Example sentences of "keep child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus what social workers thought of as ‘ prevention ’ ( keeping children out of care ) was perceived by many parents as refusal to offer any positive support , and indeed refusal to give any help at all . |
| 2 | The trouble is that television is often used as a means of keeping children quiet , and their parents have no idea what they are watching . |
| 3 | Another finding that may prove useful in keeping children away from the wicked weed is that they are much influenced by parents , teachers and peers . |
| 4 | They must be good for manual dexterity and keeping children occupied . ’ |
| 5 | To quote an Amnesty International poster : ‘ Brazil has solved the problem of keeping children off the streets . |
| 6 | The Derbyshire Times noted that defiant parents were voting with their feet by keeping children away from school . |
| 7 | A couple of bins tilled with skipping ropes , tennis balls , a few plastic bats , a football and even some homemade stilts help keep children happy . |
| 8 | A box of toys stored in the headteacher 's room for such occasions will keep children happily occupied whilst the head and parents talk . |
| 9 | Jazz Chants for Children provides a way of teaching the rhythm , stress , and intonation of American English which will keep children enthralled . |
| 10 | The Rewards and Punishments then , whereby we should keep children in order , are quite of another kind ; and of that force , that when we can get them once to work , the Business , I think , is done , and the Difficulty is over . |
| 11 | This program will keep children of 4 years upwards amused for hours . |
| 12 | ‘ Mirror mirror on the wall , who is the fairest of them all ? ’ is just one of many lines that will keep children enthralled in the new Sainsbury Book of Fairytales . |
| 13 | No , I mean if the parents ca n't keep children under straight and narrow |
| 14 | 4 For novice gardeners — the Chelful Junior Gardener Set at £20 keeps children entertained for hours |
| 15 | Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo sought to ease fears by insisting the Government would stick to its manifesto pledge to keep child benefit rising in line with inflation . |
| 16 | The mother sometimes finds it very difficult to give away an almost impossible to keep child and the child , when grown up , may think about why their mother gave them away . |
| 17 | Adults , by seeking to be protective and to keep children from pain and distress , actually create it for them . |
| 18 | The region suffers high unemployment , rural as well as urban deprivation , and in many areas schools struggle to keep children on beyond the age of 16 . |
| 19 | It 's cheaper than the five-door models and may suit drivers who seldom carry back-seat passengers , or who do the school run and prefer to keep children encapsulated . |
| 20 | If you need something to keep children busy and out of mischief this summer try this stylish games mat . |
| 21 | The couple began fighting for the right to keep children Moses , 14 , Dylan , seven and Satchel , four , after Mia revealed Allen 's affair with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi . |
| 22 | Argyll and Bute district council did post warning notices at Loch Awe advising people to keep children and pets off the shore , but these were recently removed after the hot weather which had made the problem worse was over . |
| 23 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ Local authorities have to accept that if they 've made every effort to keep children at home with the non-abusing parent and it does n't work , they may have to be taken into care . ’ |
| 24 | Radio RIN also has its own strategy to keep children abreast of current affairs worldwide . |
| 25 | Education was important too for the Pooters , if only to keep children out of manual work , even though the multitude of clerks ' jobs were often less well paid — £70 per year — than much manual work . |
| 26 | Packman has examined the way in which social workers in children 's departments gradually found that good child care practice required not merely the control and care powers possessed under the 1948 Children 's Act but also preventive work to keep children out of ‘ care ’ . |
| 27 | Whole-class teaching , usually seen as the device most likely to keep children on task , may well reduce distraction ( or at least distraction of an undisguised kind ) but it may also increase the time children spend awaiting attention , and indeed our own figures on group sizes tend to confirm this . |
| 28 | Pippa Pop-ins in Fulham , London , is the first nursery to keep children aged 1–12 overnight , with ‘ midnight feasts ’ at 8pm and fairies at the bottom of the garden . |
| 29 | A mini-assault course is also a good way to keep children nearer the ground , with tubes to wriggle through , tyres to jump in and nets to crawl on . |
| 30 | The door was permitted to be of the cottage order , double , the bottom half , lower than that of a stable door , was designed to keep children in and chickens out — not that chickens were approved , their appearance was not conducive to the small dignity of the Gate Lodge . |