Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] children ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Samways , Adviser for English and Drama in Dorset , was very progressive in outlook , holding views about children 's learning which were anathema to most right-wing Conservatives . |
| 2 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 3 | Not all of these demands are quantifiable and measurable or will rest easily within a neat job description : some will stem from anxieties about children 's academic progress , some will centre upon their social and emotional welfare . |
| 4 | Most of the discussion in the media was trivial , with much attention given to the list of authors for children 's reading , which excluded Enid Blyton and Captain W. E. Johns ( see chapter 6 on literature ) . |
| 5 | That was Phillis Harley 's verdict on an aerobics marathon which raised funds for children 's homes in Aberdeen . |
| 6 | It is disturbing to learn that books for children 's libraries in Edinburgh are selected on the political basis that the stories ‘ reflect the multi-cultural nature of society ’ . |
| 7 | Its specialist , academic , authoritarian elements have been persistently criticized , partly because they ignored progressives ' demands for children 's activity , participation and development through discovery , and partly because of the perceived irrelevance of this education to the lives of working-class children , the majority of whom have failed to benefit from it . |
| 8 | At least one study has found a positive and statistically significant relationship between maternal ratings of children 's command of specific vocabulary items and performance on a formal language test ( Cunningham and Sloper 1984 ) and this provides some support for the validity of checklist assessments . |
| 9 | Examines many aspects of children 's lives , including birth rates , health and family structure . |
| 10 | There is an emphasis in educational thinking today which stresses the common and shared aspects of children 's schooling . |
| 11 | The first three chapters are concerned with various aspects of children 's ability to understand language . |
| 12 | In the next two chapters , aspects of children 's awareness and perception are considered . |
| 13 | A particular study may involve focal attention to , say , a transcript of learners engaged in role-play or in some formal aspects of children 's writing . |
| 14 | These include subsets of the LOB corpus ( Lancaster-Leeds Treebank , 45000 words ) and the Brown corpus ( Gothenburg corpus , 128000 words ) although some others exist ( e.g. Nijmegen Corpus 130,000 words and the Polytechnic of Wales Corpus of 100,000 words of children 's speech ) . |
| 15 | On sale at record shops and branches of Children 's World , the Boots subsidiary superstores on city outskirts , records and cassettes cost £7.99 , CDs £10.77 . |
| 16 | He made outstanding contributions to all branches of children 's surgery but his lifelong interest was the aetiology of malformations . |
| 17 | Noteworthy are the fine flower and fruit paintings , and the early pictures of children 's games . |
| 18 | Example : Settlor and spouse beneficiaries under children 's trust |
| 19 | The paintings combine fragments from children 's books , allusions to classical history , intimate feelings , and ironic reflections on the personality of the artist a cardboard hero like any other . |
| 20 | We need the publishing skills which really can penetrate through the powerful myths and barriers which surround the role of books in children 's minds , and give them real playground credibility . |
| 21 | The latest painting is a colourful mural in Ballybeen Estate , where artist Ken Parker has incorporated ideas and images from children 's paintings at Ballybeen Activity Centre . |
| 22 | Erm , it 's again recognized in the S S As that it is more social factors that impact on the need to spend on children 's services , and therefore things like single parent families , the level of family income and these tend to have a greater impact , but it would be foolish to assume that with a higher child population you are not going to get more demands on children 's services , and therefore we have provided a fifty thousand pounds ' provision within that to take care of problems . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | Studies that have examined parental influences on children 's eating patterns have shown that parents have a significant influence . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) greater awareness of readability levels and general appropriateness of books to children 's needs , interests and independent use ; |
| 26 | Within the schools , the Bilingual Education Project has created curricular materials such as Gaelic nursery rhymes and songs , cards , picture books with Gaelic tests , photographic sequences reflecting the communities in which the children are growing up and materials for young mothers aimed at informing and guiding them on issues related to the quality of playgroup experience , including books on children 's play , book-making materials and equipment and films on playgroup organisation and on the way young children learn . |
| 27 | To the extent that transformational rules have been challenged as accurate accounts of children 's emerging knowledge of the rules for organising language structures ( see Chapter 1 ) , the LAD is suspect . |
| 28 | Similarly the scientific accounts of children 's language development involve consideration of the nature of bilingualism in psycholinguistic terms . |
| 29 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 30 | But what of the other icons of children 's television . |