Example sentences of "[prep] children [prep] " in BNC.

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1 and that would look after children for ever
2 In her case it was accepted that many women in their 20s are involved in child birth and looking after children with the consequences that they are out of the employment market .
3 Apart from the short-term respite this offers the families , it provides an opportunity for houseparents ( staff looking after children on a residential basis ) to continue the comprehensive teaching of a full range of social , domestic and academic skills .
4 There will be qualified childminders to look after children on Saturday evening and a special 5-a-side football game is planned .
5 Meanwhile , Walter Sanders expressed indignation at Labour 's scheme to provide nursery schools , not merely because of the cost but because he thought mothers should look after children at that age .
6 ‘ Minders ’ look after children at Nidri , while Porto Heli and Cannigione also have excellent local beaches for young families .
7 I had this job , you see , looking after children at the Zephandra Butolphi Community of Enlightenment .
8 ‘ Minders ’ in Nidri in high season look after children between the ages of 4–13 during the shore week for parents who have booked a yachting course , or six days sailing or windsurfing .
9 The Children 's Bill will make it mandatory for nannies who look after children from several families ( three or more I believe ) to become registered as childminders .
10 From 4 July to 12 September we run ‘ Minders ’ , a child care service in Nidri , which looks after children from 4 to 13 years old who are living ashore with parents ; ideal for parents who want a holiday , especially if they 're sailing .
11 She says : ‘ At the moment , nannies who look after children in their employers ' homes could have a history of the worst child abuse imaginable .
12 Local authorities must comply with the duties and obligations imposed in Part III of the Act when looking after children in care .
13 IF you are a parent , if indeed you look after children in any capacity , Linda Wolfe 's Safe and Sound is a must .
14 She looks after children before school and after school , up to eleven year olds .
15 Creativity and ingenuity are widely distributed and evident in the natural activities of children outside school .
16 In terms of both household size and number of children per family ethnicity seemed more important than class , with 3.6 and 3.7 people in Welsh working class and middle class households respectively , and 6.7 and 7.1 in Bangladeshi working class and middle class households respectively ; Welsh middle and working class families had 1.5 children on average , while Bangladeshi working class averaged 3.4 and middle class 2.1 .
17 Often , there is no fixed number of children per node .
18 If all leaves are at roughly the same depth d , and the number of children per internal node is fixed , say n , then this is 1 + n + n + n + … + n
19 " What was the average number of children per family in 1881 ? " ) .
20 Average numbers of children per family in developing countries have fallen from six in 1960 to four today , thanks to growing use of contraceptives , according to the latest John Hopkins University Population Report .
21 According to statistics soon to be published by the UN , the average number of children per mother in Bangladesh has fallen from 6.7 in 1975 to 4.7 now , and that of Kenya from 8.1 to 6.3 .
22 He started asking questions — and found that at his own school — Ashchurch primary — the cuts could mean the loss of a teacher and an increase in the numbers of children per class .
23 CARE nurse Mary Jane Hammond moves along the lines , wiping the infected eyes of children beyond tears .
24 With a variety of adults exercising control of children during the school day including class teacher , teacher on playground duty and lunch time supervisors it is possible that patterns of repeated bullying are not picked up by adults .
25 In the past there has been considerable dispute between teachers and their employers over the teachers ' role in the collecting of dinner money and the supervision of children during the mid-day break .
26 The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises .
27 These colleges were built as an educational resource , meeting the needs of children during the school day and providing space ( and sometimes staff ) at other times for adult clubs and classes .
28 It is true that much was written about the moral upbringing of children during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but this topic was itself clearly linked with the expectation of death , rather than with the hope of a balanced and integrated life .
29 Basically there 's a decline in the number of children during this period , people under the age of sixteen , by around about eleven percent .
30 Whilst improvements in the material well-being of children during the period under consideration is measurable in the decrease in child mortality rates , and advances in education provision and medical care ( in other words the material evidence of the control and monitoring of children by the state ) , the historical changes which occur in the emotional/psychological category , ‘ the child ’ , are largely unknowable .
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