Example sentences of "children from " in BNC.

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1 We already support over 70 children from the families we visit .
2 And all parents need to know something about them in order to help protect their children from danger , now or in the future .
3 One of their problems , of course , is Englishing children from other cultures .
4 He has got off lightly : we learn with mildly comic surprise of mitigating circumstances : he had been good to a consumptive fellow student , and he had saved two children from a blazing house , getting burnt himself while doing so .
5 Podvig , also prominent in the Crime and Punishment notebooks , gets relegated in the final text to the Epilogue where it is seen at its simplest in the mitigating circumstance that the murderer is discovered at his trial to have burnt himself rescuing two little children from a blazing house .
6 Friendships have been sundered , mothers have heckled one other in the street and schoolfriends have been separated in the row which has involved the withdrawal of scores of children from the Lady Jane Grey School in Groby , a commuter village near Leicester .
7 The policy caters for children from three to 18 years of age or when they start work , whichever is the sooner .
8 Aspects of the ‘ crisis ’ , such as the separation of children from their family homes , worried and frightened them , and the possibility that the doctors were wrong brought welcome relief from the pain of child sexual abuse and precipitated denial and anger in the community .
9 The means-tests would be accompanied by powers to bind-over parents to prevent their children from offending and to ‘ hit them in the pocket if they do n't ’ .
10 Usually these are children from one-parent families , children in local-authority care , or youngsters who need a respite from the household chores they assume as surrogate adults because their parents are ill , and even , in some cases , children with a parent in prison , and are selected for inclusion in the scheme not by the police but by schools and other caring agencies .
11 The services on offer from the Community Relations Branch include the ‘ blue lamp disco ’ , a title evocative of George Dixon and consensus policing ; the organization of disco-dancing competitions and football tournaments with children from other police divisions in Belfast ; nature rambles ; access to outward-bound centres , some in Great Britain , the cost of attendance being borne by the RUC ; swimming lessons , including swimming for visually handicapped children ; and the provision in schools of classes on first aid , safety , and law , and of other general campaigns aimed at children , like the ‘ Say No To Strangers ’ campaign .
12 Their cultural as well as their economic life could be broadened : in the winter of 1922–3 it was found that more peasant children from families owning draught animals attended school regularly than those without any .
13 At present British single mothers can not pass on their citizenship to children born abroad , nor can married women pass on their citizenship to children from abroad with non-UK fathers .
14 Some children from Hindu families even attended Sunday school , mainly because there was nothing much else to do at weekends .
15 I 'm 32 and have two children from a first marriage — a daughter of 10 and a son of 13 .
16 That 's enough to provide 100 antibiotic tablets to fight infections and sufficient vaccine to protect four children from polio for life .
17 A solar-powered refrigerator to store vaccines which protect children from fatal diseases .
18 Diseases which cause our young only minor discomfort kill one in four children from Sierra Leone before their fifth birthday .
19 As part of the Society 's work to protect children from abuse and neglect a national NSPCC Child Protection Help Line is being launched in the Spring of 1991 .
20 One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon .
21 The old Victorian hospital , which has performed miracles on thousands of sick children from all over the world in the intervening years , had reached the end of its life .
22 As the helicopter came down to land , to their dismay they saw that the organizers had not only laid on about fifteen different activities for the Prince to inspect , including mountain-bike scrambling ; but children from no fewer than five primary schools were gathered together in great banks to greet him .
23 By praying that many children from the local area will be drawn to the Holiday Club and the Church , with their families , and ultimately to faith in Jesus .
24 He said : ‘ The Jewish religion prescribes for parents to teach their children from an early age .
25 Only eight per cent of children from low income families ( in the Registrar General 's social classes four and five ) go to university , even though they are guaranteed a free education through a full grant plus social security .
26 Only eight per cent of children from low income families ( in the Registrar General 's social classes four and five ) go to university , even though they are guaranteed a free education through a full grant plus social security .
27 The trust organised the first Children of Science Awards , bringing together in London yesterday 150 incapacitated children from Europe , the Soviet Union , the Middle East , and Australia who have been helped by science .
28 ATORY MP yesterday made the first admission that the Government does not know whether children from poorer backgrounds will be put off higher education by the introduction of top-up loans , writes Celia Weston .
29 Critics of the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill , say that incurring debts will particularly discourage children from working-class families from going into higher education .
30 Mr William K. Reilly , the agency 's administrator , said the immediate cancer risk to children from fungicide residues was negligible .
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