Example sentences of "their children " in BNC.
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| 1 | Article 42 went on to give an almost supplementary right to the state in providing for a child 's education by acknowledging the right of parents to school their children in their own home should they wish it . |
| 2 | It appears they feared the appointment of secular medical personnel who might educate mothers in family planning and their children in sexual matters . |
| 3 | Grounds for the bishops ' opposition were that only parents and not the state should have the right to provide for the health of their children , that the state had no role to play in the physical education of children and mothers , and that individual privacy would be threatened by public use of their private health records ( Whyte 1980 : 213–14 ) . |
| 4 | It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp . |
| 5 | This prescriptive approach has been repeated as recently as October 1988 , when the director of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools in Northern Ireland said that people who sent their children to integrated schools rather than catholic ones were breaking the law of the church . |
| 6 | Some of its parents had begun sending their children to the less protestant dominated schools within the state system , shortly before the movement was formed . |
| 7 | They felt that it was partly their responsibility to bring up their children in an atmosphere of knowledge and understanding of protestants , as they believed part of the difficulties of life in Ulster were caused by this lack of contact . |
| 8 | At the same time , they were keen to bring up their children as Roman catholics . |
| 9 | The burden of the message was that good catholic parents sent their children to catholic schools . |
| 10 | And all parents need to know something about them in order to help protect their children from danger , now or in the future . |
| 11 | As the horses trotted past , kicking up gravel from the rough road , women in dark-brown shawls picked up their babies and shouted at their children to come inside — as though strangers from the east were liable to spell trouble . |
| 12 | The people had stopped in their tracks , women were making their children stand behind them . |
| 13 | When ill , which was often , Mrs Cohen acted as his nurse , and thus their children were largely left free to do as they liked , or at least as much as their ‘ nanny ’ allowed them . |
| 14 | Young people were afraid , wondering if they would have time to have their children , and became agitated at the racheting-up of international tensions in East and West . |
| 15 | I am lonely yes , but my loneliness is the price I pay in order that the people of the World may look ahead to peace and freedom and to a decent standard of living for their children . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The English molest their children and love their dogs . ’ |
| 17 | The noise gets louder and louder and we wonder if they are beating their children . |
| 18 | Some older people may want to move to obtain more suitable housing or to be nearer their children or brothers or sisters . |
| 19 | However , many older people are not married and do not have children — and a small number outlive their children . |
| 20 | Passengers came onto the platform with their trunks ad bags , their children ad dogs , and got into the carriages . |
| 21 | Fathers who are highly involved with their children at 11 , but who do not punish them , are the best protection against a criminal record in adolescence , the research suggests . |
| 22 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 23 | Yet parents who smack their children are far more common than those who do not . |
| 24 | Within weeks , some parents started taking their children away from the school . |
| 25 | She said more parents were rumoured to be planning to transfer their children . |
| 26 | Labour has to create a state system which is so good that no one will want to send their children anywhere else . ’ |
| 27 | One of their main concerns is that their children or grandchildren are to be placed for adoption with no continuing contact with family members , including brothers and sisters . |
| 28 | None of their children , nor any of their ancestors , nor any parts of themselves , shall be hidden from them . ’ |
| 29 | Lady Julie observes , as Darcy has been observing with increasing awe , the extraordinarily civilised behaviour of the Eritreans ; their exemplary treatment of prisoners ( 'We will insult you with our compassion' ) ; their well-organised aid programmes ; their balanced egalitarianism and their passion for educating their children even under the most appallingly adverse conditions . |
| 30 | With that emphasis , Labour could hope to appeal strongly to a wide spectrum of the middle classes , from parents who are desperately worried about their children 's schooling to commuters fed up with the run-down public transport services and clogged roads . |