Example sentences of "children [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has achieved his life-ambition of independance from his landlord the Duke of d'Abrizzio , and he and his wife Maria have eight children to be proud of though he is blind to their faults . |
| 2 | Parents allow children to be involved in prostitution because they bring in money . |
| 3 | We 'll be married in the Catholic Church , and I 'll teach all our children to be good Catholics . |
| 4 | It 's teaching children to be good conservationists . |
| 5 | Moreover , in both cases the labelling of the decanted medication was inadequate for those treating the children to be sure of the concentration and therefore the dose of drug ingested . |
| 6 | Although the Act does allow for children to be absent from Hearings under the circumstances already referred to , they should still be notified of the Hearing , and an explanation of why it is taking place should be given . |
| 7 | Holt does not want children to be obliged to take on any of these responsibilities and he manages to make his point by concentrating solely on the rights so that he can remark : |
| 8 | I 've always found children to be OK , but I 've never completely worked them out . |
| 9 | The first and most crucial step in training children to be social beings takes place when they develop a willingness to do as they are told . |
| 10 | I , I emphasize , but some of his followers , took the view that anxiety , for example , in children , was pathological , and they , that generation of analysts tried to bring up their children to be free of anxiety , and , and then , you still get this in a lot of popular child psychology today , the idea that anxiety is always bad and always wrong . |
| 11 | I think women have got children to be responsible for and that does make them more responsible and careful drivers |
| 12 | Parents have a wholly understandable desire for their children to be happy , so ( not surprisingly ) signs of discontent , sadness and storm and stress , are not easy for them to bear . |
| 13 | ‘ All I really want is to have a home of my own and for my children to be happy . ’ |
| 14 | Increased life expectancy means that it is now a rare occurrence for children to be orphaned . |
| 15 | But it 's wonderful for the children to be able to grow up in this beautiful place . ’ |
| 16 | The effect of peer recognition should never be underestimated , and as teachers we should find ways for all children to be able to enjoy the rewards of their endeavours . |
| 17 | This teacher afterwards remarked that she could not just ‘ set ’ activities such as problem-solving or project work of this kind and expect the children to be able to manage on their own . |
| 18 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 19 | erm and I would like to think that in spite of all the pressures that you have in schools now with National Curriculum and everything else , there will still be space for children to be able to express emotions . |
| 20 | Divorce is common enough for even young children to be aware of it and to fear you may split up . |
| 21 | The Curriculum Council for Wales ' ’ Curriculum Cymreig ’ makes clear the need for children to be aware of the cultural , historic , social and environmental issues which have , and are , shaping Wales . |
| 22 | If we are aiming to help children to be aware of the relationship between mathematics and society , several approaches are possible . |
| 23 | What a lousy place for children to be stuck in . |
| 24 | They also have a very good message , they teach children to be kind and honest . |
| 25 | Add all this together and you have a formidable coalition of parents — black , Hispanic , Asian as well as the mainly Catholic groups like the Italians and the Irish — who want schools to be orderly , their children to be safe , the teaching to be orthodox and to concentrate on reading , writing and arithmetic . |
| 26 | She tells her children to be careful on the swings , but that 's not unusual . |
| 27 | Stressing the positive approach to social interaction is an important part of teaching children to be sociable . |
| 28 | Apart from teaching the children to be quiet , and to wear slippers and not heavy shoes in the house , you could lay carpet and thick underlay over the floors and up the stairs . |
| 29 | and Elizabeth asked the children to be quiet |
| 30 | Within a comprehensive school it is perfectly possible for children to be ambitious and competitive , for them to submit to a proper discipline , one imposed both by their teachers , and by the rigours of the subject itself that they are studying . |