Example sentences of "on the children [unc] " in BNC.

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1 They also produced ‘ LORNA DOONE ’ with Clive Owen , and are now working on a series based on the children 's classic ‘ THE BORROWERS ’ and a major drama series adapted from Armistead Maupin 's cult novels ‘ TALES OF THE CITY ’ .
2 Now essentially this also relies on the children 's using their imaginations to find answers — as in the case of the ‘ sewer ’ and the ‘ Lost Valley ’ contexts — but the difference is that ( a ) each ‘ find ’ is given due weight and attention , is publicly shared , evaluated , accepted or rejected , ( b ) the focus within which their imaginations can have free range is defined from the beginning , i.e. the puzzle is clear — ‘ what could be a logical solution ? ’ is the name of the game , and ( c ) the problem-solving does not have to be hurried by action .
3 Nahum was content to let his wife do the local visiting , and reports on the children 's welfare came regularly from the inspector , so there was little required of him in Chertsey .
4 An example of this type in lead , dated 1648 , rests on the children 's shelf in the De La Warr vault , but of greater interest are three wooden versions .
5 Perhaps , I muse counting bunnies on the children 's wallpaper , those outraged viewers ' calls might finally persuade the BBC to exorcise Parky from its schedules .
6 The family were nearing Cork on their way home from a holiday in England and Wales — during which they called on the children 's grandparents in Milton Keynes .
7 Little is known about the effect of different care settings on the children 's education though the fact that many foster parents and residential staff have had limited educational opportunities themselves may influence them in the importance they attach to the children 's success in school .
8 Grantham Hospital chiefs were last night being asked why they did not notice symptoms of the syndrome in Allitt before she started on the children 's ward .
9 Earlier yesterday , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley instructed the authority to set up an independent inquiry to look into the circumstances surrounding Allitt 's killing spree on the children 's ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital .
10 The Commons row took place against the background of a report compiled by Trent Regional Health Authority on the children 's ward where Allitt worked , denounced as a ‘ whitewash ’ by Ms Alexander .
11 The effectiveness of the micro in simulating experiments hinges on the children 's accepting the analogy with the true experimental situation .
12 The self-supporting framework builds on the children 's existing collective resources : their knowledge and experience , their social relationships , their capacity to support and stimulate one another through shared interests and concerns .
13 Whatever effect this has on the children 's futures as clerks , it maims creative instinct .
14 Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire .
15 A common device was to ask large numbers of token questions ( or pseudo-questions ) which gave the illusion of educational dialogue without making any demands at all on the children 's skills .
16 on the Children 's tape , although the first sentence inside makes it clear that it 's a leaflet for children/young people .
17 So where does a curriculum based on the children 's own interests start now , I asked myself .
18 The impact of using microPROLOG on the children 's thinking and problem solving in other domains is also being examined .
19 Articles were placed in the press chronicling the joys of country life ( and — as will be shown — fruitless attempts were made to demonstrate that the rural environment was having a positive effect on the children 's health ) ; talks were given on the radio to parents ; special posters were printed ; and it was arranged for the Queen to visit certain schools in November to publicise the scheme .
20 The implication in the complaints of many hosts that urban working-class life was degrading was further refuted by the evidence of the effect of evacuation on the children 's health .
21 Official despair was summed up in a letter from Sir Edward Howarth , Director of the National Camps Corporation ( which ran the schools ) to N. D. Bosworth Smith of the Board of Education , on 13 August 1942 ; Howarth had just read the latest report on the children 's growth rates and commented :
22 The complaint concerns the ‘ dangerous nature of the gate on the children 's playground in Scorton .
23 while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck .
24 The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped .
25 In reporting on the children 's work he noted this : If any society wanted to perpetuate notions of female fickleness and the importance of accepting the proprietorial bias of moral authority , then here is a tale for the purpose .
26 The cleaner water supply has dram dramatic effects on the children 's health .
27 He likes a staff nurse on the children 's ward .
28 A special edition of With Great Pleasure invites locally-born writer Wally K Daly , currently working on the children 's TV drama series Byker Grove , with his own selection of poetry and prose , on Wednesday at Stockton Parish Church .
29 Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks .
30 They showed , that was on the children 's thing where they do the toys .
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