Example sentences of "mother [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midwives and health visitors may be able to offer long-term support for relinquishing mothers and/or families when adoption agency input ceases . |
| 2 | Neglected children were sent to special schools and never allowed to see their mothers or fathers or nannies again for the rest of their lives . |
| 3 | Mothers or fathers on their own who can not earn their own living , or who decide ( as they are fully entitled to ) that they would prefer to care for their children instead , must get paid for the important work they do . |
| 4 | Social pressures upon them to be " good parents " are strong : to complain about the situation would indicate that they are less adequate as mothers or fathers than they should be . |
| 5 | How easy or difficult it is for girls to tell their parents that they are pregnant also depends on how accustomed they are to confiding in their mothers or fathers about periods , boyfriends , sex and contraception . |
| 6 | RARELY are mothers or fathers shown participating in a wide variety of domestic chores not only the ones traditional for their sex ; |
| 7 | Moreover most of these women , unlike perhaps their mothers or grandmothers , will see themselves as workers , earning an income and pursuing a career — rather like male members of families . |
| 8 | There is another reason for retaining a younger image at forty and fifty than our mothers or grandmothers did . |
| 9 | However , this makes no allowance for deaths of the mothers or deaths before 15 among the daughters replacing them . |
| 10 | It seems that the calls [ of horses ] are highly individual and mothers and foals in particular can recognize and respond to one another 's voice . |
| 11 | All this hippy chic is not terribly exotic for British men who grew up with long hair , earth mothers and hipster jeans . |
| 12 | Data will be collected by means of questionnaires to mother and fathers and interviews with mothers and siblings . |
| 13 | The anguish experienced by mothers and families in the process of generation replacement defy statistical description ; only the extent of the suffering can be roughly outlined . |
| 14 | They have frozen child benefit for three years so that mothers and families are nearly £1 billion worse off than they would otherwise have been . |
| 15 | Careful screening , and matching of surrogate mothers and commissioning parents , are important steps in that direction . |
| 16 | The discovery was a direct outcome of the interest of Dr Bevan Reid ( Reader in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sydney University 's Queen Elizabeth II Research Centre for Mothers and Infants ) in the cause of cancer , and his aim to resolve the many questions surrounding the problem . |
| 17 | Current experimental work with mothers and infants sleeping together in sleep laboratories is tracing the interaction of their patterns of breathing , and has found that in such conditions infants spend less time in deep stages of sleep . |
| 18 | Birthtales became a story woven together by artists , poets , performers , mothers and healers from different cultural backgrounds . |
| 19 | Indeed , in writing about unmarried mothers and child separation , he specifically states that the wishes of the mothers should be taken into consideration more strongly in the legislation concerning the future of their children . |
| 20 | High Street giant Marks & Spencer came last in a poll to find public places with the best facilities for mothers and toddlers . |
| 21 | Mr Bleasdale said the pool was chosen because it had ‘ every facility known to man ’ and added the staff had all been very helpful as had the mothers and toddlers from the Colchester area employed as extras . |
| 22 | For the community work I went to help with the Mothers and Toddlers group that was held next door to the school . |
| 23 | It is encouraging to see that the Society is also moving with the times and its work with people with a disability , mothers and toddlers and its preparations for the arrival of National Vocational Qualifications are to be commended . |
| 24 | Mothers and toddlers group , Morton Community Centre , 8-10 Lorne Street , Lisburn Road , 10am-1pm . |
| 25 | Lee 's of Liverpool and other John Lewis outlets topped the poll to find public places with the best facilities for mothers and toddlers . |
| 26 | During February Chris Ruffle addressed the AGM of the National Playgroup Association in Ashford on the subject of Medau work with mothers and toddlers . |
| 27 | The afternoon 's programme will consist of Open Classes , a class for older children and one for mothers and Toddlers , all this followed by a full display programme . |
| 28 | I do n't want to be stuck inside at mothers and toddlers all morning if it |
| 29 | What did you do Tim at mothers and toddlers ? |
| 30 | Some German women are up in arms , No thank you , they say to going back to the role of mothers and home builders . |