Example sentences of "parents [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must be one of the greatest afflictions parents or a marriage partner may be called upon to endure . |
| 2 | A second group are the adopters who are prepared to adopt a child of two black parents or a child of one white and one black parent , and to accept the child as he or she is , recognising the difference in racial and cultural origin . |
| 3 | The NCCED and the other organisations listed on pages 145–7 offer support and counselling for a woman who has spent the whole of her life caring for parents or a relative who has died . |
| 4 | One US company says employees should ask themselves : Would you do or say this in front of your spouse , parents or a colleague of the same sex ? |
| 5 | If you know someone who has AIDS , or if you are worried or have questions about the illness , try to find someone you can trust to talk to about it — maybe your parents or a teacher or some other adult you feel close to . |
| 6 | Some sociologists claim that an individual 's class position is largely achieved ; it results from their personal qualities and abilities and the use they make of them rather than ascribed characteristics such as the status of their parents or the colour of their skin . |
| 7 | The family may determine the time of marriage , and the husband , his parents or the wife 's parents or another person may make decisions that dictate the number and spacing of births . |
| 8 | The cost of training is generally the responsibility of parents or the state and not that of the trainees themselves . |
| 9 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |
| 10 | But none have forgotten the pain of being driven from their parents nor the welcome and love they were given at Waddesdon as a small compensation for that loss . |
| 11 | Housing authorities have a general duty to house ‘ vulnerable ’ people but a recent survey by the National Children 's Home found that only 50 per cent of authorities would classify as vulnerable a young homeless person with no parents and no support . |
| 12 | The girls then settle to tell a story : of a lady called Ai nt Baby , born with no parents and no name , and raised by her own efforts to local prominence as a midwife ; of Ai nt Baby 's daughter Candy , product of a night of casual lust with a passing drifter , and of Candy 's haphazard rise to an academic doctorate at a university in the liberal north . |
| 13 | TWO small children watched terrified as their wealthy parents and a gran were handcuffed and manhandled by a gang of masked raiders . |
| 14 | Wirral Social Services Department temporarily placed her with foster parents and a case conference will take place this morning . |
| 15 | Proud parents and a mass of other churchgoers came in their wake . |
| 16 | Inquiry call : Ann Alexander , above , with parents and a relative , from left , Stephen Gibson , Jo and Christopher Taylor and Margaret Hardwick |
| 17 | So Gittel , who had well-intentioned parents and a place in the world , got a husband thought capable of putting food in her mouth and babies in her belly . |
| 18 | For some women there are both parents and a partner to care for , making their day revolve around caring . |
| 19 | Practical advice for parents is outlined but there is a high treatment failure rate : the therapeutic relationship may be very important in gaining full co-operation from the parents and a family approach to treatment is often indicated . |
| 20 | The trip has an excellent reputation and includes a present from Santa , a hot punch for parents and a ride in a beautifully restored Steam Train ! |
| 21 | Hence if one trend in modern culture corresponds to hatred of the parents and a desire to be rid of them and their authority , another equally insistent one demands their protection , their love , their provision of all that one can not provide for oneself — in short , welfare . |
| 22 | Do the parents and the school share the same expectations about discipline , teaching methods and curriculum content ? |
| 23 | There is flexibility in the system and , rather than a dogmatic attitude and a refusal to change , there is co-operation between parents and the school . |
| 24 | He was unaware that a harassed Mr Dixon , caught between Hank , his parents and the school authorities , had disclaimed any knowledge of Hank 's whereabouts , except to say , when asked by the school secretary , that probably Hank had the flu — there was a lot of it about . |
| 25 | Indeed , 55% of survey respondents stated that the main purpose of their board should be to improve communication between parents and the school . |
| 26 | The relations between teachers and the parents and the school governs and the Local Education Authority . |
| 27 | Instead its concepts — like sharing responsibility between parents and the state , reaching agreements and partnerships — have a surprisingly communitarian or even collectivist ring about them . |
| 28 | But a more complete understanding of the operation of and limits to parental rights in education requires a wider examination , of how the law deals with other areas where the interests of children , parents and the state are all in particularly sharp focus . |
| 29 | Taking on part-time jobs could help pay their way without relying totally on parents and the state for financial support . |
| 30 | These issues were in dispute in long-running legal actions for negligence between parents and the drug manufacturers , and might ultimately have been tried by a judge . |