Example sentences of "children have a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one school where children had a choice of meal there was an attractive menu on display and the food was put in heated containers so that the children could indicate what they wanted . |
| 2 | The children had a bag of homemade bricks , you know , all sawn up different blocks of wood and so they kept themselves amused with that . |
| 3 | Children have a knack of choosing the most inconvenient or embarrassing times for their Socratic dialogues . |
| 4 | I think that , as children have a habit of doing , British social anthropologists and many of their French , Belgian and American colleagues rebelled against their colonial ‘ parents ’ . |
| 5 | The fishermen and their children have a habit of holding fish between their teeth to prevent their escape while searching for another . |
| 6 | But modern children have a lot of facts and it 's the interpretation of facts and feelings that makes them civilised . ’ |
| 7 | But again we said , see , that er although British children have a lot of freedom , the rate of the success in marriage is n't that great , not very encouraging . |
| 8 | It makes little sense , for example , to require that children have a command of formal vocabulary before they are competent in technical vocabulary or vice versa . |