Example sentences of "[pron] children [verb] been " in BNC.

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1 From the moment of their birth my children have been exposed to non-sexist parenting .
2 My children have been quite improperly denied their home , family and friends for nearly two and a half years , and I , and others , have been falsely accused of abusing them .
3 The experiments of the past six years have demonstrated that in many cases the usual ways in which children have been taught to read can be improved .
4 In June 1987 , local newspapers in Cleveland published accounts by parents who complained that their children had been removed from their care by the local authority on the basis of disputed diagnoses of sexual abuse by two local paediatricians .
5 Many of the mothers felt their children had been subjected to physical and emotional abuse by those caring for them during their absence , and were concerned about their lack of academic progress at school .
6 Now , with no warning , no discussions , their children had been taken away .
7 Again they heard the allegations against them on the basis of which their children had been taken away .
8 Their children had been in care for eight months .
9 Some felt their children had been hurt by the family breakdown and that they needed additional care .
10 Serious failures in parenting were also evident in the ex-care sample : one-fifth of their children had been taken into care and as many as one-third of the women had experienced some form of transient or permanent parenting breakdown with at least one of their children .
11 They support the FDR-FMLN on a negotiated solution , condemn the role of the United States and have opted for electoral abstention on the grounds that their children have been denied the vote and that therefore the conditions ( or free elections do not exist .
12 The economic contexts in which mothers care for their children have been deeply affected by the widening of income inequalities in Britain in recent decades .
13 In particular , the divorcing parents who have been interviewed have tended to be those who requested counselling or mediation , the ages of their children have been very diverse , and the use of non-divorcing families as ‘ controls ’ is rare .
14 The couple and their children have been rehoused by the local council — they say that they are definately going to fit smoke alarms to their new home .
15 To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death .
16 Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years .
17 June Smith 's daughter , Tracey and her children have been treated in hospital for shock .
18 Michele is 22 and expecting her fifth baby — her children have been fathered by two different men .
19 A group of white parents , each of whose children had been allocated places at a school ( Headfield ) where 83 per cent of the pupils were of Asian origin , challenged the LEA 's decisions both individually , through separate appeals ( some of which were successful ) , and subsequently through collective action .
20 On Wednesday 20 March , three weeks after the dawn raids , Mr and Mrs H , the fourth family whose children had been removed , were suddenly taken to Kirkwall Police Station for questioning .
21 With reference to the natural mothers whose children had been restored to them , she says , ‘ The blood tie by no means implied a love tie ’ , and comments that the adoptive mothers were warmer on the whole than the natural mothers .
22 A mole working inside Cranborne School had supplied them with a mailing-list of all Muslim parents whose children had been rejected by ‘ This is a Christian Country ’ Gyles , the Junior School headmaster , and Robert and Maisie had been through the telephone directory , picking out anyone with a Muslim-sounding name .
23 There were some who said he was a man whose children had been savaged by a local hound .
24 Families in poverty , families who have a disabled child , lone parents or step-families , families whose children have been taken into care , all are particularly vulnerable to them is match between needs and services .
25 As well as the set OPEN of known nodes which might lead to goals , and whose children have yet to be explored , the algorithm keeps a set called CLOSED of other known nodes whose children have been constructed .
26 It has taken up the cause of a South Ronaldsay mother , seven of whose children have been in care since November 1990 .
27 His children had been lectured on the folly of the Virgin Birth , the slenderness of evidence for shepherds , star or stable , with the intensity of Strauss or Renan , as though ascertainable historical truth was a freedom he passionately desired for his children .
28 Green also records what his children have been doing by themselves — the girls visiting Keswick neighbours to drink tea , or going with their brothers on a journey to Kendal , or sometimes dining out , as when they visited Mr. James Fleming at Grasmere .
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