Example sentences of "[adj] children ['s] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citalia 's generous children 's reductions apply to children aged ( on the date of return travel ) from 2 to 11 inclusive and up to 16 for self-catering . |
| 2 | And Danny , Champion Of The World ( U Collins Home Video ) is one of those occasional British children 's films in the tradition of The Railway Children , where a horrid grown-up ( here Robbie Coltrane with a moustache and slicked-back hair ) is defeated by a kid ( Samuel Irons ) and his adult allies ( notably real-life father Jeremy Irons ) . |
| 3 | All percentage child reductions including free children 's holidays ( i.e. 100% reduction ) apply to the basic price ( including airport charges ) , and applicable flight supplement and meals chosen . |
| 4 | subscribe to parents and get free children 's books worth nearly £8 page 90 |
| 5 | This will include a preview of spring 1993 children 's titles compiled by Jennifer Taylor , who will cover picture books , anthologies , fiction , non-fiction and information books of popular appeal . |
| 6 | This will include a preview of spring 1993 children 's titles compiled by Jennifer Taylor , who will cover picture books , anthologies , fiction , non-fiction and information books of popular appeal . |
| 7 | She knew that although the shop stocked a few overalls and smocks and even some children 's clothes and sheepskin jackets , it was the long dresses with their wonderfully romantic feel and yards of material in the skirts , that the cognoscenti came to buy . |
| 8 | She gave him a stuffed bear and some children 's books . |
| 9 | Distinguishing some children 's books as ‘ classics ’ does serve one valuable purpose : it is the recognition that they are works of merit in their own right . |
| 10 | A few children 's homes have been opened but they also double as reformatories for young offenders . |
| 11 | 2 children 's pools |
| 12 | All this time I was trying to make a little money by doing hack-work translations of French and German children 's stories . |
| 13 | It was as a mere 12-year-old — forever doodling characters from favourite children 's stories — that Albert Uderzo set his heart on becoming France 's answer to Walt Disney . |
| 14 | For example , a cartoon ‘ juke box ’ in one of the discs allows children to edit some popular children 's songs together with their accompanying animated cartoon stories . |
| 15 | For the tweeny years , fed on pantomimes , theatre-in-education tours of schools and TV series stage spectaculars , there are few plays taken from popular children 's books ( could you include Shakespeare ? ) . |
| 16 | There were no English children 's books in the house , and the boys did not shop on their own nor have regular pocket money . |
| 17 | It has been suggested , for instance , that language-impaired children 's problems with syntax may be related to imperfect acquisition of verb argument structures . |
| 18 | The focus on the child-rearing implications of women 's employment has led to such detailed considerations as the relation between the employment status of mothers and their children 's health , and the possibility of an association between employment and the nutritional adequacy of pre-school children 's diets . |
| 19 | Since the implementation of the relevant sections of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act , social services authorities have integrated the previously separate system of approved schools and remand homes for delinquent children with their ordinary children 's homes . |
| 20 | Somewhere between the ages of eight and 10 children 's ideas of what they want to draw become much more ambitious ; in particular , they want their pictures to be more visually realistic and for most of them this ambition far outstrips their skill . |
| 21 | Jokes are clearly an important part of our popular , oral culture , from play-ground to night-club , that only partly translate well into print ( in cartoons and comic postcards ) , outside children 's joke-books . |
| 22 | The new realists took an unblinking look at the human effects of welfare economics and the emergent morality of a nation slowly quitting austerity for affluence ; the old romantics looked rather to recover a world of fine fabling like Spenser 's Faerie Queene or the Victorian children 's stories of George MacDonald . |
| 23 | Whatever the subtlety which is brought into arguments about the quality of teaching , those classes and groups within a school which , regardless of individual children 's difficulties and disadvantages , regularly register high attainments will enhance the name of the school . |
| 24 | She says that her teachers are keen to make sure that all work should match individual children 's needs . |
| 25 | The idea is that all results are published and schools are then placed in league tables , so the main purpose of the tests is as much about the stimulation of competition as it is about diagnosing individual children 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 26 | How can we possibly justify creating 7,000 additional children 's books each year ? |
| 27 | How can we possibly justify creating 7,000 additional children 's books each year ? |
| 28 | After the 1740s children 's books included part works for the children of the poor . |
| 29 | In the east chamber of the Maynard vault at Little Easton , Essex , lies a coffin from the 1660s elaborately appliquéed with coats-of-arms similar to those at Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire ; whilst in the eastern Poulett vault at Hinton St George , Somerset , are three children 's coffins with delightful stamped filigree fringes around the lid ( Col. 9 ) as well as simple iron grips , all three dating from the early 1700s . |
| 30 | Three children 's bikes , worth £75 and a skateboard valued at £90 were taken from a garden on Proudfoot Drive , Bishop Auckland , on Saturday . |