Example sentences of "[art] parents ' [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 | The departure of a ‘ special ’ child may be particularly problematic because he or she may have invoked part of the parents ' own history , or because the child performed a vital role in the family such as ‘ go-between ’ or communicator . |
18 | The first point is that educating through a language which is not the parents ' own , does not produce a deviant development . |
19 | Once this link is established Mrs Shott is asked to consider a residential placement and the parents ' own anxieties about their family situation and needs are used to justify the proposal being put forward . |
20 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
21 | In most recorded ‘ adoptions ’ , the new fry were smaller than the parents ' own offspring . |
22 | The programme is structured in such a way that on-going evaluation is simple and results can be reflected on from time to time by the Family Development Nurse and Community Mother so that the monthly visit to the family which is the main focus of the programme for achieving goals can be adapted to each family 's level and the issues that are discussed are relevant , nonjudgemental , and supportive of the parents ' own ideas and recognises the parents ' desire to do what is best for their children . |
23 | 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 . |