Example sentences of "[adj] parents ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone resident in a house could be held liable for the support of other household members , which meant that a wage-earning son or daughter often moved out of the home in order not to diminish the unemployed parents ' entitlement to benefit . |
| 2 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |
| 3 | But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre . |
| 4 | Far from experiencing simple gratitude , such children will most likely feel terribly torn and anxious when faced with their foster parents ' offer of affection . |
| 5 | Not only that , but on hatching , the young cuckoo throws out the host species ' own eggs or young so that it has no competition for the foster parents ' time and attention . |
| 6 | TEENAGERS who were at school with alleged foster parents ' cruelty victim Paul Llewelyn Jones told a court yesterday they remembered seeing marks on his body . |
| 7 | If you go to the normal parents ' class you get -Oh yeah — another one , does n't know a lot , just got pregnant for the fun of it , but the midwives , Ros and Maureen , they treat you different . |
| 8 | Units and credits should be an important topic for discussion on parents ' evenings and at meetings of our proposed tutor-group parents ' associations . |
| 9 | The first real impact of the 1986 Act came to governors with the requirements to produce a formal report to parents and hold an annual parents ' meeting . |
| 10 | Their chairman would have the support of both the Secretary of State and the LEA in discouraging , and ultimately forbidding , discussion of the performance of an individual pupil or teacher at an annual parents ' meeting . |
| 11 | That forum , also established by the 1986 Education ( No. 2 ) Act , is the annual parents ' meeting ( APM ) . |
| 12 | At a too typical parents ' evening Mr and Mrs Bloggs are directed to a folded card bearing Fred 's name resting on a slightly dog-eared pile of exercise books . |
| 13 | In the course of this conflict it is shown that whilst much of the relevant legislation — for example , on school admissions — may emphasise individual parents ' rights , in practice it is not always easy to accommodate them . |
| 14 | There has been a steady increase in illegitimacy in the 1980s accompanied by a rise in unmarried parents ' applications to court for maintenance , custody and access . |
| 15 | The outstanding feature of black parents ' relationship with their children 's sport is that it does not exist . |
| 16 | These may include events organised by the school such as regular parents ' evenings , careers evenings , prize-givings , Compact meetings or socials . |
| 17 | In the same week in which the Wall Street Journal editorial appeared , it was announced in Britain that an extensive study of lone parents ' reliance on social security would be carried out after comments from Ministers that the state is having to foot the bill for the so-called dependency culture ( Guardian , 18 January 1989 , p. 3 ) . |
| 18 | For example , maintenance payments and child and one parent benefit can be added on to any earnings from employment to increase lone parents ' incomes . |
| 19 | This section describes the growth of self-help parents ' groups and services for parents developed by several voluntary associations . |
| 20 | A terrified bodybuilder was held at knifepoint by three burglars as they ransacked his disabled parents ' home . |
| 21 | Developing parents ' confidence |
| 22 | To keep warm she often goes to Plus One , a single parents ' organisation . |
| 23 | Our admissions policy and er , er pre- establishments throughout the education department certainly takes account of erm single parents ' situations , particularly the stress that 's involved in bringing up parents in that respect because it 's it 's the stress that 's involved rather than |
| 24 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |
| 25 | NEW PARENTS ' GUIDE TO PLAYDAYS ( 10.05 DAILY BBC 1 ) |
| 26 | PARENTS have fewer rights over their children 's schooling under the new Parents ' Charter , says a report out today . |
| 27 | There 's generally one in the main parents ' bedroom , perhaps there 's one in one in er one of the youngsters ' bedrooms , there could even be one in the kitchen these days . |
| 28 | They may have come upon documents relating to their early life when they cleared out the dead parents ' papers . |
| 29 | Asian parents ' attitudes to their daughter 's education vary tremendously with their religion , background in Pakistan or India , and , of course , with the people involved . |
| 30 | Contact with ‘ Humnawa ’ , an Asian parents ' support group , produced a mailing list of 65 families . |