Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] well as children " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its high technology appeals to parents as well as children , and it was relatively cheap to build . |
| 2 | Thus , in this view parents as well as children tend to appear as victims and , in particular , working-class parents are seen as vulnerable and powerless vis-à-vis statutory agencies . |
| 3 | A lot of travelling is involved and a lot of dedication from parents as well as children . |
| 4 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that their middle-class respondents almost always named grandchildren as well as children as being part of their close family . |
| 5 | It was far out of the reach of grown-ups as well as children , except that Jasper did not really think anything was out of his reach . |
| 6 | Women 's caring responsibilities frequently include the welfare of male partners as well as children . |
| 7 | Perhaps familiarity breeds contempt — among teachers as well as children . |
| 8 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |