Example sentences of "their parents ' [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 2 | Prior to World War I , a majority of spinsters faced an often lonely and marginal life in their parents ' home or in the households of a male relative . |
| 3 | The ultimate in the clean break philosophy was the shipping of thousands of deprived children to Canada and Australia , ‘ not all of them orphans and not always with their parents ' knowledge or consent ’ . |
| 4 | They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent . |
| 5 | People belonged to their parents ' jati and automatically followed the occupation of the jati into which they were born . |
| 6 | Two of these 56 children are not included in the analyses ; both died in the early 1970s shortly after having non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed , and we were unable to verify their parents ' names or dates of birth . |
| 7 | Students , who tend to the left , can choose whether to register in their parents ' homes or where they live in term time . |
| 8 | Symbolic and tangible rewards ( praise , encouragement , a hug — the sort of ‘ rewards ’ that psychologists call ‘ positive reinforcers ’ ) regulate behaviour Children are likely to be willing to obey distasteful rules because they wish to have their parents ' approval or avoid their disapproval . |