Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] of children " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the familiar red triangular sign picturing two running children , internationally accepted as a warning to motorists that they are approaching a school , was interpreted by almost all of a sample of children as being a sign for them to observe , not one for cautioning drivers . |
| 2 | This term ends with a detailed introduction to the nature of ‘ narrative ’ , and of ‘ poetry ’ , within the context of a consideration of children reading and writing in school . |
| 3 | He left it in Turnmill Street where it attracted the interest of a horde of children , and he gave a boy a coin to mind the horse . |
| 4 | It would seem to stand more peacefully now when considering that there used to be much bustle and slamming of doors , the shouts and cries of a houseful of children and the ailing Reverend Tennyson . |
| 5 | Therefore when , in 1926 , the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry ( largely at the instigation of William Beveridge , one of its members ) recommended the introduction of a system of children 's allowances financed by the mining industry itself but with a hint that it might be accompanied by a reduction in wage rates , the Miners ' Federation was only prepared to accept the proposal if financed out of general taxation . |
| 6 | ‘ Not till — ’ But their argument was violently interrupted as a cheer of derision went up from another corner of the playground and Jack caught a glimpse of Derek 's looming bulk in the middle of a crowd of children . |
| 7 | In light of this , he expected no reward but this day he knew he had received one as he stood at the door of a ward of children on whom he had operated , now sleeping peacefully and painlessly . |
| 8 | The National Child Development Study , a longitudinal study of a group of children born in 1958 , showed that the children of owner-occupiers had four times the chance of being in their own owned home rather than in a local authority rented home at age 23 in 1981 , compared with those children who were in the local authority sector at age 7 ( Social Trends 15 , Table 8.11 ; see also Jones , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | HOLIDAY camps in the country will resound this summer with the dulcet tones of a group of children from a school near Darlington . |
| 10 | I do not mean by that someone who stands in front of a class of children , but a person who is able to pass on wisdom and knowledge to others . |
| 11 | When your mother was sort of having a lot of a lot of children and and after you you know you you were growing up and she was still having children erm had you any idea of erm the processes by which all this was coming about ? |
| 12 | Clarke mainly lodged in London , directed the education of a brood of children , and left Chipley and the nursing of his constituency to the redoubtable Mary . |
| 13 | This concern has expressed itself not only in papers on children 's acquisition of literacy ( e.g. , Donaldson , 1984 , 1989 ) , but also in the publication of a number of children 's stories and of a reading and language programme for children in primary classrooms ( Reid and Donaldson , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | Early fits in a baby are one of a number of children 's disorders that we ca n't yet fully explain . |
| 15 | As they entered the salon , the two gunmen ran past a group of children on their way home from school . |
| 16 | They need constant attention , constant vigilance , like a nursery of children . |
| 17 | The car pulled up outside the house , and they walked to the door , still holding hands like a couple of children . |
| 18 | It sounded like a flock of children . |
| 19 | They ran like a group of children back to the house . |
| 20 | ‘ Unfortunately , like a lot of children , she started to blame herself . ’ |
| 21 | I mean it 's good for them learning to be amongst a lot of children and they soon learn that erm they ca n't have their way . |
| 22 | There is often considerable vocabulary used amongst a group of children engrossed in their threading activities which incorporates ideas of growth in length as well as naming colours and shapes of individual beads . |
| 23 | The Government suggestions , in principle , are for a system of Children 's Certificates to be granted by Licensing Justices but the Government invites comment as to whether food should merely be available or if children should only be admitted to certificated bars in order to eat a meal . |
| 24 | In the final chapter , Robin Campbell and David Olson offer a framework for a theory of children 's thinking and its development . |
| 25 | One day on the weary way up from school a truck stacked with furniture ground past Martha ; when she reached Nana 's house she found the truck stopped in the overgrown yard next door , and a fat woman in a pink dress buying soda pop for a brood of children who stood around her looking fearfully at their new home . |
| 26 | Then place a nearly-full pack of cards out on a table or , if you are performing this for a number of children , on a board with the cards lightly attached to it with scotch tape . |
| 27 | For example , the idea that a toy car rolls down a ramp until it runs out of push is discussed as a group of children play with toys . |
| 28 | If they were not actively asserting their authority they were taking a role of judge and referee as a consequence of children 's requests . |
| 29 | They passed a sulphur felucca with a crew of children . |
| 30 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |