Example sentences of "good [noun] of the children " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very strong impression , even now , is of a lack of diversity in the planning and delivery of activities in ways that may not be in the best interests of the children . |
| 2 | How could they say , as they all did , frequently and sanctimoniously , that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children ? |
| 3 | How could the best interests of the children be served by tearing them from their beds and flying them away from their island home to be completely separated from everything dear and familiar . |
| 4 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 5 | At no time could the department justify why they had not allowed a rabbi to visit the two Jewish children in the mainland foster homes , or permitted Quakers to visit the two Quaker children , Can all these refusals really have been in the best interests of the children ? |
| 6 | Not to do so means that they are not truly working in the best interests of the children . |
| 7 | Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 8 | ‘ I know , ’ he stressed ‘ that within the rules of the Children 's Hearing , that the best interests of the children have been weighed , and on the balance of probabilities , the appropriate action was the right action . |
| 9 | It is a system where an independent panel takes the decisions , considering the best interests of the children . |
| 10 | Mr Edwards was appalled at what could and had been done in the ‘ best interests of the children ’ . |
| 11 | In his petition , the Reporter claimed the move to the mainland would be in the best interests of the children . |
| 12 | Committee Chairman Helen Martini , however , said that if any such decision was really in the best interests of the children , they would happily go along with it . |
| 13 | The Curators , with no other concerns in the matter , were truly speaking in the best interests of the children . |
| 14 | He stuck rigidly to his statement that what had been done was absolutely essential in the best interests of the children . |
| 15 | It was , they considered , all in the best interests of the children . |
| 16 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 17 | ‘ At the time the [ father ] made his application to the court the local authority had decided that it was in the best interests of the children that they be placed with long-term foster parents . |
| 18 | ‘ If this matter rested solely upon the question of the best interests of the children I should have no doubt whatever that their welfare would be better served by their remaining in England in order that their future be determined by the High Court here . |
| 19 | There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children . |