Example sentences of "parents ' [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 We were warned not to dress in our parents ' clothes and he threatened Frankie with his belt , but nothing more was said about it .
2 They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent .
3 The print , called ‘ Suspense ’ , hung over my parents ' bed and from a very early age I wished that I could have a dog like that — have a look at the picture of my Nip on page 110 .
4 Pudding can be given once the child has complied with the parents ' wishes and eaten the small portion of main course first .
5 This kind of cop-out is also likely to undermine the parents ' credibility and the trust put in them .
6 Because parental involvement is such a key feature , teachers also need to know about parents ' rights and responsibilities under the legislation , in addition to those of the school and LEA .
7 The parents charter will enhance parental choice and strengthen parents ' rights and it will make far more information available to help parents to exercise those rights .
8 The governor 's thing is coming about quite useful tonight because we 've been talking about the law as regards governors and parents ' rights and what you 're supposed to ask parents
9 This section describes the growth of self-help parents ' groups and services for parents developed by several voluntary associations .
10 They can ensure that the family receives all the practical help available from statutory and voluntary bodies — perhaps the use of a day nursery , better housing and so on — and they can help to reduce the parents ' guilt and anxiety and encourage them to be accepting and relaxed and neither reject nor over-protect their handicapped child .
11 She was accustomed to her parents ' absences and proud to endure them as a member of a sailor 's family should , without complaint , but now the absence of her mother and father disturbed her .
12 People belonged to their parents ' jati and automatically followed the occupation of the jati into which they were born .
13 The place was fairly close to his parents ' home and possibly had been chosen for that reason .
14 The desire to ensure that the adult child retains an appropriate degree of independence can be particularly tricky in these circumstances , especially if she or he returns to live in the parents ' home and is dependent upon them for accommodation , child care , emotional support and possibly for money as well .
15 It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom .
16 At the weekend she had visited her parents ' home and spent some time with her sister , Jennifer , but she had found that she had been unable to tell them about David Markham .
17 She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter .
18 He was cremated and buried up at Creeting in my parents ' grave and that 's what 's going to happen to me , you see I will be cremated because erm , you know they make a sort of well and take off the top stone and the pebbles and things and er and then the ashes go in the and so in a casket do n't they and you see and so we shall
19 The letter was at pains to stress the parents ' involvement and their rights : ‘ If it is agreed that the Authority should determine the special educational provision for your child … your further rights under the Education Act 1981 will be explained to you . ’
20 Parents ' discos and family discos are always popular particularly when they have a fancy dress theme and ‘ spot prizes ’ .
21 Schools that operate on assumptions about parents ' beliefs and attitudes face the danger of stick in the mud complacency , become resistant to change and , through the adoption of self-fulfilling prophecies , limit both ambitions and achievements .
22 She had inherited a substantial sum of money from her parents ' estates and devoted herself to works of charity .
23 The N.C.M.A. thinks that a minimum of £17 a week per child for full-time care is reasonable , but you could charge more depending on the parents ' earnings and the number of meals provided etc .
24 The course included information and discussions about discrimination , legal issues , support services , parents ' views and shared care .
25 This Spotlight describes the process of tapping into parents ' views and of taking account of these .
26 Giving parents ' names and addresses to campaigners .
27 It holds regular open meetings for parents , parent-governors have a presence at all parents ' evenings and open evenings , publish a regular newsletter and have a history of establishing governors ' task groups and working parties .
28 Units and credits should be an important topic for discussion on parents ' evenings and at meetings of our proposed tutor-group parents ' associations .
29 This may well be done through the normal structures of parents ' evenings and reports .
30 Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children .
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