Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an innocence about Nicholson 's story-telling — practised for the valley children whose company he most enjoyed — so remote from the recent thoughts and experiences of Hope that he was immediately beguiled by it . |
| 2 | In the evening he takes classes for the village children and perhaps acts as a model for their future . |
| 3 | The wood chips will be of practical benefit , too , for the school children . |
| 4 | they did that for the school children |
| 5 | He added : ‘ Although parents can not be blamed totally for the way children end up , we are able to shape their behaviour and offer them moral guidance . |
| 6 | My problem is that we wish to give a small donation to Bruce for the street children , but our charitable giving is channelled through Charity Giving Scotland , whose vouchers can only be used by a charity registered as such in Britain . |
| 7 | THANK goodness that the Nintendo and Euro Disney generation still thrill to an old fashioned puppet show such as the Parasol Children 's Theatre production of Alice in Wonderland at the Redgrave Theatre , Farnham this week until Saturday . |
| 8 | Knowledge about the way children acquire language is obviously important to teachers . |
| 9 | This project aims to explore what teachers implementing the programmes assume about the way children learn , how they interpret the differences among their pupils ( in the new atmosphere which emphasises ‘ attainment targets ’ ) and the ways in which they cater for those differences . |
| 10 | No doubt we shall hear about the street children from Amnesty & other sources from time to time . |
| 11 | The disturbing world of the flower children |
| 12 | By July it was observing the ‘ Disturbing world of the flower children ’ and a week later it featured ‘ Weekends with the flower children ’ complete with notes on make-up followed by ‘ Flower children at home ’ comprising pictures of radicals doing very little in a house off the Balls Pond Road . |
| 13 | But it can lead to trouble : many of the problem children I see as a child psychologist are ‘ precious ’ . |
| 14 | Paul was singing to himself and asking questions of the type children tend to , such as why were n't the birds all blown away during the storm , and why did n't the sea fill up with water with the stream going so hard ? |
| 15 | The choice of texts should draw on reading material of the kind children will encounter in school through the programmes of study we have recommended . |
| 16 | And , having provided a generally pessimistic account of the evacuee children 's condition , Our Towns drew the conclusion that what was needed was primarily a reform of the education system that would ‘ lay the foundations for community life and expose the schools to the pressure of middle-class standards and requirements ’ , with an emphasis on ‘ training for future wives ’ . |
| 17 | Six surviving compositions may be ascribed with certainty to Plummer , namely two movements of a four-voiced tenor Mass with the antiphon ‘ Nesciens Mater ’ as its tenor , and three three-voiced settings of Marian antiphons which do not use the chant and must have been sung as votive memorial pieces ; his masterpiece , Anna Mater Matris Christi , sets a respond , again without the chant , in a remarkable texture of three equal tenors with an optional treble part riding above — certainly a fitting example of the art of the master of the chapel children . |
| 18 | Because er I knew the area very well , I was er we had two committees which were composed of two counties , we had the Priory Committee th that was a home at Selkirk , a children 's home , and we had in cooperation with Berwickshire , Berwickshire and Selkirkshire were the owners of the Priory children 's home . |
| 19 | As an analysis of the nature of the child in the primary years and of the way children learn , the Plowden Report ranks as the most detailed study of the early years of schooling ever produced . |
| 20 | I deal with children all the time erm many of my I 've been there eight years now and so lots of children have passed through my hands who in particular have lots of educational problems and need special help , and I suppose somebody though erm that although the rage now is to have Governors who are working in industry , and that 's perfectly proper , that it would n't be a bad idea to have somebody who is supposed to have some knowledge and background of the way children behave and what children need , so erm although I do have some politics , you know , Bill , I erm largely keep them quiet in the governing body . |
| 21 | Older children may have greater ease in leaving because of the hostage children left behind ; indeed , the last child may have been conceived , as many late children are , to postpone the final loss . |
| 22 | In free as well as in pauper apprenticeship corporal punishment was allowed within reason , and the treatment of the " chimney boys " was as notorious as that of the factory children , for in both cases youngsters were being consigned to labour in conditions in which few parents would willingly have placed them . |
| 23 | Attendance at the careers convention once each year is not enough and will in any case only reach a small proportion of the school children who may be contemplating their future . |
| 24 | The next day some of the school children were playing in a farmer 's field in their lunch hour , so they were a little late for afternoon school . |
| 25 | But then she remembered standing alone in front of the school children all afternoon , because of Gilbert . |
| 26 | Having accepted that she must wear it , Alexandra then set herself to dress for the pleasure of the Rectory children , throwing good taste to the winds and insisting upon hanging herself with all that glittered from the jewel box Aunt Emily had left her , its rose suede depths heaped with treasures from Richard Talbot . |
| 27 | My grandmother in Cornwall , as a very old lady , was visited regularly by many of the village children to whom she was just ‘ Granny . ’ |
| 28 | It 's for one of the village children , that sweet little boy of Jan Coggan 's . |
| 29 | Some of the village children took the trouble not long ago to collect the present-day names of the animals on the farms . |
| 30 | 3 The Last of the Star Children |