Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Yssgaroth are a story to frighten children . ’ |
| 2 | a ‘ cross-curricular ’ view focuses on the school : it emphasises that all teachers ( of English and of other subjects ) have a responsibility to help children with the language demands of different subjects on the school curriculum : otherwise areas of the curriculum may be closed to them . |
| 3 | products and I think we all agree that we do have a responsibility to protect children . |
| 4 | I think it 's a privilege to have children , it 's a tremendous duty but I 'm concerned about the children . |
| 5 | Erm , from there I 've erm , worked for four years , I 've taken erm , a break to have children . |
| 6 | ‘ It is a pleasure to serve children , ’ she wrote . |
| 7 | The company provided a coach to bring children back to this country . |
| 8 | In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ . |
| 9 | A FARMER has launched a campaign to make children ‘ think green ’ and learn about the countryside and environment . |
| 10 | But in fact every creative and inventive and imaginative activity ( including that of inventing new tools ) is better done with the help of ‘ technology ’ , and so a failure to familiarize children at school with the use of such technology inhibits their imaginative potential , as well as making them incompetent and virtually unemployable when they leave school . |
| 11 | Erm but then again , if anybody 's got any kiddies , which I have , it 's not it 's not a Well I do n't reckon it it is a place to bring children up in . |
| 12 | parenthood , for example yo before the capabilities of reproductive technology became available nobody sat down and questioned whether we had a right to have children or not , whether it was a responsibility , a right or whatever , I mean it 's it 's very ironic that we 've actually thrown ourselves into a realm where we have to consider all these fundamental things about human behaviour and human nature |
| 13 | In the nineteenth century there was a need to protect children from exploitation by parents as juvenile labour . |
| 14 | As we have seen , current educational thinking tends to dismiss the idea of ‘ reading readiness ’ , but there is a need to show children the benefits , the rewards , and the access reading gives to information , knowledge , and entertainment . |
| 15 | He thanked Laurent-Perrier for their generous award , and said it would be spent in building the ‘ Laurent-Perrier Hide ’ to overlook the wild fowl area , and to be used as a classroom to educate children in wild game , wild flower and butterfly conservation . |
| 16 | Something of our individuality is swept away by it , and a reluctance to have children can often have its roots in this fear . |
| 17 | I would hope that if the hospitals in England keep the offer open there may still be a chance to get children back . |
| 18 | Now her family is setting up a charity to help children facing similar difficulties . |
| 19 | Where the risk is considered too serious for the children to remain in their family , they have a duty to provide alternative care , in foster homes or other forms of residential care ( and there is a duty to monitor children 's safety and well-being in these situations also ) . |
| 20 | Local authorities have a duty to accommodate children in certain circumstances and a power to do so in others . |
| 21 | There are four main explanations for the failure of this machinery for cooperation , and for the conflicts and dissensions that often emerge between the different agencies and organisations with a duty to protect children : |
| 22 | For example , a duty to have children , or to limit the number of children one has , a duty not to send children to a private school , or to do so , a duty not to use private health services , or to do so . |
| 23 | Whirlow Hall Farm , not far from Dore , is run by a trust to provide children and young people from the inner cities with farm experience . |
| 24 | In his view , they should be able to undertake more thorough investigations and be placed in a position to ask children and parents about their plans for the future . |
| 25 | 16 local authorities paid an average of £40,000 a year to send children to the school , aged between 6 and 13 . |