Example sentences of "as children " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his final chapter , he notes that the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce identified what he feels ‘ may perhaps be the most important influence of all in driving up the divorce rate , namely the idealization of the individual pursuit of self-gratification and personal pleasure at the expense of a sense of reciprocal obligations and duties towards helpless dependents , such as children , and , our society as a whole ’ ( pp 403–4 ) . |
| 2 | J. L. Pearson avoided this arrangement at St Peter 's by confining the two-storey teaching accommodation to the perimeter of the wedge-shaped site at the rear of his church , the central ‘ spine ’ of the plan linking the blocks on the east and west site boundaries to create two largely internal courtyards which operated as children 's playgrounds ( Fig 53 ) . |
| 3 | The letter is interesting , though , for the light it casts on his rooted dread of mental imbalance , and on his horrified feeling that the unsatisfactory relations which had existed between himself and his father since eariy adolescence might somehow mar him for the rest of his life : You and I are both qualified for it [ neurosis ] because we were both afraid of our fathers as children . |
| 4 | If , as some Israeli ‘ moderates ’ argue , terrorism always was a marginal question , it is certainly infinitely less serious for Israel 's future than the mass popular unrest of the Intifada , but by continuing to lump everything they can — such as children throwing stones — under its general rubric , the ‘ extremists ’ seek to ‘ de-legitimise ’ the Intifada , and evade any necessity for looking at its real causes . |
| 5 | Many ‘ minority ’ viewing programmes — such as children 's , documentaries , religious , educational and scientific — may not attract huge audiences , or lots of advertising , but they reach parts quiz shows , soap operas , American series and adverts do n't . |
| 6 | People who will not like Aladdin are doctrinaire anti-vulgarians or those who were traumatised as children at other pantos . |
| 7 | The insecurities remain because they were so entrenched at a very important developmental time when as children they were dependent and let down . |
| 8 | Despite the ‘ ceasefire ’ , considerable bitterness remained in several quarters , much of it focusing on Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , Speaker of parliament , who described ministers as children who had lost their way . |
| 9 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
| 10 | Counselling & Therapy with women who have been sexually abused as children on Feb 17 . |
| 11 | As children , she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring . |
| 12 | Indeed , they are treated more as grown-up students than as children to be spoon-fed , and this in almost every case has a good effect both on the work produced and on their motivation . |
| 13 | They were sitting as they had done as children years ago , Elaine with her legs tucked under her , Charles with his arms round his knees . |
| 14 | Up to 1975 women were treated as children . |
| 15 | As children , we grow up with the lovely stories in which animals really are people : The Wind in the Willows , Just so Stories , Watership Down . |
| 16 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 17 | There was a massive expansion of public housing ( which was even called council housing ) ; responsibility for personal social services ( such as children 's welfare and provision for the old ) grew dramatically ; the growth of education budgets and responsibility for ( almost ) universal primary and secondary education gave local education authorities very high profiles in the lives of ordinary people ; and the introduction of a nationally organized town and country planning system suggested a major new influence over development . |
| 18 | ‘ We have to work very hard not to treat the very frail old people as children . |
| 19 | The parting may also coincide with other types of change , such as children leaving home and friends moving away , and of course retirement from work . |
| 20 | MPD frequently arises in people who were sexually abused as children , or who experienced what Putnam calls ‘ sensory deprivation ’ — being bound , gagged , stuffed in trunks or locked in closets for example . |
| 21 | The Health and Safety at Work Act and the singular dedication of engineers and politicians are denying children the right to grow up as children . |
| 22 | Inevitably , human ethologists have kept to more circumscribed activities , such as children playing in a nursery or mothers looking after their babies . |
| 23 | This is similar to the growing pains that we have as children and will soon pass . |
| 24 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 25 | Hypochondria is thought to be a result of repressed emotions and secret fears , and it is far more likely to develop in families where there is a preoccupation with illness , or in people who have a great deal of contact with invalids as children . |
| 26 | Real books are those written by authors who have something they need to say and that have been published separately as children 's books , not teaching aids . |
| 27 | As children , we are not taught to use our innate perceptive abilities . |
| 28 | As a result far too many people emerge from their doctor , lawyer or bank manager feeling that they have not had a fair deal and have been treated as children rather than as adults who know their own mind . |
| 29 | The combination of early fantasy and external fact is what leaves many people in severe difficulty after being sexually abused as children . |
| 30 | Moreover , in contrast to much of Buxtehude , the spaces are occupied for most of the day so that space is not freed for other uses , such as children 's play or adults ' talk . |