Example sentences of "[adv] as children " in BNC.
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| 1 | She absorbed her parents ' convictions , says Rosa , much as children ‘ learn to eat with a knife and fork ’ . |
| 2 | Whatever the government , the NHS has always been seen as underfunded and that is unlikely to change so long as children and old people wait months for operations . |
| 3 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 4 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 5 | especially as children are today , born today |
| 6 | She was very attached to her brother Joshua Cristall [ q.v. ] , who later became an eminent water-colourist : ‘ They studied together as children , and hand in hand did they daily walk to London for their schooling when the family lived at Rotherhithe ’ ( J. L. Roget ) . |
| 7 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |
| 8 | He was running , just as children of that age do , almost as if he was chasing the shadows across the moor . |
| 9 | Just as children are very familiar with drama itself through the dramatic fictions that they see enacted on television and on film , so too they have encountered the idea of still images in other contexts : their own family snapshots , freeze frame on the video recorder , sculptures , waxworks and comic strips . |
| 10 | For instance , if father has lost his job , whispered conversations about money worries , which break off as soon as children come near , may give them the idea that a terrible disaster is about to strike , or even that they are too insignificant to be taken into their parents ' confidence . |
| 11 | As soon as children start to feel upset about food their appetite disappears and the process of eating becomes much more difficult . |
| 12 | Such points miss the remarks Freud makes about the need for females to have more freedom to express and explore their sexuality , both as children and as young adults . |
| 13 | Its relation to meaning is fundamental too , since observation sentences are the ones we are in a position to learn to understand first , both as children and as field linguists … |
| 14 | The answer lies in a sentence quoted above : ‘ observation sentences are the ones we are in a position to learn to understand first , both as children and as field linguists ’ . |
| 15 | As far as children with special educational needs are concerned , there are for me two main worries . |
| 16 | Young people So far as children and young people are concerned , it is well recognized in historical work on the nineteenth century that the growth of state intervention to control the employment of children , and to establish and expand compulsory education , had the effect of altering the balance of obligations between parents and children . |
| 17 | What she says and what she does are two different things as far as children go . |
| 18 | er and that agreement is to look after the spouse , there is never and there has never been in our law , and there is n't now , a clean break as far as children are concerned . |
| 19 | there is no clean break as far as children are concerned . |
| 20 | There are three issues associated with institutional aims and objectives : ( i ) the extent to which they are aims and objectives rather than social platitudes and/or moral aspirations ; ( ii ) the extent to which objectives are differentiated from aims and are capable of implementation ; and ( iii ) the extent to which they refer to teaching and non-teaching staff as well as children . |
| 21 | Packed into The Market Place would be three roundabouts , three switchbacks , a helter-skelter , chair-o-planes and a cake walk as well as children 's roundabouts , stalls and sideshows . |
| 22 | The fact that none of the elements are mutually exclusive can also be viewed as a strength , for this reinforces the important point that ideals , as well as children , do not fit neatly into narrowly defined and constructed categories . |
| 23 | Its high technology appeals to parents as well as children , and it was relatively cheap to build . |
| 24 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that their middle-class respondents almost always named grandchildren as well as children as being part of their close family . |
| 25 | Thus , in this view parents as well as children tend to appear as victims and , in particular , working-class parents are seen as vulnerable and powerless vis-à-vis statutory agencies . |
| 26 | It was far out of the reach of grown-ups as well as children , except that Jasper did not really think anything was out of his reach . |
| 27 | The wider family protects husband and wife , as well as children , from the stresses and strains of today 's tiny nuclear family , where all contact with uncles , aunts , cousins and even grandparents is limited to a weekly long-distance phone-call . |
| 28 | Women 's caring responsibilities frequently include the welfare of male partners as well as children . |
| 29 | Perhaps familiarity breeds contempt — among teachers as well as children . |
| 30 | ‘ As well as children are when their mother fails to come home from a party because she 's shacked up with some gorilla in a cheap hotel . |