Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] children 's [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It demonstrates that there is a case for arguing that the child care system should no longer reinforce inequities but become a means of redressing them , and like improved health should see education as a proper means of laying foundations for the children 's futures .
2 The writer assessed press reports , criticized the lack of western coverage , and likened the Red Guards to the children 's crusades of medieval Europe .
3 There was little planning by field social workers for the children 's futures .
4 's classroom is the village community centre , which is also used to provide literacy and health care classes for the children 's mothers .
5 And when you sat , trembling forgetfully , on one of the benches in the frosted gardens , with the grass like white hair standing on end , you felt you could hear the ghosts of the children 's cries and shouts — for here they must surely have played in their packs .
6 The current project will involve a detailed audit of the data held on magnetic tapes collected during the first ten years of the children 's lives .
7 Indeed , the team was so anxious to give recognition at last to the importance of the content of any particular drama , that it seems almost to be reinforcing the dualistic assumption that drama is about attitudes or ideas in the children 's heads to be explored and then expressed through the medium .
8 Chrissy Allott , Catherine Snelling and Nick Spokes of Fullwell Cross Library in Ilford , Essex , have written to me in response to Brough Girling 's recent call for suggestions as to what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth .
9 I was keeping a glass of chablis company the other day with Jonathan Hayden and Fiona Brownlee from Pavilion Books , and we got talking about what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth .
10 It is unwise for mothers to be too ideologically sound in matter of diet — it makes it so easy for rivals to the children 's hearts to worm their way therein , and win .
11 Tertiary prevention can be illustrated by the work of professionals in the children 's departments in the fifties and sixties , who increasingly intervened in family situations before the point of a child 's admission to care ( Donnison , 1975 ) .
12 So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ?
13 She walked quickly along the landing to the bathroom , knocking on the doors to the children 's rooms as she went .
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