Example sentences of "parents have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should parents have a right to determine how schools were run ? |
| 2 | The Italian was soon traced , as his parents had a boarding house in the town . |
| 3 | On examining the pattern of soiling it was possible to see a correlation between the times the parents had a build-up of tension about a difference of opinion and the times David began to retain his faeces . |
| 4 | Both students and parents had a go at this . |
| 5 | My parents had a point , too . |
| 6 | There was a time when parents had a repertoire of such material ‘ in their heads ’ , but the oral handing down seems to have failed for many people . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was a boy my parents had a bookshop like this in Plymouth . |
| 8 | Table II contrasts the main causes of death for children whose parents are classified as unoccupied with those whose parents had an occupation . |
| 9 | Suddenly , parents had an alternative to Baron 's Court when they sought help and sponsorship for would-be players . |
| 10 | New help for the children whose parents have a drink problem . |
| 11 | Parents have a go ! |
| 12 | The law , he said , ‘ should reinforce the principle that parents have a responsibility for the actions of their children . ’ |
| 13 | This is commendable in districts where parents have a contribution to make . |
| 14 | Moreover , at the heart of the ‘ parents ' charter ’ is the appeals system , to which parents have a right ( under section 7 of the Act ) to refer their claim . |
| 15 | Parents have a right to appeal to the Secretary of State when the LEA has decided , following the assessment , that it is not required to determine the special educational provision that should be made . |
| 16 | and interested parents have a right to know what this initiative actually means . |
| 17 | More generally the evidence of the study of middle-class kinship by Firth , Hubert and Forge indicates that most people acknowledge that parents have a right to make demands upon their adult children , and that most children will do their best to meet those demands ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , pp. 406–7 ) . |
| 18 | I certainly assure the right hon. Gentleman that there is no sense in which the Government want positively to discriminate in favour of one type of schooling over others , because parents have a right to choose . |
| 19 | erm not only that , but erm whereas in the past it 's tended to be at the prerogative of the education people , as it were , the teachers and the heads and the educational psychologists , to make the initial moves in categorization or making a statement , now the parents have a right to ask for an assessment , so perhaps in your case to your question it would have been yes , you could have in fact have erm initiated the moves . |
| 20 | His parents have a lot to answer for . |
| 21 | The parents have a place in the car and should be consulted on the destination and route . |
| 22 | When the service is based on some project that the children have undertaken parents have an opportunity to appreciate their children 's work in context . |