Example sentences of "children [vb base] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practical arrangements by which husband , wife and children combine to form a household . |
| 2 | While it is difficult to prove that cigarette advertising encourages children to start smoking , children tend to smoke the brands that are promoted most heavily and advertising reinforces the smoking habit [ 6 ] . |
| 3 | Not only that : benefits for children tend to confirm the link between biological mothering and social mothering . |
| 4 | Because Save the Children want to lay the foundations for a better future . |
| 5 | Young children appear to acquire a " grammar " of story comparatively early and are able to deal with the sequencing with reasonable success — i.e. the initial events are sequenced initially in the text and so on . |
| 6 | In each lexical domain , children appear to make the same assumption : newly acquired words contrast with those already known . |
| 7 | Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together . |
| 8 | But by the age of 18 months children seem to have a relatively clear understanding of the actions over which they have direct control and the events in the material world which they can influence only indirectly via their actions or the actions of other people . |
| 9 | Sometimes children like to list the names of the members of their family and in this way we can help them to count how many there are , and help them to remember to include themselves in the count ! |
| 10 | There is a key " branching " decision being made in the drama described above — when the children decide to accept the coming of the railway , or turn it away . |
| 11 | It is interesting to trace the different ways in which these children attempt to synthesise the text , both of them with a basis of good oral reading . |
| 12 | Children love to feed the fish , but you must make sure they understand the importance of giving the right amount . |
| 13 | One method of investigating this area has centred on the time which children take to give the answer to a range of simple sums . |
| 14 | The aim of the research is to find out how children come to comprehend the requirements of effective verbal communication and the causes of communication failure . |
| 15 | Parents , teachers and those professionals around deaf children need to understand the significance of sign language development and its emergence from what , in the past , they have often classified as playground gestures . |
| 16 | We believe in partnership with parents , choice in schools and a good grounding in the basic skills all children need to make a success of their lives . |
| 17 | Young children need to experience the ideas through their play . |
| 18 | Little children need to starve no more as I would give them a big food store . |
| 19 | Sometimes children need to break the conspiracy of silence . |
| 20 | The simplest form of reading is often thought to be children ‘ looking at pictures ’ , but children need to bring a number of skills to the task of reading picture-books if they are to read the pictures with understanding . |
| 21 | As autumn approaches , those of us with children have to leave the relaxed , informal and often cold and damp atmosphere of the pub garden in search of those few pubs which admit children somewhere within their four walls . |
| 22 | Of particular importance in this connection is the ability children have to derive the structural regularities of their native language — its grammatical rules — from the utterances of their parents and others around them , and then to make use of the same regularities in the construction of utterances they have never heard before . |
| 23 | The head attempted to explain to Mrs Singh how children have to learn the initial sounds of words and how having two languages can impede this . |
| 24 | Currently the most widely known ( and also most widely criticized ) theory on the subject is that of Noam Chomsky who has pointed out that , although children have to learn the meanings of individual words from their elders ( which would make language a phenomenon of culture ) , they seem to know how to string words together so as to distinguish sense from nonsense long before they have acquired any substantial vocabulary . |
| 25 | For a later game , give cards out and the children have to find the people who had their number . |
| 26 | All children have to develop a concept of safety and an ability to cope with the hazards which exist in that environment . |
| 27 | Children have to extract the necessary information from these passages in order to complete a page of enjoyable activities in the accompanying Workbook . |
| 28 | The school was the last to close in 1968 and now primary school children have to make a four mile return journey to Middleton-on-the-Wolds . |
| 29 | At this point the children have to make a decision . |
| 30 | The children have to make a decision about using the magic , they have to think when would be a good time to use it and when would be harmful . |