Example sentences of "children [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her imagination conjured up a vision of the young , ambitious Lucenzo , struggling to study for his banking exams and to stay smart amid the chaos caused when a wife and several children lived in a cramped apartment . |
| 2 | Tiny Andrew Morrison , who was born nine weeks early at the Countess of Chester Hospital , is among 481 children treated by a junior doctor who has since been found to be suffering from TB . |
| 3 | I believe that increasingly with modern communications , the interests of children reared in a rural environment may be as diverse as those from urban areas . |
| 4 | We now had to keep the children confined to a thin corridor of safety , hemmed in as they were both by insects and reptiles . |
| 5 | Black children react in a certain way because they feel they are being picked on , and because they react badly then further reaction follows . |
| 6 | The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class . |
| 7 | Finally , there are ‘ authority constraints ’ ; for example , free school transport may not be available to children living within a certain distance of school ; or opening hours may be mis-matched with the timings of public transport , rendering the services effectively inaccessible to users dependent on public transport . |
| 8 | One DHAC member had discovered John Wilson , his wife and two children living in a small caravan in the Brandywell . |
| 9 | Clare went immediately to pay the bill for the stone , and set out towards Shaston , where he found Mrs Durbeyfield and her children living in a small house . |
| 10 | They may not be deliberately malicious , just children looking for a little adventure , but soon windows are smashed and the doors forced open . |
| 11 | These were the kind of difficulties facing Helen Hallworth when she and her three teenage children moved from a large , elegant house into a smaller country cottage in a pretty village near York . |
| 12 | As the depôt was near the ‘ Robin Hood ’ , in the mornings , one would often see drivers ' small children waiting with a blue enamelled jug of steaming tea and sandwiches in a red handkerchief , for their father 's breakfast . |
| 13 | Seesaws and swingboats both lead to estimation of weight as children look for a comfortable partner . |
| 14 | The drama itself also benefits from this approach : writing in role slows the drama down in a very productive fashion , encouraging children to look at a particular situation in much greater depth than they would otherwise . |
| 15 | Should one affected child be born , the recurrence rate can again be high ; children born with a neural tube malformation ( including anencephalus and spina bifida ) can be detected by screening and the recurrence rate is about one in 20 . |
| 16 | The data used in these analyses are provided from two longitudinal British surveys of all children born in a particular week of 1958 and 1970 . |
| 17 | Children raised in a middle-class family in which the parents and grandparents were university-educated are likely to be brought up in an environment in which reading and learning are stressed and going to university is encouraged . |
| 18 | Children get at a loose end . ’ |
| 19 | The two children retired to a nearby bench where Richard ceremoniously selected the largest and reddest strawberries for his companion . |
| 20 | On 27th November , 1847 , the emigrant ships Phillip Lang and John Wickliffe sailed from Greenock with 247 Scottish men , women and children bound for a new way of life in New Zealand . |
| 21 | What had started as a ‘ new look ’ language course began to be seen as a new approach to teaching children based on a new and popular medium — English . |
| 22 | This paper stressed the need to make plans for children based on a realistic assessment of whether or not rehabilitation with the natural family is possible and to consider the purpose of parental contact and its effects on the child . |
| 23 | A batch of children accompanied by a young woman and the billeting officer who had brought Willie had walked past them and were heading towards the Town Hall . |
| 24 | Concern for the safety of young children resulted in a massive scheme to evacuate children from the vulnerable cities to safe homes in more isolated country areas . |
| 25 | Although many children go through a stammering stage when they 're learning to speak , most pass through this phase and have no further problems . |
| 26 | Births to women with 4 or 5 previous children fell by a precipitous 77 per cent and even third and further births were down by almost half ( 49 per cent ) . |
| 27 | He felt that the transition from junior to senior school was difficult enough without making the children go to a different teacher for every subject , so the three first-year forms had their own class teacher for maths , English , scripture , history or geography ( one teacher took one or the other for two classes ) and science . |
| 28 | The senator fell into step beside me while some of Bonefish 's smaller children followed at a safe distance . |
| 29 | In part two : Top of the form … the blind children succeeding in a sighted world . |
| 30 | The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation . |