can ‘ opt out ’ from local authority control , so that the people who care most about children 's futures — especially parents and teachers — are together empowered to make the key decisions . |
| 2 | So for children 's fables you might have : |
| 3 | ‘ We thought the worse and that VAT would be imposed on things like newspapers and reading material , along with children 's clothing , but that did not happen . |
| 4 | Real books are those written by authors who have something they need to say and that have been published separately as children 's books , not teaching aids . |
| 5 | The Ashleys annexed Number 25 , to be used only for selling fabric ( at thirty-five pence per yard ) as the factory was still producing far more than could be made up into garments , while Number 23 was used just for children 's clothes . |
| 6 | Hoppity in Hartlepool is one of the few nearly new shops specialising just in children 's clothes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If teacher training is about preparing young men and women to work sensitively to children 's needs , and to provide a work force of newly trained teachers who are able to fit into schools effectively , the way in which initial teacher education is developing deserves careful reappraisal . |
| 9 | Research into classroom interaction has not focused directly on children 's explanations . |
| 10 | Delightful illustrations — including the wacky cartoon characters Wizzy the witch and Morgan the monster — appeal directly to children 's imaginations and sense of humour . |
| 11 | From children 's adventure stories and animal stories , to science fiction and fantasy topics , and more traditional and factual tales , Start with English Readers appeal directly to children 's interests and extend their English reading in the most natural way possible . |
| 12 | Sainsbury 's likes to keep up with children 's computer crazes and , following the success of the SuperMario party cake designed by Jane Asher , SuperMario Mini rolls have now been launched . |
| 13 | There are several black children who have grown up in children 's homes with purely white staff , and others who have been placed with white families who are isolated geographically and have no contact with black people ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 134 ) . |
| 14 | A significant number have been brought up in children 's homes themselves . |
| 15 | The plastic protective cover doubles as a wall hanger , keeping the tool safely out of children 's reach |
| 16 | Keep alcoholic drinks out of children 's reach . |
| 17 | Palmer had spent most of his life in and out of children 's homes and was in care himself when he became stepfather to the baby . |
| 18 | OUP Australia pulling out of children 's books |
| 19 | The 700 sq ft shop , called Ottakars Children 's , has a range of around 4,000 titles , and has been fitted out with children 's play and adult seating areas . |
| 20 | The justice meted out in children 's games ( like that on the screen ) may be rough and ready , but it can be argued that ‘ violent play ’ is by no means all negative . |
| 21 | ‘ You ca n't pussyfoot around with children 's welfare . ’ |
| 22 | Asking the children to write advertisements for a new teacher provides valuable insights into children 's values : kind , not too strict , gives interesting lessons , does n't shout , all seem to appear frequently in children 's specifications . |
| 23 | I have never found this to run , even on children 's cardigans . |
| 24 | But we know children can be at risk from even well-qualified professionals appointed to care for them ( not least in children 's homes to which they have been sent for their own welfare and safety ) , or from parents not burdened by a ‘ learning difficulty ’ label ( witness the recent ‘ home alone ’ cases here and in the United States ) . |
| 25 | The books are delightfully illustrated and full of activities which appeal irresistibly to children 's intelligence , creativity , and sense of fun , from drawing , matching , and discrimination tasks , to following directions and problem-solving . |
| 26 | Stubbs points out , for instance , that many of the confusions for children acquiring literacy arise because these children are not yet familiar with some of the purposes for which writing is used and the conventions through which these purposes are articulated in their culture : ‘ many of its functions are often so specialised and particular ’ that they are ‘ mostly quite beyond children 's experience ’ and ‘ many of the situations which conventionally require writing are of a fairly specialised and restricted kind ’ ( ibid. p. 108 ) . |
| 27 | Arm-chairs and bedroom slippers instead of children 's foods is one extreme instance of the change-over from the requirements of youth to those of old age . |
| 28 | Doing them altogether , I find difficult to do , apart from the weather point of view , if it could be fitted to two maybe , you know you co you go to somewhere in Church Stretton okay , it 's distant enough when you have one place to go , when you do the Wellington section , you 've got four , and I find it very difficult to work and chase round to children 's homes , to give it any . |
| 29 | Sadly , the current infighting about children 's reading will do little to encourage publishers or booksellers to engage seriously in children 's literature . |
| 30 | Written dialogue in which , as here , source markers are suspended is at once nearer to and farther from children 's experience than is the form with source markers present . |