Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1961 she served on the Secretary of State 's working party on Standards of Ascertainment for Scottish School Children ( Degrees of Mental Handicap ) . |
| 2 | The Swann Report ( 1985 , p 393 ) devotes half a page ( out of 800 pages ) to this age group and recommends extension of nursery facilities for ethnic minority children and greater numbers of staff from the ethnic minorities . |
| 3 | Doubts on grading ethnic-minority pupils Gary Duncan looks at the background to the flawed assessment system for ethnic minority children |
| 4 | The Education Act of 1944 , for example , led to the majority of rural school children being educated for the first time outside their own village after the age of eleven . |
| 5 | Not considering the probability that short spacing itself may be a cause of prematurity , and in light of the high mortality of low birthweight children , it was suggested that prematurity is the cause of the high mortality at the less than one year birth interval . |
| 6 | To decide whether 0.237 of working class children attending selective secondary schools is high or low , it can be compared with the 0.397 of intermediate class children and 0.719 of service class children who attend those schools . |
| 7 | In fact , nearly a quarter of working class children went to selective secondary schools ; the value of this path is therefore 0.237 . |
| 8 | Equalising educational provision for children of different socio-economic backgrounds does not do away with the educational disabilities of working class children vis-à-vis middle class children . |
| 9 | AMONG THE SPEAKERS WERE ALI BOUREQUAT , THE FRENCH CITIZEN FREED LAST DECEMBER AFTER 19 YEARS IN MOROCCAN PRISONS ; BRUCE HARRIS , THE RELENTLESS CAMPAIGNER ON BEHALF OF GUATEMALAN STREET CHILDREN ; AND IAN MARTIN , THE DEPARTING SECRETARY GENERAL OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL . |
| 10 | Becher et al ( 1981 ) point to some of the problems : it is not obvious what the real reasons are for poor results ( e.g. poor intake ) ; criticism of a hardworking school operating in bad circumstances undermines morale ; and a high scoring school acts as a magnet and deprives other schools of high ability children . |
| 11 | The Government 's own dietary surveys of British school children show that they eat too many crisps , chips , biscuits and chocolates and very little fresh food . |
| 12 | By so doing he provides her with some immunity against the chronic depression which afflicts so many mothers of pre-school age children , and which in turn undermines their abilities as parents . |
| 13 | Heber is better known , however , for his direction of the Milwaukee Project , an intensive educational and child care intervention programme supported by the federal government , in which the IQs of pre-school ghetto children were supposedly raised by more than 30 points . |
| 14 | Her school has a high proportion of ethnic minority children where I felt Balbinder might not have seemed such a problem . |
| 15 | The classes were small , as was the number of ethnic minority children . |
| 16 | Chaudhury ( 1986 ) and Rehal ( 1989 ) identified how parents of ethnic minority children may be disadvantaged during special needs assessments by the failure of LEAs and professionals to take account of language and cultural factors . |
| 17 | Each of these points was vigorously argued by Dr. Madeleine Atkins who spoke principally about the findings of her six-month study on Training Teachers of Ethnic Minority Community Languages , undertaken with Professor Maurice Draft of the University of Nottingham for the DES Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Ethnic Minority Children ( the Swann Committee ) . |
| 18 | The committee 's general conclusion was that the response to these issues must lie in the education of all children , not just of ethnic minority children . |
| 19 | This research project examines the experience of ethnic minority children at the point where they first come into contact with educational system , ie in nursery schools . |
| 20 | Hence , although the Council can claim that their guidance documents have contained some reference to equal opportunities and that guidelines from the Secretary of State have included reference to issues of gender and the needs of ethnic minority children there does appear , however , in the words of Shah ( 1990:315 ) to be no consensus . |
| 21 | NEWS that an investigation has been started into the possible mis-assessment of ethnic minority children in Strathclyde has highlighted an issue which for years has been simmering in Britain 's classrooms and education departments . |
| 22 | Range of stationery featuring the artwork of some of Random House Children 's Books most successful children 's illustrators Jane Hissey 's Old Bear print portfolio , calendar , diary , address book , bookplates , bookmark , height chart ; Alice diary , address book ; postcard books including artwork by Posy Simmonds , Reg Cartwright and Deborah King ; Shirley Hughes Baby Record Book , Birthday Book and Alfie and Annie Rose Height Chart |
| 23 | These were published by Hutchinson ( now part of Random House Children 's Books ) , whom she now also called upon to represent . |
| 24 | Behind the tarpaulin there were tables and chairs for the RCM workers , mostly , as an American journalist noticed , elegantly turned-out young ladies who looked ‘ a good deal more like a junior league committee getting together to discuss a costume ball than officials waiting to sort out a trainload of Jewish refugee children ’ . |
| 25 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 26 | Of deep concern , also , is the fact that in many countries machinery and criteria for final assessment of primary school children ( with all the feedback that this brings into the school curriculum ) are still dominated by the requirements of selection for Secondary School despite the obvious truth of Nyerere 's statement that those capable of further education will readily identify themselves . |
| 27 | There was a rapid increase in the number of primary school children , with very overcrowded primary classes , and governments pushed all the available teachers and capital into primary education , limiting local authorities ' right to provide nursery education even when they wished to . |
| 28 | IN JUST over four months time thousands of primary school children throughout Northern Ireland will sit what has been billed as the new 11-plus . |
| 29 | Thousands of primary school children in Gloucestershire faced sandwiches when county chiefs cut 3 million pounds from the education budget . |
| 30 | The problem with many of the parents we interviewed of primary school children was that they did n't really know what their children were doing at school a lot of the time and , because they did n't know what they were doing , they sort of feared that it , they were n't doing anything or that what they were doing was not actual work , what they remembered as work . |