Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the [noun sg] of children " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood . |
| 2 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 3 | The intention was to address the needs of the majority of children through a combination of the ‘ broadly-based curriculum ’ and ‘ flexible teaching strategies ’ , and to use additional programmes and resources to cater for certain specific categories of need . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what account was taken in the review of the arrangements for income support of homeless families of the need of children of homeless families in bed-and-breakfast accommodation to have a balanced diet ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 5 | Studies of the development of children 's writing and spelling suggest that whilst certain broad principles of development can be discerned , children follow a wide variety of individual developmental paths within these principles ( Bissex 1980 , Read 1986 ) . |
| 6 | We do not , as yet , have enough long-term studies of the minority of children adopted without consent , especially if contact was artificially terminated and if the child was aware of a battle between the two sets of parents . |
| 7 | This approach does little to help teachers cut through the educational rhetoric and sort out those practices which are most productive in terms of the quality of children 's learning . |