Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood . |
| 2 | There is much to interest children and adults , educational groups and serious scholars . |
| 3 | Mr Amato said : ‘ Believing there is always a bad guy with a big stick , who hits the little guy , belongs to the world of three to five-year-old children . ’ |
| 4 | In the long run , however , the time wasted in nagging exceeds the initial investment in time and effort involved in training children that parents mean what they say . |
| 5 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 6 | The historian D.L.W. Tough comments that the main pointers are in what is omitted rather than what is mentioned : barely a reference to shirts or nightshirts , and the possibility that even adult Borderers had their underclothes sewn on and removed as seldom as those of slum children in later industrial cities . |
| 7 | Men are still able to father children into their seventies , though their sperm count is lower than in their youth . |
| 8 | Today although there 's still a problem area it 's not a straightforward pregnancy today , the boys are able to father children and the girls are able to have children which means you 're actually going to increase the incidence of P K U into the community is n't it ? |
| 9 | Identify placements which can be made available to school children in order that they can gain a firsthand view of the health service . |
| 10 | As Price points out , the importance of his finding was that such ‘ high ’ lead levels were common in city children in Britain . |
| 11 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 12 | I think the evidence though is that men like okay , we 're talking generally , but if you look at the evidence of how many women are raped , one in four of girl children are molested before the age of sixteen , that to me suggests hatred ! |
| 13 | Both the idea that it is desirable for adult children to live with parents , and the custom that it is most desirable for this arrangement to be with the husband 's rather than the wife 's parents , contrast with ideas commonly held in Britain about desirable relationships between parents and children in adult life . |
| 14 | An education service is provided by the park for use by the many thousands of school children who visit the park each year . |
| 15 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 16 | There are now thousands of street children in La Paz , Cochabamba and Santa Cruz , living rough without families and surviving by theft , child prostitution and drug dealing . |