Example sentences of "parent ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 2 | In the Republic , as in the North , a parents ' movement to set up integrated schools was started around the same time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The N.C.M.A. thinks that a minimum of £17 a week per child for full-time care is reasonable , but you could charge more depending on the parents ' earnings and the number of meals provided etc . |
| 5 | This will depend on the parents ' working hours , but it can be a long day , possibly 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.mm. , or even longer . |
| 6 | We have no knowledge of this being in his parents ' minds , but it is interesting to note that this Cohen was a Cabalist , in which tradition Leonard was deeply immersed . |
| 7 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 8 | Once it was mooted that there should be a study-period after school , but this was vetoed by the parents ' meeting which protested that it would interfere with after-school sports . |
| 9 | He omitted , as he was wont to do , his middle name , Norman ; he put the present year down for his date of birth , not 1934 ; and instead of entering ‘ Canadian ’ for his parents ' and his own nationality , he entered ‘ Jewish ’ . |
| 10 | His friend Morton , who had recently been studying art and sculpture in London , mentioned his parents ' old friends , the Pullmans , who had a place in Hampstead . |
| 11 | Their 10-year-old daughter , Jessica , who is likely to be seen with her head buried in The Beano or a Roald Dahl novel , has provided the inspiration for many of her parents ' books . |
| 12 | The Minnesota law , requiring both parents be told , was upheld by a local federal appeals court , since the parents ' consent was not required . |
| 13 | The gist of the parents ' complaints is that children were allowed too much freedom and that there was too little formal instruction in the three Rs . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal dismissed a mother 's appeal from an order of Judge Wroath in the Portsmouth County Court on 11 May 1989 that a girl should be adopted and that the parents ' consents to the adoption be dispensed with on the ground that they were unreasonably withheld . |
| 15 | As a mother , she says she sees the parents ' point of view . |
| 16 | Courts will weigh parents ' financial means in imposing fines and compensation , and they will be ordered to attend court hearings , he told the conference . |
| 17 | In London he found himself chronically overworked , unhappily married , and a failure in his parents ' eyes . |
| 18 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 19 | But his parents ' place in Hemlock Road was their base for a long time . |
| 20 | The maths teacher hated Maggie too , because one Parents ' Evening Phoebe had turned up in overalls and working boots . |
| 21 | I very much wanted to continue with my studies but had to get married in accordance with my parents ' wishes . |
| 22 | The thing is her marriage was against her in-laws ' wishes and against my parents ' . |
| 23 | All right , they say , a wife is a wife after all , but when it comes to a parents ' decision … |
| 24 | After the initial effects of this wear off , children begin to realise their own and their parents ' position . |
| 25 | Previously their view of Britain was conditioned by their parents ' expectations . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This is how Meena , a Gujerati Hindu girl whose family come from Bombay , described her parents ' attitudes : |
| 28 | Even if the child were ‘ demand fed ’ , its environment and parents ' sleep would tend to decrease the likelihood of its waking and being fed at night in comparison with the daytime . |
| 29 | As I approached the house , I noticed that my parents ' bedroom light was still on . |
| 30 | No male member of the Royal family had ever been directly involved with the hospital before , but she feels strongly that when children are in hospital it is the parents ' problem , not just the mother 's , and so the request was specifically for them both to be patrons . |