Example sentences of "in children [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In Children 's Drawings ( Penguin , £6.99 ) , she suggests that children become dissatisfied with their work , often between the ages of eight and ten , when they ca n't achieve visual realism . |
| 32 | Specialises in children 's clothes . |
| 33 | Dr Einon , an expert in children 's play , put James through a series of tests to probe his IQ , memory and creativity before and after four hours of playing Super Adventure Island , in which Master Higgins battles to rescue Jeanie Jungle from the wizard Dark Cloak . |
| 34 | The 200-page report of the Warner Inquiry , set up after Beck 's conviction , is expected to prompt an immediate clampdown on the present recruitment procedure used for care workers in children 's homes . |
| 35 | Phillip Hodson is a psychotherapist with special interests in children 's problems . |
| 36 | But this will need constant nurturing if it is to develop into an appreciation of the richness of poetry , where words are ‘ alive with a plurality of meanings from their contexts , their associations and their sensory qualities ; they are alive with what Ted Hughes calls ‘ the goblin in a word'' ’ ( this quotation is from Michael Benton 's essay on ‘ The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning ’ , from the NATE book Lessons in English Teaching and Learning [ 1988 ] ) ( p. 148 ) . |
| 37 | As Michael Benton puts it in The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning : ‘ The development of a methodology that is based upon informed concepts of reading and response rather than upon conventional , narrowly-conceived ideas of comprehension and criticism is now the priority ’ ( p. 150 ) . |
| 38 | Speaking on Radio 4 's World This Weekend he added : ‘ Their action would also call into doubt in children 's minds just what authority figures are there for . ’ |
| 39 | Her ability to capture the humour which is too often missing in children 's material has made her a firm favourite with children 's book publishers alike . |
| 40 | At the beginning of Chapter 1 it was suggested that linguists and psycholinguists interested in children 's language have addressed two major questions . |
| 41 | Research has also raised doubts about the role of imitation in children 's learning of language . |
| 42 | The maxim that ‘ negative attention is better than no attention at all ’ seems to be an important governing factor in children 's behaviour . |
| 43 | If this is the aim of current policy , as it is of this series of unit texts , we have to begin by examining ways in which schools and school policies can themselves be a major element in children 's difficulties . |
| 44 | More controversial than Woody Allen on a shopping spree in children 's world . |
| 45 | An extreme example of parental involvement in children 's sports is the phenomenon which Dorcas Susan Butt calls the ‘ sports parent ’ , the parent ‘ who pushes the child onward in the sport … sometimes encourages the youngster and sometimes criticizes , and will often go to any degree to further the child 's interests … the parent 's main interest is to maximize the performance and benefits of his or her own child ’ ( 1976 , p. 120 ) . |
| 46 | Since this decision relates , in English , to what has come to be accepted as a key element in children 's potential to achieve at school , that is their linguistic competence , the English teacher has a heavier responsibility when he [ or she ] attempts to resolve it than staff concerned with other parts of the curriculum . |
| 47 | The place of talk is equally important in children 's introduction to mathematics . |
| 48 | In the section devoted to primary education the place of skills was emphasised , as well as the vital part which the teacher plays in children 's conceptual development . |
| 49 | It calculated that the difference between a good school and a bad one accounts for about 20% of the variation in children 's progress ( between the ages of seven and 11 ) in reading , writing and mathematics . |
| 50 | Contrary to some of the conclusions drawn from social scientific research suggesting that it is primarily home or family backgrounds that determines the level of educational performance , Edmonds proceeds to identify those characteristics of effective schools delivering marked improvements in children 's educational achievements . |
| 51 | The picture around the country for local authorities is one of reduction in children 's services . ’ |
| 52 | The 20-page revised document , Guidance on Possible Forms of Control in Children 's Residential Care , describes forms of permissible restraint , including holding a child 's arm or holding the child against a wall , but says such force should never be used punitively and should reflect the needs of individual situations . |
| 53 | Young people in care in North Wales are being deterred from making complaints about abuse because of an alleged lack of progress in investigating allegations of widespread physical and sexual abuse in children 's homes in the 1970s and 1980s , it has been claimed . |
| 54 | But we know children can be at risk from even well-qualified professionals appointed to care for them ( not least in children 's homes to which they have been sent for their own welfare and safety ) , or from parents not burdened by a ‘ learning difficulty ’ label ( witness the recent ‘ home alone ’ cases here and in the United States ) . |
| 55 | What we are doing in care management is not greatly different from what we do in children 's services — working with limited resources and with other agencies , ’ says Mills . |
| 56 | Some individual placements were being made in children 's day centres . |
| 57 | These included : developing a respite care service , improving mobility access in children 's residential units , providing disability awareness training , developing a coordinated assessment and review system for all children arid developing services for young adults . |
| 58 | It contained a plan to halve the number of places in children 's day centres from 1989 . |
| 59 | There are several black children who have grown up in children 's homes with purely white staff , and others who have been placed with white families who are isolated geographically and have no contact with black people ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 134 ) . |
| 60 | The composition by age of children in children 's homes had always included some adolescents but they had never been together in such large numbers before . |