Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] to children " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Education Act of 1902 brought about the establishment of secondary schools with 25 per cent of places going as scholarships to children who had passed an exam at the elementary schools . |
| 2 | The least successful schools were those which implemented the minimum programme asked for by GIST : administration of questionnaires to children , allowing women visitors into the school and piloting , more or less reluctantly , teaching materials devised by the team . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) greater awareness of readability levels and general appropriateness of books to children 's needs , interests and independent use ; |
| 4 | These , combined with a particular interest in curative education for children with mental and physical handicaps , he developed over the next eleven years in the course of attachments to children 's hospitals and homes in Austria , Switzerland , and Silesia ( in Germany at that time ) , and , by 1936 , in private practice in Vienna . |
| 5 | But if we want to adopt an approach to family life which is Christ-centred in its essence , we must ask how we are to glorify God in the relationship of parents to children and children to parents . |
| 6 | Hundreds of accidents to children and thousands of deaths of animals are caused every year by thoughtlessly discarded waste . |
| 7 | MILITARY brass-hats proudly handed out scores of prizes to children — not noticing that the Union Jack printed on them was flying UPSIDE DOWN . |
| 8 | MPs have now completed work on the Bill drafted by Parents against Tobacco to prevent the sale of cigarettes to children . |
| 9 | The sale of cigarettes to children has been illegal since 1904 . |
| 10 | It comes after a national survey revealed one in four 15 year olds smokes regularly and that sales of cigarettes to children are estimated to be worth around £70m a year . |
| 11 | Each will expand to contribute to a wide variety of approaches to children and families , such as preventative work , rehabilitation , substitute care , and therapy . |
| 12 | The Regional Council approved a new item in the Capital Budget for 1992/93 and successive years specifically to promote a programme of works targeted at reducing the incidence of injuries to children whilst on journeys to and from school . |
| 13 | Teacher trainers have also been greatly encouraged by the obvious interest and commitment of students to children with special needs ; optional and elective courses on this subject have always been over-subscribed . |
| 14 | ‘ The Children 's Act means there has to be a certain ratio of adults to children at the play scheme so we do need people to help out . |
| 15 | With regard to this duty , there were no instances in the observational data where policewomen were deliberately sent to deal with injuries to children , for example , or injuries to people in road traffic accidents , functions which senior managers think them very suited to . |
| 16 | But there was a darker side in attitudes to children . |
| 17 | ‘ We are worried that fireworks may be made available in shops to children under the age of 16 . |
| 18 | Some writers , like Michael Allen Fox , argue that testing for safety the thousands of new products that come on to market annually , from shoe-polishes to children 's crayons , ‘ is often confused by the media with research , leading to a negative impression of the latter ’ ( 1986 : 181 ) . |
| 19 | The conditional projections made in 1969 by David Butler and Donald Stokes about the differential fertility — death rates between the social classes , combined with the transmission of political loyalties from parents to children — appeared to make Labour a natural majority party . |
| 20 | In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene . |
| 21 | As Bell points out , because of the composition of his sample , these illustrations all concern flows of money from parents to children at a point in the life course when characteristically resources are stretched , namely in the early years of child-rearing . |
| 22 | Parents to children I shall begin by looking at support which flows from parents to children , examples of which can be found in all the categories which I have listed , although personal care in a sense is the least important because most adult children do not need it . |
| 23 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 24 | Whatever may have happened before , wealth flowed decisively from parents to children in all households in Britain from then on . |
| 25 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 26 | A wide range of people were interviewed , everyone from mothers to children , the local police and the recently formed tenants ' association . |
| 27 | In default of a totally homogenised society , it is impossible to imagine a situation where there will not be variation from school to school , from teacher to teacher and from children to children . |
| 28 | It was not a lesson , according to Mayhew , that the poor in fact needed to learn , for he finds the same scrupulous cleanliness in the poorest of London tenements , where every object in sight from chairs to children seems to have been that moment newly scrubbed . |
| 29 | Er Have you passed on your interest in stamps to children or grandchildren ? |
| 30 | Harriet Harvey Wood , head of literature at the British Council , is awarded an OBE , as is Dorothy Butler in New Zealand for services to children 's literature . |