Example sentences of "parents [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is usually a very popular event as parents want to see their own children involved in something special . |
| 2 | Parents like to see the headteacher 's initials on their child 's reading card , they appreciate that the head is taking a personal interest in their child 's progress and keeping a general eye on activities in classrooms . |
| 3 | Cultural and social factors are more pervasive when parents like to see a fat child . |
| 4 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
| 5 | By undertaking mathematical activities themselves , and through discussion with members of staff , parents began to see that there was an alternative , and viable , view of mathematics . |
| 6 | Even if your parents did see Maria Whittaker in the buff , they would n't be able to recognise the blobby mess as human , let alone a nude woman ! |
| 7 | I gathered that her parents had seen only that Laura was losing touch with reality . |
| 8 | Parents wish to see not just how their child is doing but how he or she is doing when related to a grading benchmark . |
| 9 | The organisation of our course recognizes the fact that our school population is of above average ability , and that our pupils and their parents wish to see real progress being made . |
| 10 | By contrast , in D v NSPCC ( 1976 ) parents wished to see a report which alleged that they had injured their child . |
| 11 | In part it involved differences in perceptions about the boundaries of people 's work and what they contributed : in general , professionals and parents tended to see themselves as concerned with the young person and their life as a whole , but they saw others as being restricted in their work and concerned only with limited aspects of the young person . |