Example sentences of "that many parents " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other surveys have found that many parents , especially those who use public transport , do not want to turn children into commuters , dragging them to a workplace nursery every day . |
| 2 | For this reason , amongst others , it may be anticipated that many parents of children who truant will , at the end of the day , continue to be dealt with in punitive fashion . |
| 3 | It has to be said that many parents themselves share this view . |
| 4 | The major difficulty , of course , is that many parents feel so remorseful after punishing their child , or after losing their temper , that they are sorely tempted to ‘ make up ’ to the child , with anything from contrite fussing to extra treats . |
| 5 | A surprising amount of liberty is granted to something that many parents do n't quite trust , and whose ‘ activities ’ tend to go unsupervised . |
| 6 | I think that many parents want to think that the first parents are irrelevant , and I am sure that this is a mistake . |
| 7 | He or she may — and probably will — possess a more subtle view of ‘ professionalism ’ than the capacity to deliver examination results , but at the same time it is well known that many parents and politicians see those results as the crucial way by which schools account for their success or failure . |
| 8 | The fact remains , however , that many parents , especially first-time parents , although motivated to help their children , have no idea what to do . |
| 9 | The most worrying aspect of all , for Corby , however , was that many parents felt they were kept in the dark about what was happening , so that while there were exceptions , and in some cases social workers had gone to great lengths to explain the system and the likely outcomes , in two cases the parents were not aware until later in the process that they and their children were the subjects of child abuse investigations . |
| 10 | Now I 'm aware that many parents bring their children for baptism from reasons of superstition or custom or anything you like I 'm reminded of a certain tax gatherer who , inspired by sheer idle curiosity , climbed a tree curiosity maybe took him up the tree but it was the grace of God that brought him down . |
| 11 | Those of us who were privileged to hear Paddy Ladd 's moving account of the struggles and pride of the deaf community at last year 's International Conference in Bristol , England , will long remember his response to a challenge from the floor that many parents regarded the birth of their deaf children as tragedies . |
| 12 | This is something that many parents also find difficult to accept in their daughters . |
| 13 | But but in in just the little few words you used then , I would have thought that many parents in this church would react positively . |
| 14 | It might also be argued that despite recent legislation ( some would say because of it ) parent-teacher relations are still too often fraught with fear , suspicion and misunderstanding ; that there is still too much teacher stereotyping of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ homes and parents ; and that many parents still lack power in relation to their parental rights and responsibilities . |
| 15 | Their refusal to face the fact that many parents do want to have more say in how schools are run . |
| 16 | We carefully considered that issue , and I agree that many parents would have been reluctant to allow their children to serve with the armed forces at such a young age if homosexuality had been allowed . |
| 17 | Allegations were rife : evacuees complained of cruel and miserly hosts ; hosts maintained that many parents had deliberately sent children off in their worst clothes in order to arouse sympathy and gifts of replacement clothing . |
| 18 | My Lords , is my Noble Friend aware that many parents and teachers who have been deeply dissatisfied and disillusioned by local education authority schools in fact just set up their own new schools which are providing excellent education and really meeting those parental wishes , often with very strong er spiritual and moral values . |
| 19 | The poll results suggest that many parents still fail to understand the grant-maintained system . |
| 20 | And we found that many parents were inclined to believe these kinds of reports , and yet this just was n't true if one saw what was going on in the schools . |