Example sentences of "[prep] the parent [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children can compete for the parent 's favour and help , which obscures the real cause of the argument . |
| 2 | For information on the Government 's plans , send for The Parent 's Charter , Freepost ( BS528/81 ) , Bristol BS3 3YY ( 0800- 444242 ) . |
| 3 | In such a situation it is possible for the parent 's self control to snap and in a moment of aberration he may strike the child in a manner that is instantly regretted and most unlikely ever to be repeated . ’ |
| 4 | As for the parent TE is leaving behind , Tandy is expected to show solid profits in 1993 , John Roach , chairman and chief executive said . |
| 5 | Since there is evidence that at least some quarrels are attempts to attract attention or are bids for the parents ' favour , make it clear from the outset that while you are not interested in hearing the details of arguments , or the telling of tales , you will not tolerate any hitting . |
| 6 | He and Tasker were chosen by Bonington to be members of the 1982 British Everest Expedition , and shortly before he left Leysin he wrote for the Parents ' Association Newsletter an account of his schooldays , affectionately remembered : |
| 7 | These ideas became the basis for the Parents ' Educational Union , which was established in 1887 in Bradford . |
| 8 | So parents actually welcomed the possibility of a large family : an extra pair of hands could soon pay for itself by working in the fields as well as ensuring security for the parents ' old age . |
| 9 | yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting . |
| 10 | and among they put it down as the parents er ca n't control her . |
| 11 | In mitochondria , where a secondary set of genes exists , war between the parents ' contributions resulted . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah well , ’ said Septimus Coffin , on the Monday after the Parents ' Evening , ‘ it 's four o'clock . |
| 13 | For the third period , that after the parents ' death or incapacity , I do accept the reasonableness of employing a nursing agency and therefore on this occasion I do accept Mr figure per year of sixty five thousand five hundred and thirty seven pounds and ninety six pence . |
| 14 | Here it is assumed that the child 's right to education is a correlative of the parent 's duty to send the child to school . |
| 15 | Children soon take advantage of this inconsistency and the ensuing reward not only negates any potential influence of the punishment ( misbehaviour is likely to increase rather than decrease ) but debases the currency of the parent 's words and deeds . |
| 16 | Once an argument is in progression the child may feel that there is an increased likelihood of the parent 's giving in . |
| 17 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 18 | By conferring the status of unquestionable truth on some aspects of the parent 's relation to the infant , she narrows the domain within which the social can have effects . |
| 19 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 20 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG limped in with its first half figures two days after its parent reported , complaining that falling computer prices would lead to a a fall in turnover of around $635m — that 's one billion marks — in the business year to September 30 : the company belatedly responded to Reuter 's inquiries after the announcement of the parent 's figures by saying that Nixdorf first half sales fell 9% to $3,555m and that orders fell 5% to $3,620m ; it would not forecast the group 's earnings but pointed to earlier company predictions of a slight improvement this year last year 's $326m loss . |
| 21 | However , I have already referred to the views of Doctor David of the quality of the parent 's care while the patient was in Hinchinbrook . |
| 22 | One of the other points about it is that it will erm er , in in the minds of the parents the they will see this one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , ten er being used , poor , satisfactory , excellent and it will get them into the idea of what these levels |
| 23 | The gist of the parents ' complaints is that children were allowed too much freedom and that there was too little formal instruction in the three Rs . |
| 24 | In one case , noted earlier , an order was made when a child from a good home was kept away from school because of the parents ' opposition to comprehensive schools . |
| 25 | Part of the parents ' case had rested on the following argument : within the school which the child attended a decision had been taken to include her in a remedial class ; thus , the special educational provision that should be made for her had already been determined ; so a statement ( under section 7(1) of the Act ) should follow . |
| 26 | Other forms of mental handicap may be attributed to genetic factors , where the fusion of the parents ' genes creates an irregularity in the chromosomal mix . |
| 27 | The video would show activities undertaken during a typical school day , including lunch times and break times , the routines for meeting children at the end of the day , introduce the staff and the chair of governors and the chair of the parents ' association . |
| 28 | Normally at least one parent remained in the home , or if not , close by ; and in many cases aunts of the parents ' generation were involved in caring . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr O'Malley of the Parents ' Association . |
| 30 | Mr O'Malley , of the Parents ' Association , having arrived to see what they had got for their money , stood with the rest of the interested parties , Mr Sylvester and Mrs Bean and Mr and Mrs Singh and quite a lot of the Sports Committee . |