Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of children " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a toy is wrapped in a plastic bag make sure that you keep the bag out of the reach of children . |
| 2 | Keep lighters and matches out of the reach of children . |
| 3 | a label ( ‘ Keep out of the reach of children . ’ ) |
| 4 | Of course , bedside lights need to be out of the reach of children too young to understand the dangers of electricity . |
| 5 | According to a recent report from the Consumers Association , a dose of only 3g of iron is enough to kill a toddler , yet few vitamin and mineral supplements are sold in child-resistant packs , so it 's vital to keep them out of the reach of children . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fourthly , the growing awareness of the complexity of children 's problems , coupled with an ecological perspective that views them as part of an extended family and local community with its own history and culture , mean that no single person or agency will be able to provide all the necessary services . |
| 8 | In her chapter of the development of children 's ability to write , Miranda Jones describes a longitudinal study she conducted in Edinburgh , which followed children 's understanding of writing from the preschool stage , through to how their understanding changed as they learned to write in school . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His first-hand experience of the work of Cizek in Vienna , together with his personal studies at the Euston Road School , had strengthened his knowledge of the spontaneity of the work of children . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Already we have looked at the healthy state of the majority of children when they enter this world and how their health tends to deteriorate slowly with time . |
| 14 | ‘ Need ’ was redefined in terms of learning difficulties significantly greater than those of the majority of children . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There are numerous difficulties in making an historical study which depends entirely on written evidence , which may not represent the experience of the mass of children , and is at best a distillation of the views of the literate classes . |
| 20 | First , if restriction on liberty is the defining feature of punishment , what are we to make of the experience of children who have to go to school and adults who have to work for a living ? |
| 21 | Residential care continues to form a major part of the experience of children and young people in care . |
| 22 | Giving voice to the demands , and warning about the constraints on teachers buying books , Pat Clark , a teacher and member of the Federation of Children 's Book Groups , reminded booksellers and publishers alike that ‘ books are only one of the resources needed by teachers ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The introduction of compulsory elementary education after 1870 may have prompted a re-evaluation of the cost of children because it seriously diminished the contribution the child could make to the family economy . |
| 25 | It is in a sense a part of the issue of children 's language development and links can and should be made . |
| 26 | Equally serious was its neglect of the issue of children 's learning . |
| 27 | This naturally leads to another issue — that of the independence of children within their families . |
| 28 | Your cover-photo on the Peru issue ( NI 197 ) is a perfect example of the misuse of children 's images . |
| 29 | It was an old story that Jake and Sarah 's father had never married Gran — afraid , perhaps , of the sort of children a Demdyke would bear . |
| 30 | 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 . |