Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] children 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life in New Zealand was hard for the original settlers , but not quite as hard for Bruce and Jim 's generation , and it looked as if it might be a veritable paradise for the children 's . |
| 2 | A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital . |
| 3 | ‘ It may well be that the factors which influenced the sheriff are strongly mitigating and should be given proper consideration by the children 's hearing when they come to consider the future arrangements for L on the footing that the grounds of referral are now held to be established . ’ |
| 4 | This showed that , on average , children adopted by high-earning families had an IQ 12 points higher than similar children adopted by low-earning families — whatever the social class of the children 's natural parents . |
| 5 | Now their eldest daughter has been told to leave too , but her supporters believe the decision is a clear breach of the children 's wardship order . |
| 6 | Now their eldest daughter has been told to leave too , but her supporters believe the decision is a clear breach of the children 's wardship order . |
| 7 | Then there was the noticeable change in the children 's health . |
| 8 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
| 9 | The entire cast , in costume and make-up , sets off in a vintage bus at 10 a.m. on the traditional annual pilgrimage to the children 's hospital . |
| 10 | The Government has been criticised for its complacent attitude to the protection of children and young people at work in a joint report by the Children 's Rights Development Unit in Scotland and the Scottish Low Pay Unit . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I understand that a local resident , a nurse , found a packet of dangerous drugs on the playing field near the children 's swings . |
| 13 | Whether you keep yourself going ( like the little engine in the children 's story ) by saying ‘ I can do it , I can do it ’ or whether you learn to rehearse coming events in your mind to dispel your anxieties , you can help your confidence to grow . |
| 14 | Alfriston is a very pretty village with a children 's zoo . |
| 15 | His request was not complied with , and the Hearing was not convened on the first lawful day after the children 's removal . |
| 16 | EVERY time that jaunty music to the children 's television series Captain Pugwash is broadcast , Johnny Pearson doubtless allows himself a smile . |
| 17 | But there 's a big difference in my view between the sort of regular abuse and assaults on staff in a Casualty Department and somebody walking into what should have been a locked ward on a children 's unit in a hospital at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 18 | The pension has a large garden with a children 's play area . |
| 19 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 20 | Staff and parents need to be strongly motivated to seek an integrated placement in a children 's day centre or nursery school . |
| 21 | I saw Michael on a regular basis in the children 's home to which he returned . |
| 22 | Given the general background of the Bill 's legislative history , and its late application to the children 's hearings system , it is hardly surprising that there is an apparent , though fundamental , ambiguity in its provisions in relation to children 's hearings . |
| 23 | Aimee Welsh , nine , of Weaverham Road , Norton , suffers from cystic fibrosis and is a regular patient in the children 's ward at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | If on close inspection , educators can begin to understand the great importance of these supposed ‘ gestures ’ in portraying the syntax and semantics of sign language communication , then a more effective view of the children 's needs in language will emerge . |
| 25 | The passive role of the black family in the children 's sport jars with the discordance of a cracked bell when compared to the part played by the white family , usually a source of encouragement from which affirmative , strengthening and , when necessary , consoling influences come . |
| 26 | They waited in a dignified and orderly manner outside the Children 's Panel offices . |
| 27 | Residential educational activity weeks in the Summer term of P6 and P7 are an important part of the children 's education . |
| 28 | Orkney Islands Council Social Work Department refused to implement the independent decision of the Children 's Panel , and blamed the Reporter for allowing them to reach it . |
| 29 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |
| 30 | The very essence of the children 's hearing system is that a hearing , once it has jurisdiction in respect of a child , is empowered to examine the child 's entire social background in arriving at a decision as to disposal in the child 's best interests . |