Example sentences of "children ['s] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Even more unfortunately many professionals seems to encourage this by taking on ‘ ownership ’ of the children 's problems in the cases they deal with .
2 The teacher does not allow the ‘ unnatural ’ pursuit of any mathematical ideas to spoil the children 's enjoyment of the activity .
3 There were so many limousines and lesser limousines and cars in attendance on the lesser limousines that the queue of cars stretched from Volley 's Pizza and Pasta House down to the Polka Children 's Theatre on the frontiers of Wimbledon .
4 Given that the main aims of most arts departments , and of the examination syllabuses in arts subjects , refer to the development of such qualities as ‘ imagination ’ , ‘ creativity ’ , and the ‘ ability to respond expressively to given stimuli ’ ; qualities that are essentially concerned with that same kind of engagement with ‘ sensuous forms ’ mentioned above , and we are left asking the question ‘ Can , or even should , children 's work in the arts be examined at all ? ’
5 From my interviews with the arts teachers during the survey it was apparent that , even though there were criticisms of certain aspects of the philosophy underlying the issue of examinations in particular , there was clearly a widespread belief that children 's work in the arts could and should be assessed and examined .
6 A Children 's Rights Commissioner should be appointed immediately to ensure that children 's rights in the UK are upheld .
7 Beautifully appropriate , the children 's window in the transept on the north side of the church , shows Christ holding a child in his arms , a lamb at his feet .
8 At Edgehill , the science department was divided into biological and environmental sciences , instead of the traditional biology , physics and chemistry ; the head teacher was a conscious advocate of innovation in comprehensive schooling ; in the third school , Meadowvale , the science department had decided to redraft its entire first and second year science curriculum , in part because of the children 's response to the VISTA visits organized by GIST .
9 By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’
10 PARENTS have fewer rights over their children 's schooling under the new Parents ' Charter , says a report out today .
11 How do they view their children 's schooling in the light of their own educational values and practices ?
12 Also getting a lot of media attention was the National Study of Childhood Cancer , which is going to look at a number of background environmental factors in all children 's cancers during the next five years .
13 If children 's anxiety in the transition to a new school can be eased by minimising the changes between class groups and between teachers at no extra cost , and no loss of educational effectiveness , it obviously makes sense to do so .
14 How closely guarded are the children 's wards during the night ?
15 The social workers in Orkney did not go to the children 's teachers before the removal of the children to find out if there were any problems at school .
16 In the early years of schooling , for example , children 's activities in the play area frequently include shopping .
17 In this they reflected the children 's literature of the time as created by authors such as Noel Streatfield , Christine Pullien-Thompson and Enid Blyton .
18 worked with people in the Hungerford massacres , and Elizabeth Howell is on the line from London from a London group called Exploring Parenthood , which organizes workshops to help parents in schools cope with children 's feelings about the war .
19 To Frankie Rickford , a journalist on the Guardian , to Elizabeth Capewell , director of the Centre for Educational Responses to Disaster , and to Elizabeth Howell from Exploring Parenthood , which organizes workshops to help parents and schools cope with children 's feelings about the war .
20 Tertiary prevention can be illustrated by the work of professionals in the children 's departments in the fifties and sixties , who increasingly intervened in family situations before the point of a child 's admission to care ( Donnison , 1975 ) .
21 Tuesday : Aerobics followed by pony riding and children 's tennis in the afternoon .
22 Either they joined in with their adult workmates or they played children 's games in the streets .
23 Players stood signing autographs ; the usual multiplicity of children 's games in the outfield started up immediately .
24 The contribution of parents and teachers to children 's achievement in the infant school
25 Some hospitals are already trying to make mealtimes more fun by having children 's favourites on the menu or giving them child-friendly utensils , but many hospitals lag behind .
26 The question was , ‘ How can we work together to make our children 's experiences during the nursery years the best they can be ? ’
27 ‘ One of the very best children 's shows in the world ’ .
28 Sports sponsorship by tobacco companies and particularly the televising of sponsored events increases children 's awareness of the brands [ 7 ] and those children with favourite advertisements have been shown to have more positive views on smoking than those without .
29 We did n't see these worksheets as just to be doled out , but as positive steps to increasing children 's awareness of the library and how to use it .
30 Middlesbrough 's beck valleys are the main attention of the children 's efforts in the mammoth tidy-up co-ordinated by the council 's public protection department .
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