Example sentences of "expect [adj] children [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |
| 2 | Furthermore they are exceptionally ambitious in the language , skill and concepts they expect young children to acquire . |
| 3 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 4 | He would expect older children to master basic harmony — ‘ grammar and syntax , we can not communicate sensibly without . |
| 5 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 6 | Women born in 1935–9 with ‘ non-manual ’ fathers expected 2.10 children compared to 2.52 for women with ‘ manual ’ fathers . |