Example sentences of "[noun sg] of children 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 100 delegates at the Association of Children 's Reporters annual study conference at Peebles also heard Prof Chris Turner of Stirling University 's Department of Applied Social Science call for a fresh look at emergency protection for children , not necessarily because the system had worked unsatisfactorily in Scotland . |
| 2 | His announcement at the annual conference of the Association of Children 's Reporters in Peebles received an immediate welcome from childcare agencies . |
| 3 | Indeed , a good deal of children 's play , if otherwise defined , could be held to fall into this category ; and occasionally police or social workers are hard put to it to determine where the line should be drawn . |
| 4 | In many other parts of the country , primary schools followed a curriculum in which formal activities in number and language occupied the bulk of children 's time in school . |
| 5 | Vernage spent his early years in a succession of children 's homes . |
| 6 | Loss of children 's freedom — intimidation of traffic ; |
| 7 | In addition a programme of children 's events takes place every school holiday . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An experimental study of children 's behaviour outlines a possible answer . |
| 10 | This early work is exemplified in her book A Study of Children 's Thinking , published in 1963 . |
| 11 | A good example of this arises in the study of children 's reasoning , particularly in their ability to make what are known as transitive inferences . |
| 12 | Thus the study of children 's explanations is not only an important topic in its own right ; it also bears on more fundamental questions concerning the relationship between cognitive and linguistic development . |
| 13 | In addition , Piaget ( 1926 ) carried out an observational study of children 's spontaneous speech , and a study in which children had to listen to a spoken explanation and then relay it to another person . |
| 14 | Moreover , the findings from Stein and Trabasso 's ( 1982 ) study of children 's understanding of stories suggest that five-year-olds are able to use the matching rule to infer an intention from information about a result . |
| 15 | In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest in the study of children 's training about economic issues . |
| 16 | The common fault of children 's stories is that they grab the attention with some device , amuse thoroughly , but end up answering no questions . |
| 17 | Both discussion and the way that activities were tackled gave some indication of children 's understanding of the ideas . |
| 18 | Your cover-photo on the Peru issue ( NI 197 ) is a perfect example of the misuse of children 's images . |
| 19 | Alison Lurie is Professor of Children 's Literature at Cornell University , New York . |
| 20 | A Polish couple who lived in Cambuslang at that time regularly frequented the Shop in search of children 's clothes . |
| 21 | Of the 243 companies interviewed , 56 per cent considered the disruption of children 's schooling to be a very or fairly serious problem for transferred staff . |
| 22 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 23 | There was a jumble of children 's voices , then the smaller child looked round the door . |
| 24 | I fancied I could hear the cold laughter of market traders and the chant of children 's games . |
| 25 | From inside the arcade came the murmur of children 's voices . |
| 26 | According to documents obtained in California on Thursday from the Department of Children 's Services , the young boy involved in the allegations told a social worker he and Jackson had a four-month relationship . |
| 27 | Although it may not necessarily clarify the position , there should nevertheless be greater recognition of children 's autonomy interests in the context of school discipline . |
| 28 | Such a view of family life coincided in the UK with an intense concentration during the 1950s on the mother as the primary guarantor of children 's health and welfare ( Oakley , 1981 ; Wilson , 1977 ) and aligns comfortably with the period 's economic boom and reconstructionist philosophy . |
| 29 | For some teachers not only was this difficult to plan and implement as an organizational strategy per se , but the increased demands imposed on them by the strategy meant that their opportunities for systematic and sustained monitoring of children 's progress were further reduced , while at the same time the increased levels of movement and disturbance in the classroom might adversely affect children 's concentration and time on task . |
| 30 | This research will investigate the different and perhaps conflicting ways in which professional groups , parents and children view the formal assessment of children 's special educational needs under the 1981 Education Act . |