Example sentences of "for the children [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a competition to find the Teddy with the most personality and lots of other attractions for the children during the day including a Punch & Judy Show , Wonky Wizard , story reading and of course the Great Western steam trains will be giving rides . |
| 2 | you go up along drive in and Newminster is on your left and Chantry is on your right , at , but I should imagine erm I should imagine that quite a lot of Chantry School children would be sent home because they 're for the children outside of Morpeth , you know they go there from |
| 3 | Their membership , mainly middle-class , have met considerable difficulty in trying to achieve their limited goals — integrated schooling for the children of those parents who wish it — though some of the membership in the early days were aiming at a total integration of the schooling system . |
| 4 | In Battalion Headquarters , the Welfare Officer was busy co-ordinating holidays for the children of soldiers Who have been killed by terrorists , when a call was received to say that the grave of a terrorist victim had been vandalised . |
| 5 | A simple , single school-room with an entrance porch on the east side , it catered for the children of Shawell and the surrounding villages until after World War I. It is significant that even such a simple building as this was not immune from the stylistic preferences of contemporary architects and the steeply pitched roof-slopes of the schoolroom are ‘ stratified ’ with bands of alternating plain and fish-scale pattern tiles in true ‘ High Victorian ’ fashion . |
| 6 | It 's a story of how five years of patience and understanding saw extraordinary achievements — both for us , and for the children of Vietnam . |
| 7 | But we knew what life was like for the children of Vietnam — and we were determined to see change . |
| 8 | As her reports started to come together , our excitement grew about what we could now achieve for the children of Vietnam . |
| 9 | No longer were our proposals for long term projects just reports on pieces of paper ; they were real — and not just for us , but for the children of Vietnam . |
| 10 | The children of this section of society were still , as already noted , subject to infant mortality rates at least twice as high as those for the children of the middle classes . |
| 11 | My father , the one scholar in a large family , had caught the eye of the village schoolmaster and been coached by oil-lamp in the evening for an examination offering access to that rare privilege for the children of the poor , a secondary-school education . |
| 12 | The will of Laurence Sheriffe , for example , who died in 1567 , allowed for the support of ‘ a free grammar school chiefly for the children of Rugby and Brownsover ’ . |
| 13 | As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level . |
| 14 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |
| 15 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 16 | And then it happened , the miracle of miracles , comparable to the opening of the Red Sea for the Children of Israel . |
| 17 | The day after that , a man came in and very loudly said that he had no time for God , but he wanted a colouring book for the children of his Greek neighbours , to show his acceptance of them . |
| 18 | Local residents also placed a skull and crossbones sign on the gate leading to the dump site with the slogan ‘ This site is a graveyard for the children of Ringaskiddy ’ . |
| 19 | A deeper allegiance than his love for the children of the Anglo-Irish landlord he had worked for since he was a homeless lad knocking at the kitchen door to ask for a cup of tea and an odd job . |
| 20 | If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents . |
| 21 | Tethlis 's heart was filled with a terrible cold hatred for the children of Naggaroth , for they had slain his family in one of their many raids . |
| 22 | Edmonds defines effective schooling in terms of enabling children from economically impoverished backgrounds to acquire those ‘ basic school skills that now describe minimally successful pupil performance for the children of the middle class ’ . |
| 23 | I do not have anything personal against the three men but I think it is an unmitigated disaster for the children of our country . |
| 24 | Abandoned air-raid shelters became improvised and treacherous playgrounds for the children of the blitz . |
| 25 | However , what is altogether remarkable is the way in which these rough working-class youths who donned Ted suits in the 1950s , and slicked back their hair in a greasy imitation of Elvis Presley , could be mistaken for the children of the ‘ affluent society ’ . |
| 26 | After the 1740s children 's books included part works for the children of the poor . |
| 27 | Requests to Edward VI in June 1552 included relief for the children of the Earl of Surrey , executed in 1547 ; fee-farms for the King 's cofferer , Mr Chitterwood of the Privy Chamber , Dr Leyson , Sir Thomas Dacre , and Sir Ralph Bagenal ; 200 for Sir Nicholas le Strange ; and a pardon to John Smallwood for inadvertent manslaughter . |
| 28 | Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide . |
| 29 | ANDES headquarters were returned and the ministry opened a grants programme for the children of the 33 teachers assassinated the previous year . |
| 30 | The final separation may mean an agony of divided loyalty for the children of the marriage or it may spell relief from intolerable tensions which have developed over a long period . |