Example sentences of "and children [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can afford an environmentally friendly G-registered runabout , then the flora , fauna and children of the British Isles will have a lot to thank you for . |
| 2 | The rising toll of unemployment was another alarming problem , involving as it naturally did the families and children of the unemployed man or woman as well . |
| 3 | In February and March it was hard going out almost nightly but he liked it and Joan got to know the wives and children of the clergy . |
| 4 | Costume and Fashion Centre ( Bath ) The centre was opened in 1974 and the collections deal with fashionable dress for men , women and children of the sixteenth to twentieth centuries . |
| 5 | The lower , parochial clergy seem often to have had wives and children ; but the ladies and children of the close , of whom Heloise herself had been one , become a thing of the past . |
| 6 | An American writer , Searles , wrote vividly about the importance of acknowledging strong , romantic feelings between parents and children of the opposite sex . |
| 7 | The adults and children of the family also learnt much of the Gospels and Psalms by heart , for , said Nicholas , ‘ Who knows how or where he shall be before he dies , suppose blind or in prison , and whether travelling on horseback , on foot or by sea , by reciting these passages he would have heavenly food and medicine with him . ’ |
| 8 | They care for the homes and children of the privileged white minority but often have no home of their own . |
| 9 | ‘ At the very least we owe it to the families of the dead and the wives and children of the soldiers . |
| 10 | What they do not tell , however , is the human dimension of the Pacific story — the human reasons behind the staggering growth of the region , the ways in which this virtuoso performance actually affects the lives of the men , women and children of the Pacific , and the ways in which the Pacific people are different in outlook , aspirations , fears and needs from those who live beyond the Ocean . |
| 11 | It follows , as some studies have revealed , that improvements in the environmental conditions that represent life hazards have a more favourable impact on survival chances of infants and children of the uneducated than of educated mothers , who are better able to neutralize the effects of adverse circumstances . |
| 12 | I pay tribute to people who have advised parents and children of the dangers of taking up smoking . |
| 13 | The head thought the young upstart was simply trying to put him off and clouted him , before ripping off his trousers to reveal a naked behind to an audience that included the mayor , and parents and children of the school . |
| 14 | This vehicle was chock-a-block with government munitions , hi-tech weapon systems , bags of sweets and Children of the Revolution . |
| 15 | woman and children of the third world , well that 's of today 's problem , what about they show you how it was created , it 's a problem of today |
| 16 | No more will they curse the need to haul luggage and children onto the London Underground and off at another station to catch their next train . |
| 17 | It is a pretence to set up a model of mother , father and children as the only acceptable form . ’ |
| 18 | " Responsible " men are men with responsibilities , homes , children and wives , and that moral code is written into social security regulations to enforce responsibility for women and children as the economic essence of masculinity . |
| 19 | In July 1972 I spent a whole afternoon discussing teaching and children with the headmaster of what corresponded roughly to a middle school . |
| 20 | Thus , overall level of national development of degree of urbanization may influence the relationship of mother 's residence to levels of health and mortality among infants and children below the age of five years and may account , in part , for some differences in patterns among countries that are noted below . |
| 21 | The WI were magnificent and provided thousands of lunches ; the Red Cross picked up the few casualties and stragglers ; and children along the route played welcome hosepipes on the passing riders . |
| 22 | This is payable for adults and children over the age of 2 . |
| 23 | The memorandum is designed to guide social workers , police and children through the difficult stage between local authority child protection and care systems and the criminal justice system and court process . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ The boat people , in order to make the operation more difficult , pushed their women and children to the front . ’ |
| 25 | Then changing the subject completely from milk and children to the necessity for a clean yard , he said , ‘ I know where I can get some broken slabs . |
| 26 | The finest Cycladic products of the time are huge jars decorated with figure-scenes not painted but in relief , the best from Mykonos with panels on the body showing warriors putting women and children to the sword : a savage view of the sack of Troy , as is made clear by the superb rendering on the neck of the Wooden Horse ( fig.10 ) . |
| 27 | Nisodemus glared at him as he went on , ‘ Now , we really should be sending some of the women and children to the — ’ |
| 28 | We are as anxious as anyone to provide good working conditions for public servants ; but would the public servants themselves honestly contend that working conditions during eight hours of the day should , in the present emergency , take priority over the living conditions of mothers and children for the whole twenty-four hours ? |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing in human experience has prepared men , women and children for the modern television techniques of fixing human attention and creating the uncritical mood required to sell goods , many of which are marginal at best to human needs ’ ( Bagdikian , 1989 , p.819 ) . |
| 30 | When I stayed with my husband and children at the Holcombe Hotel in Oxfordshire on the Great Escapes scheme this summer I was told I would get free accommodation as long as I stayed for two nights and paid for dinner and breakfast at a cost of £33.20 each per day . |