Example sentences of "[prep] children [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is plain that staying home and looking after children is culturally and economically undervalued by our society . |
| 2 | Looking after children is certainly not a joint commitment — you 're more likely to garden together than share responsibilities for the children ! |
| 3 | can sail into a beautiful old age with enthusiasm for hobbies , taking up new interests of all sorts and I 've taken up skiing after the age of fifty and I 'm , I feel I 'm getting on well with it and this fresh air and and you know , getting out and finding who you really are after , you know , looking after children is is a wonderful thing ! |
| 4 | ‘ … and , in any case , cooking and looking after children is strictly women 's work , ’ he told her flatly . |
| 5 | ‘ Protecting the physical and mental development of children is the most important of all investments in the social and economic development of our societies . ’ |
| 6 | The care of children is not seen to be the proper business of the state , given the emphasis placed on individual freedoms and parental rights and duties . |
| 7 | The distribution of legal responsibility for the education of children is such that parents have , in effect , a duty to send their children to school , and the state has a duty to educate them when they get there . |
| 8 | The selection criteria of children is laid down by the government department appropriate to education and health . |
| 9 | Endeavours to explain to a child the reasons for the restraints put upon him , may appear to be setting too much store on his intelligence , but this will not necessarily be so , for there is much evidence that adult training of children is very often obstructive rather than progressive . |
| 10 | The gentlest way of doing this is to use the effect of the deprivation of something desired , and where the training of children is concerned , that something need be nothing other than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love . |
| 11 | In short , the loss of children is often the major adjustment of middle age for women , equivalent in its impact to the loss of employment for men . |
| 12 | One of the teachers who comes regularly with groups of children is a well-dressing expert from Eyam in Derbyshire , and first dressed a well at the farm in 1980 . |
| 13 | No one , either in Orkney or beyond , denies that child abuse exists ; some say that the sexual abuse of children is rife in today 's society . |
| 14 | Although it was not always so , the role of the state in the protection of children is now firmly established . |
| 15 | The technical process by which items are selected and tried out on a large group of children is referred to as the process of standardisation and the group of children is referred to as the standardisation sample . |
| 16 | The technical process by which items are selected and tried out on a large group of children is referred to as the process of standardisation and the group of children is referred to as the standardisation sample . |
| 17 | What age group of children is covered ? |
| 18 | The education of children is of major concern to expatriates and briefing courses should outline alternatives and warn about potential problems . |
| 19 | Teachers and parents have come to realise that the education of children is a joint responsibility , particularly as children are at school for such a small proportion of their waking lives . |
| 20 | The raising of children is an intensely private family matter which is nevertheless the subject of equally intensive public debate and concern . |
| 21 | Few dispute that the health of children is primarily the responsibility of the parents , and much intervention is designed to educate parents in the physical care of their children . |
| 22 | The point is also that the raising of children is work . |
| 23 | Like Holt , Harris believes that the so-called incompetence of children is an adult invention imposed on children for adults ' convenience . |
| 24 | The involvement of children is of particular importance . |
| 25 | ‘ Restricting the liberty of children is a serious step which must be taken only when there is no genuine alternative which would be appropriate . |
| 26 | I mean , I suppose actually the conventional two parent family with er whatever th the current er er average proportion of children is . |
| 27 | The main legislation relating to the care of children is the consolidating Child Care Act of 1980 , the Children Acts of 1948 and 1975 and the Children and Young persons Acts of 1933 , 1963 and 1969 . |
| 28 | The day and domiciliary services of the local authority can be brought to bear if relevant — day care of small children can help enormously in many family problems where the welfare of children is at risk . |
| 29 | Even in these recession-ridden times , it is true that in most households , expenditure on the needs of children is protected to a greater degree than those of adults , and , in most cases , right across the social spectrum , books command a positive attitude from parents , where they ; are seen as linking directly with a future passport for career success . |
| 30 | The fact that the number of children is itself a random variable introduces a further stochastic element into the wealth — income generating process . |