Example sentences of "[to-vb] children [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And so decisions to exclude children from the National Curriculum must in turn be arbitrary in part .
2 However the legislation specifically forbad the use of vegetation or planters in the roadway that would either obstruct vision or be high enough to hide children from the view of approaching drivers .
3 Women leave , afraid to bear children in a city so close to the reactor .
4 The celibate woman was seen as having been freed from the ‘ curse of Eve ’ , to bear children in sorrow and to be under the domination of the male .
5 There is , of course , room for disagreement about how much independence to grant children at different stages of their development .
6 I have no doubt that the hunting fraternity will continue their campaign by trying to indoctrinate children from any early age through the guise of the Pony Club .
7 A Chance to Dance aims to encourage children of all ethnic groups and social backgrounds .
8 The need here is to encourage children to be precise about what they want to find out in their work .
9 The initiative 's aim is to encourage children in schools , to think about the environment , and involve producing an environmental teaching pack , running an environmental course for teachers , and developing a green software application for us on personal computer in schools .
10 It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons .
11 Go out to supervise children into playground and check with Coach Guide about any absences or misbehaviour on journey home yesterday or to school today .
12 to provide children with the opportunity to master basic skills ( eg catching , throwing , swimming ) and to play team games appropriate to their age and interests .
13 One justification commonly offered is that the schools exist to provide children with a good basic or general education ; the problem is basic to what and general in what sense ?
14 It 's a resource erm that is needed in order to provide children with a whole variety of learning problems with specialized teaching , with specialized education , and we think in the Labour group that it is a tragedy that those needs are not going to be recognised .
15 There were no photographs , posters , record-players , piles of clothing from Oxfam shops , drawings pinned to the wall — nothing much to indicate children at all .
16 But in fact every creative and inventive and imaginative activity ( including that of inventing new tools ) is better done with the help of ‘ technology ’ , and so a failure to familiarize children at school with the use of such technology inhibits their imaginative potential , as well as making them incompetent and virtually unemployable when they leave school .
17 Oxford English provides all the materials needed to set children on the right track .
18 Biannual national vaccination days and house-to-house visits to vaccinate children in high-risk areas have been successful in eliminating wild poliomyelitis infection from Latin America , and have become the cornerstone of the current global eradication strategy .
19 Encouragement to view children through the filtering lens of levels of attainment reached its peak in the School Examinations and Assessment Council 's ( SEAC ) A Guide to Teacher Assessment .
20 We approached it on the basis of er , collecting information on the Children in Need definition which a , er , a paper came before you when the Children 's Act was implemented , and that gives local discretion to authorities to , to define Children in need .
21 A pub recommended by Egon Ronay is now cooking up spam and mash in its kitchen — to feed children at a village school .
22 ‘ There are 47 schools in the area taking part in the project , and we ‘ re hoping to reach children in the nine , ten and eleven years ‘ age brackets , ’ said Nick .
23 Concern for the safety of young children resulted in a massive scheme to evacuate children from the vulnerable cities to safe homes in more isolated country areas .
24 The fundamental question was : who had the right to initiate children into the laws of sex and with what precise forms of knowledge ?
25 Much of the legislation governing public intervention in family life is in fact concerned with laying a duty on public authorities to ‘ diminish the need to receive children into or keep them in care ’ ( Child Care Act 1980 , S. 1 ) , while the terminology of the law emphasises the reception of children into care , rather than the popular phrase ‘ taking them into care ’ .
26 Under part 1 of the 1980 Act , local authorities first have a duty to promote the welfare of children by making available such advice , guidance and assistance as may diminish the need to receive children into care .
27 As the preceding paragraphs have shown , child care is , until the Children Bill becomes law in the early 1990s , based on the Child Care Act 1980 , under which one major duty of the local authorities is to receive children into care and provide them with adequate substitute homes unless or until they can be returned to their natural parents .
28 Under this Act they were given responsibility ‘ to make available such advice , guidance and assistance as may promote the welfare of children by diminishing the need to receive children into or keep them in care ’ .
29 This orthodox hostel was opened in December 1938 to receive children from Dovercourt .
30 The juvenile courts also had powers to place children in care , and the former children 's departments had to receive children in need of care and protection and find them substitute homes .
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