(1) At the schools, the bairns pour on to the van all excited, getting to choose their reading material.
(2) Whereas Ed Miliband offered working parents of three and four-year-olds in England 25 hours of free childcare a week if Labour wins the next general election, Salmond targeted families with very wee bairns.
(3) Moreover, your self-acknowledged callousness is surely due to fearfulness that if your man is ill there will be no more food on the table for you and your bairns.
(4) The on-screen CK is a beleaguered, if well-meaning, divorced dad, trying to raise his daughters to an ethical code but realising that such lofty goals are often thwarted by the fact that the bairns can be really, really annoying.
(5) Like a rich country fruit cake, Kidnapped is seasoned throughout with handfuls of dialect words, "ain" (one), "bairn" (child), "blae" (cheerless), "chield" (fellow), "drammach" (raw oatmeal), "fash" (bother), "muckle" (big), "siller" (money), "unco" (extremely) , "wheesht!"
(6) Women at traffic lights and stuck in jams have to make swift calculations as to whether they have time or not to feed their bairns before the cars ahead start rolling or the light switches to green, causing chaos when those judgments prove wrong.
(7) This was a sanitised Burns, though it was admitted that he liked a nip or two and that he fathered a few bairns out of wedlock.
(8) Newsquest, the paper’s owner, already has a couple of large, grown-up Scottish bairns in the shape of the Herald and Sunday Herald.
(9) Stunned by what I saw as control-freakery and barbarism I resolved to put my baby to my breast when she was hungry, and there she would fall into deep slumber, like a good little hunter-gatherer bairn.
(10) That for me was not your best performance I'm weepin' like a bairn!
Cairn
Definition:
(n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
(n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first site we explored was a big burial cairn in the shadow of Carn Menyn, where the Stonehenge bluestones come from."
(2) Cairn shot to prominence in the market in 2004 when it emerged that it had found huge reserves in Rajasthan, in India.
(3) Cairn's failures came in sharp contrast to Tullow Oil's success last week .
(4) The arrests of Luke Jones, from Leeds, and Hannah McHardy, from the US, end a 10-day long action by Greenpeace and its protest ship Esperanza against Cairn's drilling operations off Greenland.
(5) There are cycles in all of this – the reef regenerates itself,” he was quoted saying in the Cairns Post .
(6) Coral Sea Dreaming has 28 permitted sites, the largest number of any Cairns operator, “a pretty cool thing to be able to boast”, Zwick says.
(7) Cairn Energy was targeted by climate protesters who occupied the grounds of the Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters near Edinburgh last week .
(8) New Zealand: Stephen Fleming (captain), Craig McMillan, Nathan Astle, Scott Styris, Chris Cairns, Brendon McCullum, Jacob Oram, Chris Harris, Daniel Vettori, Shane Bond, Daryl Tuffey.
(9) Not only did city residents share the numbers, they were commenting on how shocking it was, Cairns says.
(10) However, the argument of a UN breach was unlikely to be aired before a Cairns magistrate as the Yidindji did not currently recognise the authority of the court, he said.
(11) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
(12) But on Monday Greenpeace switched its tactics from commando to panto in the Scottish capital as more than 60 campaigners, including dozens in polar bear suits, entered Cairn's offices near Edinburgh Castle.
(13) The equipment being used on the Delta and Gamma wells will move south to complete the rest of Cairn's exploration in Greenland.
(14) The sovereign Yidindji government was created by the tribal council of the Yidindji nation, a grouping of a dozen or so clans who speak the Yidin language and who hail from the areas in and around Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef in far northeast Queensland .
(15) At the Cairns meeting in September, G20 finance ministers committed to finalise the OECD’s 15-point Action Plan to counter BEPS by 2015.
(16) Abbott and Kevin Rudd are both in Queensland today, the Liberal leader in Brisbane and the Labor leader in Cairns, where he will talk about establishing a new National Centre for Extreme Weather to help Australia respond better to natural disasters.
(17) Plasmid replication proceeds through theta-shaped (Cairns) intermediates, terminating in multiply interlocked catenanes that are resolved during S phase to monomer plasmids.
(18) Cairn takes its responsibilities such as oil spill contingency and response plans very seriously.
(19) Both Cairns and rolling circle-type molecules were identified.
(20) The navy unit broke into the pod just before midnight, four days after the two activists began their occupation of the drilling platform of Leiv Eiriksson, an oil exploration vessel operated by the British firm Cairn Energy.