Example sentences of "parent may [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The view taken here is that parents may not be able to cope , and certainly they will feel this when they first discover that their child is handicapped . |
| 2 | There are a number of reasons why lone parents may not receive maintenance including the unwillingness or inability of liable relatives to pay maintenance , perhaps because of unemployment or the formation of second families . |
| 3 | The parents may not have to apply the penalty if she believes their threat because of their record of keeping their word . |
| 4 | Parents may not be able to stop their child 's tantrums altogether , but they can usually reduce the number and intensity of them . |
| 5 | The parents may not have changed but the teenager most certainly will have done . |
| 6 | Parents may not always be the best judge of what is wrong with their child , and it is a good idea to discuss the problem with a sympathetic teacher , doctor or child psychiatrist , keeping an open mind about the.possible causes of the problem . |
| 7 | First-time parents may not know how to tell stories or share pictures ; they may not know what books are available or how they should be used ; and they may not realize how important and how enjoyable books and pictures ( and talking about them ) can be . |
| 8 | Our parents may not have been Christian , or even if they were they could have been the victims of some erroneous ideas or traditions . |
| 9 | Most of us have to admit that although our parents may not have had an ideal marriage , we have learned a lot of valuable lessons from them . |
| 10 | Consequently parents may not suspect that their child has any hearing problem as there is no ear infection . |
| 11 | These parents may not be providing a good quality of interaction with their child and so demand a much higher level of therapeutic input . |
| 12 | The clinician 's role is to bring into focus some areas that parents may not have thought affected the problem . |
| 13 | In many instances the parents may not realize that their child is well occupied and has not interfered with them until it is too late and the child has started to demand attention . |
| 14 | The child may be very obstinate and self-willed and the parents may not have learned how to manage the child 's general behaviour . |
| 15 | Second , the instruments used for white middle-class parents may not be equally appropriate for black parents because they may fail to take account of different subjective experiences and racial and ethnic backgrounds . |
| 16 | Another reason why lone-parent families could gain very little from these new measures is simply that absent parents may not have incomes high enough to enable them to pay child support at the levels required . |
| 17 | Your elderly widowed parent may not only be losing her close companion , friend and confidant ( and , if she is still sexually active , as some woman are , well into the sixties and beyond , her lover ) , but also the one she depended upon for financial advice , physical protection in an increasingly violent society , and transport if she does not drive herself or can no longer afford to run a car . |
| 18 | It makes no difference that the parent may not have wished to go ( during the war ) or may not have had a choice ( death ) . |