Example sentences of "[to-vb] children at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in fact every creative and inventive and imaginative activity ( including that of inventing new tools ) is better done with the help of ‘ technology ’ , and so a failure to familiarize children at school with the use of such technology inhibits their imaginative potential , as well as making them incompetent and virtually unemployable when they leave school . |
| 2 | This is a project which is to help children at school understand something of industry and of the industrial world in which they 're going to work , and also conversely to bring industrialists into involvement with schools themselves and with developing the curriculum . |
| 3 | Indeed , my own interest in the problem came , not through sociology , but originated when , as a law student , I studied the legal powers available to the state to protect children at risk from abuse and neglect . |
| 4 | Equally , the state is obliged in theory to protect children at risk . |
| 5 | Social services departments were strongly criticized in the 1980s for not taking more effective action to protect children at risk . |
| 6 | However , the Bill retains the duty of local authorities to protect children at risk . |
| 7 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ Local authorities have to accept that if they 've made every effort to keep children at home with the non-abusing parent and it does n't work , they may have to be taken into care . ’ |
| 8 | A home tutor is a teacher employed to teach children at home when they are unable to attend school for any length of time , for instance because of illness . |
| 9 | She describes the context of the child care service , the preventive services and what happens when they are not enough to maintain children at home . |