Example sentences of "[prep] children from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Children 's Bill will make it mandatory for nannies who look after children from several families ( three or more I believe ) to become registered as childminders . |
| 2 | From 4 July to 12 September we run ‘ Minders ’ , a child care service in Nidri , which looks after children from 4 to 13 years old who are living ashore with parents ; ideal for parents who want a holiday , especially if they 're sailing . |
| 3 | Friendships have been sundered , mothers have heckled one other in the street and schoolfriends have been separated in the row which has involved the withdrawal of scores of children from the Lady Jane Grey School in Groby , a commuter village near Leicester . |
| 4 | Aspects of the ‘ crisis ’ , such as the separation of children from their family homes , worried and frightened them , and the possibility that the doctors were wrong brought welcome relief from the pain of child sexual abuse and precipitated denial and anger in the community . |
| 5 | Only eight per cent of children from low income families ( in the Registrar General 's social classes four and five ) go to university , even though they are guaranteed a free education through a full grant plus social security . |
| 6 | Only eight per cent of children from low income families ( in the Registrar General 's social classes four and five ) go to university , even though they are guaranteed a free education through a full grant plus social security . |
| 7 | Although the eugenic risk ( that the child of an incestuous relationship between father — daughter or brother — sister will have congenital defects ) was known at the time and was probably a factor , most of the arguments of the reformers were based on the protection of children from sexual exploitation . |
| 8 | He payed for the education of children from the families who could n't afford it , and the ablest of the children he sent to university . |
| 9 | Neither the Butler Education Act of 1944 , nor the introduction of comprehensive schools , prevented a high proportion of children from under-achieving . |
| 10 | But the combination of poor school facilities , extreme political tensions in schools and in townships , constant repression and security force interference , recent exclusions of children from school and scepticism about the value of ‘ Bantu education ’ all contribute to high drop-outs and low achievement , especially at secondary level . |
| 11 | There is also a lot of humbug associated with campaigns to preserve the minds of children from pollution . |
| 12 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |
| 13 | When Czechoslovakia was in terminal crisis she raised money from the Royal Institute of British Architects to bring back a planeload of children from Prague . |
| 14 | When the exodus of children from Germany and Austria began , they were among the first to respond . |
| 15 | At the beginning of December 1939 , Fred Dunstan was one of the adults who went with the last group of children from the transit camp to ‘ Bydown ’ , not far from Barnstaple in North Devon . |
| 16 | The music group included a number of children from St Wilfrid 's primary school . |
| 17 | It was something he found hard to understand , though of course it must be accepted , this escape of children from the parental bonds so that they could have secrets from you and hiding places you could n't penetrate , that they were adults and possessed houses and cars which you had no hand in choosing or buying , that they could lock up those houses as they locked up their thoughts . |
| 18 | A few weeks later and quite unrelated to David 's experience a group of children from a neighbouring village made their way over the fields for a walk with their dogs . |
| 19 | In June 1989 , a group of children from a Delhi slum were tortured for theft ; a 13-year-old girl was stripped and beaten ; a 12-year-old boy was given electric shocks and beaten . |
| 20 | For these reasons the term has been chosen for use in the title of the present book and throughout the text to denote the whole range of children from those who are totally blind through to those who possess useful but impaired vision . |
| 21 | A recent review of the IQ debate , commissioned by the Swann inquiry , concluded that the largest variation in IQ scores was caused by the social and economic conditions under which children grew up and pointed out , ‘ If , therefore , we wish to affect the IQ scores of children from ethnic minorities , or indeed their school performance , we might make a start by improving the social and economic circumstances of their families ’ ( Mackintosh and Mascie-Taylor , 1985 , p. 148 ) . |
| 22 | our ILEA studies suggest that only about half the difference between reading scores of children from West Indian homes and their white counterparts may be accounted for by socio-economic factors . |
| 23 | For example , it was found that seven-year-old children in the sample from non-manual homes had a reading age 16 months ahead of children from manual and unskilled homes . |
| 24 | If we wanted a national sample of school-children , we could draw a sample of education authorities , then draw a sample of schools from each of those , then a sample of children from each school . |
| 25 | These are the care of children from ethnic minorities , children with disabilities and young offenders . |
| 26 | Thus the Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups ( DES , 1985 ) states that existing provision for under-fives ‘ is generally inadequate to meet the needs of the population as a whole , and may be particularly ill-suited to the needs of West Indian families ’ . |
| 27 | For example , ex-detenus such as Nayar ( 1978 ) , Tyler ( 1977 ) and Kumar ( 1979 ) have written graphic accounts of their time in gaol , another journalist Sheela Barse has fought determinedly ( including initiating law-suits ) for the removal of children from gaols , and Justices Bhagwati and Krishna Lyer made wide-ranging pronouncements — as well as damning general comments — in celebrated Supreme Court cases such as Hussainara Khatoon and Sunil Batra . |
| 28 | It is thought that the separation of children from poor parents , the keeping of children apart from parents and the removal of parental rights are undertaken too readily by these agencies . |
| 29 | Draper says , ‘ the dice are loaded against the parents ’ ; Holman that the 1975 Act ‘ concentrates exclusively on facilitating the removal of children from their families and on reducing the rights of natural parents ’ . |
| 30 | In May a two-day international discussion held on the electronic mail networks linked thousands of children from around the world . |