Example sentences of "children are [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Alison and the children are thinking of you . ’ |
| 2 | The children are counting on it . |
| 3 | Some children are chatting across the desks whilst working unsupervised in their project folders , a few others are constructing a ‘ trolley ’ and making table-tennis bats in the craft room and another group is involved in another classroom in a range of art activities . |
| 4 | To make sure that children are reading by the age of seven , we will create a national Reading Standards Programme , with a national Reading Recovery Programme to help those in difficulty . |
| 5 | The company might perhaps be saying that , as happens throughout Britain , nursery children are drawing on waste computer paper . |
| 6 | Secret When the children are looking at their cards tell them to take one last look . |
| 7 | Providing support generally in a class where most children are struggling with the work , discouraged or disaffected . |
| 8 | And after losing the family home two weeks ago Angie , husband Bill and their other two children are living in one room at a bed and breakfast hotel . |
| 9 | A class of Year Five children are working on a project about Iron Age Britain . |
| 10 | The ‘ activity ’ is the name given to the longest unit , it relates to the mode in which the teacher and children are working at a particular point in the lesson . |
| 11 | However , the report says that a high percentage of children are working in the UK , many illegally . |
| 12 | Many secondary teachers are worried about it because they say ‘ The children are coming into the secondary school having perhaps used computers and we ca n't offer them computing for two or three years , erm you know and they 're going to be very frustrated , erm and so perhaps they should n't go into primary ’ . |
| 13 | Children are rushing around you know , all day . . |
| 14 | THE seconds are ticking away and thousands of children are heading for disaster . |
| 15 | If you or your children are turning to a vegetarian diet , Roselyn Masselin has lots of advice and recipes for the whole family . |
| 16 | Parents know what their children are longing for and will give them what they want , even if every piggy bank in the house has to be broken open . |
| 17 | The standardised testing of children aged seven and 14 , currently the focus of so much controversy in Britain , will at best tell parents and teachers how well children are doing at learning the facts and basic skills . |
| 18 | erm I think first you have to relate to so many teachers erm as a parent of a secondary school child , and this is obviously a much more complicated procedure and also I think parents , many parents feel that they know a little bit less about what their children are doing at school at the secondary stage , it 's all that little bit more advanced , that little bit more different perhaps from what they had in their own education . |
| 19 | This type of work , in which the children are playing at their roles , is frequently a necessary stage in the process of building commitment to the drama ; and it 's one which adults find as useful as children . |
| 20 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 21 | Choose a quiet time for training , avoiding periods when you have visitors , for example , or children are playing in the vicinity , as these will be distracting . |
| 22 | Do I know that my children are playing in the garden at home ? |
| 23 | This new notion of defeasibility seems to allow ( probably ) that I now know that my children are playing in the garden , because the second added truth negates the defeating powers of the first . |
| 24 | Julian Hopkins , national director of international relief agency CARE , who travelled with the Mirror team , said : ‘ To see that huge amount of food lying idle in Mogadishu while thousands of babies and young children are starving to death is an outrage . |
| 25 | In a letter to Hopkins on the Southampton situation dated 10 August 1911 , he wrote " all the reforms the Southampton people are asking for we discussed at the Executive Meeting before the strike took place and we were all agreed that certain alterations had to take place , but when women and children are starving in one port and there is money locked up in Southampton I think it is one of the most cruel tragedies imaginable " . |
| 26 | The results of the clarification request analysis summarized in Table 4.3 show that although the younger children are asking for more straightforward requests for repetition than the other age groups ( perhaps because they do not attend as well as the other subjects ) , there are no significant differences in the other categories . |
| 27 | He says that the children are responding to a need in themselves , and believes that many adults do n't make the time to slow down and think about what they really need . |
| 28 | ‘ The children are going to be page and bridesmaid . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Our children play out on the street and there 's a plan to build a school on land nearby surely we could n't have a busy road where children are going to school ? ’ |
| 30 | It 's almost always about the sort of fringe things that happen in schools , the not strictly educational erm organisational matters about when to bring bits of equipment and which day the term 's going to finish , but very few schools put much into writing about how they teach maths , or what the children are going to be doing that term as a topic . |