Example sentences of "[prep] [art] children [unc] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to provide for the children 's cognitive development , yet do not wish to assess them by something they are not fully competent in : the English language . |
| 2 | Suggestions for the children 's own work , as well as the simple ones of drawing , model-making , painting , writing and drama , included : |
| 3 | But what about the children 's primary need , that of contact with their families ? |
| 4 | The chapter indicates how , in spite of the fact that medical reports are a statutory requirement for children entering care , no systematic collation of information takes place , and little is known about the children 's physical health . |
| 5 | Her initiatives led to the creation in 1930 of the Townswomen 's Guilds ; the founding , with Sir Ernest Simon ( later first Baron Simon of Wythenshawe , q.v. ) , of the Association for Education in Citizenship , 1934 ; and the launching of the Children 's Minimum Committee , 1936 , to campaign for better standards of care and nutrition . |
| 6 | They want to replace multiple-choice tests with ‘ portfolio tests ’ ( in which external examiners mark a file of the children 's best work ) and , horror of horrors , timed essays . |
| 7 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ The 1933 Children and Young Persons Act does not define an age when children are competent to give evidence , but case law has tended to set a figure of around seven or eight . |
| 8 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ Local authorities have to accept that if they 've made every effort to keep children at home with the non-abusing parent and it does n't work , they may have to be taken into care . ’ |
| 9 | The 1985 study reports no examples of parents teaching their children at home under the guidance of a teacher ; no activity packs for use at the time of the children 's first admission to school ; no parents helping in the classroom with music , and no home-school liaison assistants or secondary/junior/infant liaison teachers . |
| 10 | At the police station he was confronted by one of the children 's angry mother . |
| 11 | There does seem to be a development from apparently aimless handling towards quite deliberate modelling , and the teacher will observe this in the development of the children 's free play . |
| 12 | Valerie Emblen describes how important a knowledge of the children 's mathematical background is when planning the mathematics curriculum for Bangladeshi children in London . |
| 13 | to give examples of the children 's own work as cumulative examples of achievements |
| 14 | For instance , first-school classrooms with colourful montages of the children 's own work and collections of objects that are interesting to touch and fun to look at provide a stimulating background for pupils whether they have defective vision or not . |
| 15 | These orthographic conventions should be taught in the context of the children 's own writing and should always be related to their function of making the writer 's meaning clear to the reader . |
| 16 | In the absence of any objective index of the children 's true ability we can not know the extent to which the teachers ' ratings were themselves unduly influenced by the observed behaviour . |
| 17 | Then with energy to spare you proceeded to participate in the ‘ Measured Medau Mile ’ to raise funds not only for the Society but also , through the British Kidney Patient Association , for a Children 's Renal Unit at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 18 | Rhos-on-Sea where the new breakwater forms its own natural harbour , has a continental atmosphere , and many amenities , such as a Children 's paddling pool and par putting . |
| 19 | The sequence in Figure 1 begins with the children 's boisterous behaviour . |
| 20 | The popular TV star , who first shot to fame with the children 's favourite Crackerjack , has even been swapping jokes with his doctors . |
| 21 | There were subsequent waves of evacuation — during the blitz of late 1940 , via the Children 's Overseas Reception Scheme of the same year ( which sent children principally to Canada ) , and in 1944 when the V1 and V2 rockets arrived — and , of course , roughly 2 million people evacuated themselves by private arrangement in the first months of the war . |
| 22 | To assume that a study of Islamic pattern will have particular meaning for all Moslem children is imposing an idealised view of others ' cultures , rather than starting from the children 's real community . |
| 23 | In the latter case , it is considerably cheaper to board children with foster parents , and social workers would argue that in practice this is also often in the children 's best interest . |
| 24 | Family placements offered a context for growing up in care that was consistent with their belief in the children 's psychological need to belong to families . |
| 25 | The simplest way of starting is by intervening ( sometimes very briefly ) in play corner activities , taking on a role yourself in the children 's own play . |
| 26 | It may appear that putting this strategy into practice will take more time than the conventional practice of writing words in the children 's own spelling books . |
| 27 | Gaby went to work in New York , Rose emigrated to Australia , taking Steve ( who had a spell in a Children 's Psychiatric Unit as a kind of punishment for killing Charley and who knew what else ) with her . |
| 28 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
| 29 | Moving on , I am sorry we need to , to nineteen forty five which saw Save The Children 's first involvement with pre-school playgroups here in the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | When less than a year later she topped the bill with Jason at a Children 's Royal Variety show at the Dominion Theatre she was not about to make the same error of judgement . |