Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her antiseptic presence transformed Mr Sunderland 's office into a place where children were condemned not to the cane or detention but to threadworms or impetigo or a terrible weakness of the chest that could only be treated in some distant sanatorium . |
| 2 | Piaroaland is almost free of all forms of physical violence , a place where children , teenagers , and adults alike never express anger through physical means . |
| 3 | It should provide a place where children can meet and talk with adults who live in and serve the local community — the fireman , the nurse , the secretary , the shopkeeper , the police officer , the craftsman and craftswoman . |
| 4 | Tom Stonier has envisaged a scenario where children learn at home , guided by technology and grandparents and go to school for socialization . |
| 5 | Competing models entail different classroom practices : ‘ A classroom where children spend considerable time copying letters beneath the teacher 's clear print runs on assumptions about learning which are very different from those of a classroom where children write independently , inventing letter shapes and spellings ’ ( National Writing Project 1989 ) . |
| 6 | Competing models entail different classroom practices : ‘ A classroom where children spend considerable time copying letters beneath the teacher 's clear print runs on assumptions about learning which are very different from those of a classroom where children write independently , inventing letter shapes and spellings ’ ( National Writing Project 1989 ) . |
| 7 | This has now become a day when children are given sweets , titbits and fruit . |
| 8 | More importantly still , Conventionality and Contrast together offer a mechanism whereby children can eliminate their overregularizations . |
| 9 | The University Day Nursery is a centre where children are cared for while their parents are engaged in studies or other University duties . |
| 10 | Elaine , a 16-year-old girl who has spent most of her life on the streets of Rio de Janeiro , in Brazil , puts it better : ‘ I dream of a better world , a world where children and adults are no longer abandoned , tortured and murdered because of who we are or what we do … |
| 11 | Gill and Jackson had the ideal opportunity to demonstrate how the phenomenon of identity confusion could be understood through the process of racial discrimination in society , a path whereby children of minority groups tend to internalise the values of the dominant society , and internalise derogatory values about themselves . |
| 12 | I have yet to visit a country where children are not stereotyped to some extent — by class , social background , race , culture , colour , sex . |
| 13 | It was a time when children were encouraged to fantasize about machines and outer space rather than marvel at the open spaces where the deer and buffalo roamed . |
| 14 | Of course the primary years mark a time when children must master language . |
| 15 | THERE was a time when children 's books in Welsh were drab and uninteresting , but that is no longer the case . |