Example sentences of "children have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 2 | Abuse of children has been recognised as an important concern because children are seen to represent the future ; to abuse them is to abuse the future welfare of the nation . |
| 3 | FRESH evidence that there is not a link to toxic chemical sprays , such as Agent Orange , and increased birth defects in veterans ' children has been provided in a study by the Australian Commonwealth Institute of Health . |
| 4 | If the scientists are right , then a major clue about how cancer develops in children has been found . |
| 5 | The protection of children has been the subject of important detailed legislation and much guidance from central government . |
| 6 | Extreme sibling abuse by 4-year-old children has been reported although this is rare . |
| 7 | In recent years , the decrease in the number of deaf children has been greater than the general national decrease , though this is mainly in the numbers of partially-hearing children rather than deaf children . |
| 8 | So too has the rise of feminist versions of the nature of parenting , in which , for example , the daily physical care of children has been demystified to lay bare the sheer labour involved , and hence the need to share this burden equally rather than regard it as an unequivocal privilege ( see , for example , Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 9 | A MAJOR drive to keep drugs and medicines out of the hands of children has been launched in Essex . |
| 10 | The cost in foregone earnings of bearing two children has been estimated at £119,000 if they are born when the mother is in her early 20s to £121,000 if they are born when the mother is in her mid-30s ( Joshi 1987a ) . |
| 11 | Particularly significant to families with children has been the loss of single payments and their replacement by loans . |
| 12 | Having children has been a perfectly logical response of families to the hardship and famine which have resulted from these processes . |
| 13 | The sale of cigarettes to children has been illegal since 1904 . |
| 14 | The use of children to tutor other children has been widely acknowledged as a successful teaching strategy in a variety of curriculum and ex-curriculum subjects . |
| 15 | In Birmingham , use of Creole by primary school children has been reported and tape recordings have been made ( G. Power , personal communication ) . |
| 16 | A forty year old Glasgow widower who admitted sex offences against children has been sent to jail for five years . |
| 17 | This is a magnificent record , thank you and and in nineteen ninety three I would like to announce the day that Save The Children has been unanimously chosen by the charities aid foundation as its first recipient of the charity of the year award nineteen ninety three . |
| 18 | A police investigation at a school for disturbed children has been stepped up after claims of abuse going back more than twenty years . |
| 19 | A governor of a school for disturbed children has been accused of importing obscene magazines . |
| 20 | A former vice chairman of governors at a school for disturbed children has been fined nine hundred pounds for importing pornographic material . |
| 21 | A CAMPAIGN to prevent accidents among children has been launched by health officials after a unique study on likely dangers . |
| 22 | A NEW road safety initiative aimed at reducing the toll of deaths and injuries to children has been launched in Cheshire . |
| 23 | A POSTER campaign to help farmers make their farms safer for children has been launched by NFU Mutual chairman Alun Evans at the Mutual 's head office at Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 24 | We arrive to witness a near riot — the dull hungry eyes of the children having been lit up by fear that the food is about to run out . |
| 25 | Fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were more likely than fathers of control children to have been employed by the nuclear industry , but the excess was not significant . |
| 26 | Once initial interviews with children had been videotaped , the prosecution should have the right to apply for a pre-trial hearing before the judge , in informal surroundings , at which the child could be examined and cross-examined . |
| 27 | After attending a local nursery school , some children had been able to write their own names . |
| 28 | They both appeared sad throughout the evening and I suspected that there was something wrong ; possibly the two children had been injured when their previous home had been damaged by shellfire . |
| 29 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 30 | ‘ The humane and futile gestures of our forebears as they kept watch over the dead children had been accurately predicted by the invaders , who sped away , hacking a path through the fields that lay between the port and our village of Sandweg . |