Example sentences of "children might be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking to a friend recently about this , I was shocked when she suggested that smacking our children might be seen as abuse . |
| 2 | Perhaps , for instance , educational programmes for parents of disabled or ill children might be evaluated to see if reducing any over-involved or overcritical parenting styles reduces the child 's later risk of schizophrenia . |
| 3 | Some children might be asked to predict the two-dimensional shape that will be produced from the three-dimensional shape . |
| 4 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 5 | Additional encouragement and training for children might be provided by congregational ‘ creative ’ days , when young and old alike meet together to make music , as well as to take part in other activities . |
| 6 | Data from a large sample will show the earliest age at which a child would be expected to gain control of a particular aspect of language , and the age by which 90 per cent or 95 per cent of non-handicapped children might be expected to show evidence of the same ability . |