Example sentences of "children have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letting the children have a go first can save time , because they may be right . |
| 2 | Involve the children in the selection of books for the library by asking the school 's library service or a book shop to regularly send along a large range of new titles on a sale or return basis and let the children have a say in what 's bought on their behalf . |
| 3 | Some people make a football party educational and hire out a hall and a soccer coach for children to have a party and be given advice on how to play the game . |
| 4 | During the summer the children had a treat when Mrs Johnson 's mother came over from Norway to visit the family . |
| 5 | From these studies , it was established that 24 children had a neuropathy ( mean age 4.4 years ) and six a myopathy ( mean age 3.2 years ) . |
| 6 | I wanted to ask her if I could run her errands before the other children had a chance . |
| 7 | The lists , he argued , would ensure that all children had a chance to read widely from some of the great literature of ‘ our literary heritage and those of other cultures ’ . |
| 8 | The Brontë children had a fantasy world , and C.S. Lewis and his brother . |
| 9 | At one school where children had a choice of meal there was an attractive menu on display and the food was put in heated containers so that the children could indicate what they wanted . |
| 10 | We children had a table to one side to ourselves on which were laid out bottles of pop , cakes , buns and bread and jam . |
| 11 | Infant teacher has it and asks me to make sure that the Head of Primary knows that one of the children had a fit on the bus this morning . |
| 12 | The children had a bag of homemade bricks , you know , all sawn up different blocks of wood and so they kept themselves amused with that . |
| 13 | The difference is particularly marked for cars and telephones ; more than 8 out of 10 two adult households with children have a car or a van compared to only 3 in 10 on adult households with children and whereas 9 in 10 of the two adult households with children have a telephone , this is true for only 6 in 10 of the one adult and children households |
| 14 | For information which was on the file , there were very different approaches to letting parents or children have a look . |
| 15 | Children have a knack of choosing the most inconvenient or embarrassing times for their Socratic dialogues . |
| 16 | The school children have a holiday if half term does not coincide in order to take part in the processions . |
| 17 | In this conversation , the children have a chance to reveal their own ideas . |
| 18 | Parents whose children have a handicap or disablement represent one such large group . |
| 19 | I think that , as children have a habit of doing , British social anthropologists and many of their French , Belgian and American colleagues rebelled against their colonial ‘ parents ’ . |
| 20 | The fishermen and their children have a habit of holding fish between their teeth to prevent their escape while searching for another . |
| 21 | I think the best possible way to bring up children is where there 's a father and mother provided the marriage is stable and balanced , cos the children have a role model from the father and the mother . |
| 22 | Our children have a right to know why we have Christmas and Easter , crosses on war memorials and a coronation service ; why the centre of every English village is a parish church ; and why English literature resonates with Biblical imagery . |
| 23 | Parents of children have a right to request a reassessment of their children ; the LEA must comply unless to do so would be ‘ unreasonable ’ ( in the case of children who are not statemented ) or ‘ inappropriate ’ and there has been no assessment in the previous six months ( in the case of statemented children ) . |
| 24 | Do n't poor children have a right to live and grow-up as anyone else ? |
| 25 | ‘ They should make it clear that corporal punishment is outmoded and that children have a right to be brought up in their own religion . |
| 26 | Chinese examples stress agricultural and military applications ; a Cuban textbook asks children to find ‘ the average monthly number of violations of Cuban air-space by North American airplanes ’ ; Russian children are asked about collective farms ; East German children have a similarity problem about a tower in Berlin and a bigger one in Moscow . |
| 27 | But modern children have a lot of facts and it 's the interpretation of facts and feelings that makes them civilised . ’ |
| 28 | But again we said , see , that er although British children have a lot of freedom , the rate of the success in marriage is n't that great , not very encouraging . |
| 29 | The difference is particularly marked for cars and telephones ; more than 8 out of 10 two adult households with children have a car or a van compared to only 3 in 10 on adult households with children and whereas 9 in 10 of the two adult households with children have a telephone , this is true for only 6 in 10 of the one adult and children households |
| 30 | It makes little sense , for example , to require that children have a command of formal vocabulary before they are competent in technical vocabulary or vice versa . |