Example sentences of "but parents " in BNC.
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| 1 | But parents and pupils are suspicious of the new exam , and the early indications are that , in many places , AS-levels are being mis-used as trial-run A-levels . |
| 2 | Teachers like it and pupils love it , but parents dread the prospect of yet another tour of faraway places , says Nicola Tyrer |
| 3 | Involuntary reception into care : if a child or young person is in a situation of acute danger the youth department is entitled to intervene , but parents or guardians have to be informed immediately and the case be brought before a court for a care decision before the end of the day following the admission ( s. 42 ) , Where force is necessary , the police department must act but under the professional guidance of the youth department . |
| 4 | The possible solutions will depend on the severity of the handicap , but parents should be encouraged to consider ways in which their children might remain creatively active , thus continuing the process of education rather than allowing the person to retrogress . |
| 5 | But Parents for Safe Food are lending their support to the Soil Association 's efforts to ensure that by the year 2000 , 20% of our food will be organic . |
| 6 | A survey of some 2000 British families by the psychiatrist Michael Rutter showed that nearly all reported a number of undesirable forms of behaviour in their children , but parents varied in the amount of ‘ bad ’ behaviour they could tolerate . |
| 7 | Contributions to recurrent costs were about Z$420 million ( about Z$100 per pupil per year ) .7 This parental involvement is theoretically voluntary , but parents are presented with the option of participating or not having the schools they want . |
| 8 | But parents , who know those facts , can use all their influence to discourage the habit . |
| 9 | Invitations come via playgroups but parents of the few children who do not attend one can contact the headteacher , Margaret Sutton , at the school . |
| 10 | It is obviously difficult for a parent to help a child through a developmental hurdle which he has not properly encompassed himself , but parents and children can grow up together , or , as we might say , children can bring up their parents . |
| 11 | It has been known , but parents who do such a thing are as disliked as they would be in any society , and such marriages are often barren . |
| 12 | Most parents graduate to giving one warning after the initial command so that the child has a little time in which to respond but parents need to be very careful that they do n't lapse into nagging to get the child to comply again . |
| 13 | But parents are warned it 's not a miracle cure |
| 14 | ‘ The vaccine is a great step forward but parents must still stay on their guard against meningitis , ’ warned Helen Buttery of the National Meningitis Trust . |
| 15 | no children , but parents ( even if divorced ) — all to them |
| 16 | if no children but parents , brothers and their children — part to spouse , part to relations |
| 17 | How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it . |
| 18 | New words and phrases entered the language of education : open plan buildings no longer had classrooms , they had home bases or teaching areas ; the maths bay became a resource area ; teachers worked in teams ; the timetable was replaced by a continually renegotiable programme ; staff rooms were regarded as places of retreat but parents ' rooms were essential . |
| 19 | All parents need support at different points in their parenting careers , but parents with learning difficulties are frequently beset by additional problems . |
| 20 | This information might be circulated informally amongst professionals but parents remain ignorant of its existence . |
| 21 | Holman stresses that lack of contact did not necessarily reflect parental wishes ( in fact nearly half of the parents wanted their children back ) , but parents felt they were being tacitly excluded by the agency . |
| 22 | But parents , children and young people do not regard coming into residential care as an admission of failure . |
| 23 | If you have n't got any issue but parents or fore brother or sister or the issue of that say it 's your nephews or nieces and you 've still got a spouse of course , she still is n't get She or he is still not going to get the whole lot . |
| 24 | But parents like me can not afford to ignore them , even to permit Dr Oliver to find a totally ideologically sound approach to alleviating disability . |
| 25 | But parents ‘ should not hold prejudiced views about the other race which might be uncomfortable for a mixed-race child ’ . |
| 26 | So the point I 'm making is that offspring will be prepared to make sacrifices under those conditions , where erm , the R is greater than C. But parents will want offspring to make sacrifices , wherever B is greater than C , and the parent is not concerned with the discount parameter R , but agreed on relatedness , because parents are equally related through their offspring . |
| 27 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 28 | but parents try ) : the elm trees lingering |
| 29 | But parents at Kingsmead are unconvinced |
| 30 | The tests are due to be carried out over the next fortnight but parents will face a six-week wait for the results . |