Example sentences of "[art] parents [unc] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The child who refuses food Observation of meal-time will demonstrate the parents ' over-concerned reactions .
2 However , this association may be due not so much to the parents ' socio-economic situation but , since most women in the childbearing ages were economically active at that time in Hungary , as to the occupational conditions of the mothers .
3 Because these were predominantly part-time units the parents ' close proximity was very useful in assisting the wives in their daily farm tasks .
4 An American clinical study ( Anderson and White , 1986 ) also suggests that problems in step families are more likely to relate to parenting issues between adults and children than to the parents ' marital relationship .
5 In a shared tank the parents ' real problems begin when the fry are free-swimming , as they are easy prey for other fish .
6 The parents ' impassioned pleas that the best places of safety for their children were with their families was disregarded .
7 It is expected to be heard on July 6 when the parents ' renewed application for a review is scheduled .
8 Whether or not it is correct , it quite clearly differs from the parents ' explicit account of their perception of how the decision has been reached and the implications it will have for George .
9 This appeal does not emanate from the rational and utilitarian purposes parents may satisfy through reading : rather , the child responds to the parents ' emotional absorption in reading .
10 Health visitors and family doctors can help parents anticipate areas of difficulty by providing literature about different stages and issues in feeding young children as well as discussing the parents ' individual concerns and worries ( Finney 1986 ) .
11 My sister Pat , aged thirteen was in theory being educated at home according to a syllabus devised by the Parents ' National Educational Union , and which worked on a postal basis in much the same way as the Open University does today .
12 It became the Parents ' National Education Union in 1892 as branches developed in several cities .
13 Butler and Stokes write , " Partisanship over the individual 's lifetime has some of the quality of a photographic reproduction that deteriorates with time : it is a fairly sharp copy of the parents ' original at the beginning of political awareness , but over the years it becomes somewhat blurred , although remaining easily recognizable . "
14 These ideas became the basis for the Parents ' Educational Union , which was established in 1887 in Bradford .
15 Based on extensive research , it concluded that parents ' attitudes to education were of supreme importance in influencing children 's educational success — more so than the parents ' educational or occupational status , than material circumstances at home , and than schools themselves .
16 Mother , in other words , is thought to be always the same mother , parental influences are regarded as invariable throughout childhood , and an assessment of the parents ' psychological characteristics at one point is thought sufficient to typecast them for good .
17 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 .
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