Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] children [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 Teachers as the main providers of response to children 's writing need to become better readers . |
| 2 | The picture around the country for local authorities is one of reduction in children 's services . ’ |
| 3 | Lots of readers have written in complaining about the lack of uniformity in children 's clothes sizes . |
| 4 | The incorporation of higher levels of exercise into children 's life-style seems to be an important preventive factor for the future ( Spence 1986 ) . |
| 5 | But this will need constant nurturing if it is to develop into an appreciation of the richness of poetry , where words are ‘ alive with a plurality of meanings from their contexts , their associations and their sensory qualities ; they are alive with what Ted Hughes calls ‘ the goblin in a word'' ’ ( this quotation is from Michael Benton 's essay on ‘ The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning ’ , from the NATE book Lessons in English Teaching and Learning [ 1988 ] ) ( p. 148 ) . |
| 6 | As Michael Benton puts it in The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning : ‘ The development of a methodology that is based upon informed concepts of reading and response rather than upon conventional , narrowly-conceived ideas of comprehension and criticism is now the priority ’ ( p. 150 ) . |
| 7 | For the record , Rutter and I now appear to be essentially in agreement on the lead-in-petrol hazard , and in accepting that the effects of lead on children 's intelligence is real . |
| 8 | Research has also raised doubts about the role of imitation in children 's learning of language . |
| 9 | The 20-page revised document , Guidance on Possible Forms of Control in Children 's Residential Care , describes forms of permissible restraint , including holding a child 's arm or holding the child against a wall , but says such force should never be used punitively and should reflect the needs of individual situations . |
| 10 | PNP policy was embedded in the broader framework of Authority-thinking about children 's needs , the curriculum , teaching strategies , classroom practice , school management and home-school relationships . |
| 11 | However the emergence of anti-heroes like Billy Bunter , the demotion of romance to children 's literature , are obvious consequences of the Western world 's fifteen-hundred-year long climb down the ladder of literary modes . |
| 12 | From each country 's findings , Bjornsson derived a lix score which seemed to represent " normal difficulty " from a range of material including children 's books , factual prose ( written for non-specialists ) and technical literature . |
| 13 | These points have been recognised in a practical way by the existing UK tax structure , for example the zero rate of VAT on children 's clothing . |
| 14 | The threat of VAT on children 's clothes or food did not emerge . |
| 15 | In spite of the uncertainty expressed in the HMI survey quoted above , the impression from the questionnaires was that substantially more activity took place on primary than secondary courses ( though we should point out that HMI considered in their survey that secondary teachers had better ‘ assimilated the importance of language in children 's learning ’ in their training than primary teachers — DES , 1987 : 119 ) . |
| 16 | Obscenities have a kind of magic in children 's circles and they can be certain of raising shrieks of laughter from their friends , just by saying them aloud . |