Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] of children " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Specialised buildings for the education of children have a relatively short history in Britain . |
| 2 | He payed for the education of children from the families who could n't afford it , and the ablest of the children he sent to university . |
| 3 | What these two exponents have in common is their deep concern for the education of children and their considerable reservations about what goes on in the name of education in our present institutions . |
| 4 | The distribution of legal responsibility for the education of children is such that parents have , in effect , a duty to send their children to school , and the state has a duty to educate them when they get there . |
| 5 | Consequently , she was again in financial difficulties in 1617 , when she unsuccessfully attempted to set up a school in St Giles in the Fields for the education of children of the nobility . |
| 6 | But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge . |
| 7 | This learning difficulty has to be ‘ significantly greater … than for the majority of children of his age ’ ; or , he has to have a ‘ disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools maintained by the local education authority concerned … ’ . |
| 8 | The Act also provides for the setting up of new procedures for the identification of children with special educational needs and for the establishment of a new definition for the term . |
| 9 | We identified four features essential to a properly founded needs policy or programme : a clear definition of the categories of needs in question ; procedures for the identification of children within each category ; means for the diagnosis of the precise needs of each child so identified ; and appropriate educational and curricular provision to meet these needs . |
| 10 | Descendants of the earlier hornbooks for the instruction of children , they were usually printed on coloured card . |
| 11 | To use another metaphor , if the world of education becomes a jungle of market forces , I fear for the survival of children with special needs . |
| 12 | For example , ex-detenus such as Nayar ( 1978 ) , Tyler ( 1977 ) and Kumar ( 1979 ) have written graphic accounts of their time in gaol , another journalist Sheela Barse has fought determinedly ( including initiating law-suits ) for the removal of children from gaols , and Justices Bhagwati and Krishna Lyer made wide-ranging pronouncements — as well as damning general comments — in celebrated Supreme Court cases such as Hussainara Khatoon and Sunil Batra . |
| 13 | During his lively speech Mr Giles sharply criticised publishers for the overproduction of children 's books , and poured scorn on their attempt to justify their differential treatment of book clubs and supermarkets . |
| 14 | This would cater for the variety of children that exist . |
| 15 | Whilst endowing the local youth department ( Jugendamt ) for the first time with full and central responsibilities for the well-being of children and young people in their area and for the maintenance of high and uniform standards of services , the Act envisages that these responsibilities be discharged through the co-ordination of private and public agencies and organizations . |
| 16 | We will provide a code of family law that will continue to underpin the institution of marriage , give priority to the welfare of the child , and emphasise the primary responsibility of parents for the welfare of children and the family . |
| 17 | The NVALA 's concern for the welfare of children — young people would perhaps be a more accurate term , given the ages Mrs Whitehouse generally included in her statements — extends further than television to the printed picture and word . |
| 18 | All organisations working for the welfare of children were invited to affiliate . |
| 19 | In this society where women hold the ultimate responsibility for the welfare of children , it is vital that money paid for the children is paid to the mother on that basis alone , in order to avoid real hardship particularly in times of crisis . |
| 20 | As part of the post-war creation of the Welfare State , the Children Act 1948 , introduced local authority departments responsible for the welfare of children . |
| 21 | Parents themselves thereupon set up a pressure group of their own ( Mother Care for Children in Hospital , now the National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital ; which , with all the enthusiasm of maternal solicitude that has the acknowledged right on its side , and with the help of a sympathetic press , is gradually altering the atmosphere of children 's hospital care . |
| 22 | The government 's new guidelines for the welfare of children in hospital aim to ensure that , in future , food for children is not only nutritious but enjoyable , too . |
| 23 | The National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital produces an excellent parents ' pack which includes a comic showing young children what to expect in hospital . |
| 24 | Many of the tips provided so far for the management of children have been relevant for adolescents . |
| 25 | Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times . |
| 26 | Family has adopted principles for the protection of children and dependent spouses which could apply equally to the unmarried . |
| 27 | Introduce a nationally co-ordinated policy for the protection of children . |
| 28 | Three main agencies share the primary responsibility for the protection of children — the police , social services and health authorities . |
| 29 | But it also noted that population would continue to rise over the next thirty years and presented the view that the state should plan future population growth by offering family allowances and income tax relief to those contemplating families along with the development of special services for the benefit of children and mothers . |
| 30 | Box 2 : OECD-RECOMMENDED SAFETY MEASURES FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS |