Example sentences of "children are [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some children are chatting across the desks whilst working unsupervised in their project folders , a few others are constructing a ‘ trolley ’ and making table-tennis bats in the craft room and another group is involved in another classroom in a range of art activities . |
| 2 | To make sure that children are reading by the age of seven , we will create a national Reading Standards Programme , with a national Reading Recovery Programme to help those in difficulty . |
| 3 | Providing support generally in a class where most children are struggling with the work , discouraged or disaffected . |
| 4 | However , the report says that a high percentage of children are working in the UK , many illegally . |
| 5 | Many secondary teachers are worried about it because they say ‘ The children are coming into the secondary school having perhaps used computers and we ca n't offer them computing for two or three years , erm you know and they 're going to be very frustrated , erm and so perhaps they should n't go into primary ’ . |
| 6 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 7 | Choose a quiet time for training , avoiding periods when you have visitors , for example , or children are playing in the vicinity , as these will be distracting . |
| 8 | Do I know that my children are playing in the garden at home ? |
| 9 | This new notion of defeasibility seems to allow ( probably ) that I now know that my children are playing in the garden , because the second added truth negates the defeating powers of the first . |