Example sentences of "of the [noun] of children [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1970s the Department of Education and Science pinned its hopes on the APU to provide a general measure of the achievement of children at schools and , implicitly , changes in standards over time . |
| 2 | The Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers compared the job histories of the fathers of children with cancers to those of the fathers of healthy children and found that those who worked with nuclear materials were at risk . |
| 3 | A study of the earnings of children in York in the 1970s compared with their fathers ' earnings in the 1950s found a coefficient of earnings of nearly 0.5 . |
| 4 | Observational and interview data or developmentally salient aspects of Unit life were collected as supplementary data during a study of the development of children in prison Mother and Baby Units . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A more complicated pattern of movement was revealed by an analysis of the birthplace of children in those sixty-four families which had children under the age of twelve . |
| 8 | It was only when I was in secondary school and took notice of the relationship of children of my age were with their parents and families , that I realised how other people behaved . |
| 9 | This naturally leads to another issue — that of the independence of children within their families . |
| 10 | From examination of family life and some of the needs of children at home , the next writer , Nigel Parton , moves to the tragic issue of child abuse , a form of adult behaviour which makes some children 's home life a nightmare and which social workers find is one of the most difficult problems they have to address . |
| 11 | Powerful voluntary organisations such as MENCAP ( the Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults ) and the Spastics Society have helped to raise political and public awareness of the needs of children with disabilities and have fought hard and on the whole successfully to secure better services for them and for their families . |
| 12 | The effectiveness of pupil learning in all curriculum areas , changes in teachers ' attitudes and awareness of the needs of children with learning difficulties , and long-term modifications to curriculum materials and teaching strategies will all be equally , if not more , relevant . |
| 13 | This upward movement in the social hierarchy by many working-class boys ( significantly none of the studies has looked at girls ) has not been achieved at the expense of the opportunities of children from middle-class backgrounds , but by an explosion in the number of middle-class jobs — or an expansion in the service class or the salariat . |
| 14 | Harpin does , incidentally , offer working definitions for sentence division in a text that has multiple coordination ( i.e. strings of clauses joined by and or and so or and then ) which is , of course , a highly typical feature of the writing of children in junior schools . |
| 15 | ‘ Everyone concerned with the future of the care of children within the NHS must be satisfied that every aspect of the case is available for full public scrutiny , ’ he said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But it reveals that a shortage of staff to deal with the removal of youngsters from the register gives a ‘ totally inaccurate picture ’ of the number of children at risk of abuse . |
| 18 | For instance , the value of the total toy market is a function of the number of children of the relevant ages , the access of these children ( as permitted by their parents ) to retail outlets , and industry or market research figures for per capita expenditure per child on toys , suitably adjusted for inflation , increased in personal disposable income ( etc ) . |
| 19 | The school at present has no spare classroom space and no likelihood of the number of children in decreasing . |
| 20 | Even in the nineteenth century the total revenue raised from parents in industrial schools only amounted to between 2.5 and 5 per cent of expenditure , while in the period 1948–69 the parental share of the costs of children in care amounted only to between 4 per cent and 6.5 per cent . |
| 21 | Difficulty was defined in terms of the numbers of children at each age level getting each item right . |
| 22 | This project will provide an up-to-date study of the impact of such factors on the size and composition of the population of children in care and on the likelihood of children coming into care . |
| 23 | Secondly , trends in various socio-demographic and economic variables will be compared with trends in the size and composition of the population of children in care in collaboration with those involved in a complementary programme of research at the University of Bristol . |