Example sentences of "children ['s] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This also examined children 's reactions to a variety of inadequate messages , and proposed a metacognitive explanation of the inability to recognize message defects ( see also Shatz , 1978 ; Markman , 1981 ; Lloyd and Beveridge , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | Often children 's response to a picture is limited by their vocabulary and their ability to describe features . |
| 3 | He fervently believed that if there was enough consultation the lists would solve the problems of children 's reading at a stroke . |
| 4 | Like the TACL , this test ( Bishop 1982 ) is designed to measure children 's comprehension of a range of grammatical devices . |
| 5 | Dewart ( 1975 ) showed that young children 's comprehension of a sentence like The duck is bitten by the monkey was facilitated by the provision of an appropriate context ( poor duck ) , in comparison with their level of performance when the context was inappropriate ( poor monkey ) . |
| 6 | In the park is a children 's playground with a carousel . |
| 7 | But there 's a big difference in my view between the sort of regular abuse and assaults on staff in a Casualty Department and somebody walking into what should have been a locked ward on a children 's unit in a hospital at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 8 | Parental expectations , children 's exposure to a range of experience , and the availability of structured education were different , for example , for the five-year-old in the 1930s and 1950s , and these are different from those of the late 1980s . |
| 9 | Toil , weather , human character and the quirks of animals are all graphically rendered , as well as the way in which newly-lifted potatoes glow ‘ like children 's shoulders after a day in the sun ’ , or in which the voice of a once-active young man now crippled by an accident becomes ‘ far-away , like a priest 's voice at the altar ’ . |
| 10 | Ottakars , the eight strong chain of bookshops in the south of England , has opened its first stand-alone children 's bookshop in a property next door to its branch at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 11 | A full investigation is underway into how a rapist was able to attack a , a girl of eleven in a children 's ward at a hospital in Surrey . |
| 12 | A highly selective bibliography produced by the Book Trust , which annually attempts to choose the best children 's books for a range of ages . |
| 13 | She is prolific , having been awarded the Mary Vaughan Jones Prize in 1988 for her particular contribution to the field of children 's books over a number of years . |
| 14 | Future research could profitably explore the nature of children 's explanations in a range of classroom contexts . |
| 15 | In this thesis he describes a meticulous dietary study over a period of several years at the Juliana Children 's Hospital in a patient with coeliac disease , which started in 1936 ! |
| 16 | Yet section 4 seems to place severe limitations in some circumstances on the exploration by a children 's hearing of a child 's entire social background . |
| 17 | Opposite is an equally large Menzies , where the books , mostly paperbacks , are at the back of the ground floor , with a small children 's section in a basement . |
| 18 | Also proposed is a twelve month cooling off period where couples consider the situation and parents reflect on their children 's future with a marriage guidance counsellor . |
| 19 | The need to assist a stranger , even a foreign one , even a strange foreign animal , badly injured outside one 's home will bring the children 's party to a halt . |