Example sentences of "expect children [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Throughout the Plowden Report runs the assumption that what is taught in schools ( ie what we , the adults expect children to learn ) must relate to where the child is ( intellectually , social , emotionally ) rather than to where we think the child ought to be . |
2 | Could one , Peters asked , expect children to learn in the somewhat haphazard fashion that unfettered child-centredness seemed to commend ? |
3 | He says there is flu in the community at this time of year so expect children to have flu symptoms . |
4 | He says there is flu in the community at this time of year so expect children to have flu symptoms . |
5 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
6 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
7 | However , bearing these caveats in mind , it is still reasonable to expect children to have made demonstrable progress along the developmental path when they reach key stages in the education system . |
8 | The parent will tend to recalibrate their response , as , as , as you have said , parents will come to expect children to make a lot of fuss about nothing , and consequently wo n't pay so much attention to a child 's distress as they would to an adult 's , because we regard it as natural , children to cry or make a fuss about the treatment we contribute , but the reason for that could be that we , we have as it were , readjusted our sensitivity to distress and we , we really have a double standard . |
9 | ‘ Society expects children to do something most adults would find terrifying — give details of the most intimate obscenities performed on them in front of court officials , the public and the media and often their abusers . |