Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year , over a quarter of a million children under the age of 3 contract polio . |
| 2 | In Somalia the combination of war and famine claimed a quarter of a million children dead last year . |
| 3 | Three quarters of a million children have been forced to seek refuge in neighbouring countries , others are disabled for life . |
| 4 | The Harewood House charity auction , hosted by the Queen 's cousin the Earl of Harewood , is in aid of a new children 's day hospital in Leeds . |
| 5 | Can we wait for prosperity and education to keep mankind in check ; so the humble villager , the wretched dweller in the shantytown does n't choose the traditional , unthinking , long-term option of a dozen children , the decision which in the long term destroys both them and theirs ? |
| 6 | This is a fascinating document which gives great insight into the formative years of an important children 's writer who in later life emerged as a conservationist and landowner , endowing the National Trust with fifteen Lakeland farms and 4,000 acres . |
| 7 | There 's a nursery as well with places for a hundred children aged between one and eight.The smallest children are taken off their mothers hands while they 're out at work and given a meal each day . |
| 8 | Highly suitable for a small children 's collection with modest funds for annual updating of stock . |
| 9 | We offer help to pupils with varying needs — general learning problems , specific learning difficulties , the filling of gaps caused by changing schools and , recently , the provision of extra teaching for a few children whose educational attainment is far in excess of that of their peers . |
| 10 | EAGLE Pottery workers pedal-powered their way to raising almost £200 for a national children 's charity . |
| 11 | Publicans would have to apply for a special children 's certificate as they have to do in Scotland . |
| 12 | All of this effort was successful and after further work the locomotive may be in steam next weekend , Saturday , September 5 and Sunday September 6 during a special Children 's Weekend . |
| 13 | In February 1991 Allitt applied to be enrolled for training as a sick children 's nurse at Boston Pilgrim hospital . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The main competitions will be held on the Sunday together with a free children 's event . |
| 16 | He was Joseph Smyth , married with a grown-up children , of Madden Road , in Keady . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the Eastern Health Board said the attack affected more than 80 of the hospital 's 200 beds , including a new children 's ward which opened on Friday . |
| 18 | There was a happy burble of voices which came from a few children discussing some design they were doing . |
| 19 | Referring to a case where grammar school children got drunk one night and began damaging cars and property , one of the juvenile liaison police said , ‘ It was the old drink , like , that did it , but there was one from a local children 's home . |
| 20 | School press officer Adrea Menzies , said : ‘ The school gained a great deal of experience related to the issues of a general election and into voting procedures as well as taking part in a nationwide children 's election . ’ |
| 21 | The EEG unit electro-encephalogram unit is one of the most advanced in a British children 's hospital . |
| 22 | Both parents ordered him to stop calling his sister ‘ Brian ’ , a nickname derived from a slow and rather dull-witted snail who featured in a popular children 's TV show , ‘ The Magic Roundabout ’ . |
| 23 | For since the east coast main-coast line was electrified the police have spoken to a million children about the dangers of trespassing . |
| 24 | For since the east coast main-coast line was electrified the police have spoken to a million children about the dangers of trespassing . |
| 25 | So that although reference is made here to a remote children 's colony , its social significance had much wider reverberations , as indeed did the pedagogical theories worked out by Makarenko . |
| 26 | P. , B. and D. are together with one family , T. and A. were initially together although A. has since had to be moved to a small children 's home , and K. is with a third family . |
| 27 | For ten weeks in the summer , Vorarlberg also offers the largest programme of children 's event in Europe ; the little town of Bludenz plays host to a huge Children 's Chocolate Festival , and 1000kg of Suchard chocolate is donated for the occasion . |
| 28 | This sympathetic , welfare-orientated role was illustrated well when the fieldworker accompanied two neighbourhood men to a local children 's home . |
| 29 | FAMILIES in receipt of state benefit are forced to go hungry because of lack of money according to a National Children 's Home survey just published . |
| 30 | The families of children with learning difficiulties are getting a raw deal , according to a national children 's charity . |