Example sentences of "of children " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plight of children infected with HIV was recently highlighted by Princess Diana when she presented a report by the National Children 's Bureau to a London conference on the impact of AIDS on family life . |
| 2 | One of the saddest aspects of AIDS is the plight of children infected with HIV . |
| 3 | Two out of five ACET clients in Scotland are women and therefore we anticipate an increase in the number of children needing care . |
| 4 | They appeared in his novel of 1960 , Take a girl like you , in which Patrick gives freezing looks , and a group of children wears the ‘ expression of being proud of being serious , like some famous author photographed in the Radio Times ’ . |
| 5 | Grounds for the bishops ' opposition were that only parents and not the state should have the right to provide for the health of their children , that the state had no role to play in the physical education of children and mothers , and that individual privacy would be threatened by public use of their private health records ( Whyte 1980 : 213–14 ) . |
| 6 | But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge . |
| 7 | Up until the late 1970s , 98 per cent of children raised in Northern Ireland experienced schooling only on their own side of the divide ( Darby , et al . |
| 8 | Sounds of children playing round corners . |
| 9 | That night I lay awake , listening to the sound of children crying and thinking hard about the position that I myself was now in . |
| 10 | Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension . |
| 11 | Often vehicles are provided for the use of children or other non-drivers . |
| 12 | I have tested literally hundreds of children on conservation tasks over a period of twenty years and have confirmed ( to my own satisfaction at least ) that fundamentally — in terms of the central systems — one does not succeed in drawing their attention to non-salient features . |
| 13 | Thameslink was formally inaugurated by HRH The Princess Royal on 25 April , when she combined its formal launch with that of Save the Children Week and travelled with a number of children on unit 319036 to Crystal Palace . |
| 14 | What is needed is a relaxation of the law as it now stands to allow the controlled admission of children to certain pubs at certain times of day . |
| 15 | I am not proposing a free-for-all , but the admission of children to certain pubs on the application of the licensee and the approval of the local licensing bench . |
| 16 | ‘ In the first category we have criminal cases , judicial review and cases which involve matrimonial status and the welfare of children or those under a disability . |
| 17 | It was vital to take account of children 's cognitive and emotional responses when evaluating their evidence . |
| 18 | The limit for first-year infants classes will be 27 and for classes of children of mixed ages , 24 . |
| 19 | Allan Ahlberg says : ‘ In the past , a lot of children 's books seemed to be the work of talented illustrators whose pictures looked brilliant framed in a gallery , but when you tried to read the book , there was nothing there , because the words started as a coat-hanger to hang pictures on . ’ |
| 20 | Although they are a principled pair — they once turned down the Smarties Award on moral grounds — the Ahlbergs reject the notion of children 's author as moralist . |
| 21 | Autumn — Action Now ! contains horrific pictures of children in agony , car crashes caused by skids on leaves and Fred Astaire . |
| 22 | By 11 , the majority of children were hit less than once a month or never . |
| 23 | The report has been published by Approach ( the Association to Protect All Children Ltd ) , a new charity linked to Epoch ( End Physical Punishment of Children ) , a national campaign which was launched in April . |
| 24 | For someone like me with a lot of children it would be like running a penal colony . |
| 25 | She says : ‘ Smacking is a way of educating the aggressive instincts of children . |
| 26 | Our concentration has got to be on the teaching and on the stretching of children . |
| 27 | Friendships have been sundered , mothers have heckled one other in the street and schoolfriends have been separated in the row which has involved the withdrawal of scores of children from the Lady Jane Grey School in Groby , a commuter village near Leicester . |
| 28 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 29 | A Home Office Advisory Working Group , chaired by Judge Pigot , on the question of children 's evidence will report imminently and is expected to recommend that children as young as four or five should be allowed to give evidence if a judge rules that they are competent . |
| 30 | Adoption is pursued as an option for an increasing number of children in care . |