Example sentences of "for the child " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many severely handicapped children do die at an early age through natural causes , but at least the parents can feel that they did everything they could for the child when it was alive . |
| 32 | An offer of coffee or tea and a glass of squash for the child are added indicators to those essential elements of marketing — attention to people and thoughtfulness . |
| 33 | You are responsible for the child at school and not the parents so do n't be tempted to pass the buck . |
| 34 | The results should be capable of being used formatively and to indicate any particular need for support for the child , or for more specific diagnostic assessment . |
| 35 | ‘ Norman Campbell , why must you always be so cynical and spoil things for the child ? ’ |
| 36 | Before long with everyone else participating , even the teachers , running becomes an intellectual pursuit for the child . |
| 37 | If you are babysitting , make sure you have an emergency contact number for the child 's parents . |
| 38 | Presumably you have worked out the cost of someone caring for the child while you are earning a living . |
| 39 | So what you say about the rights of fathers is also about who is the ‘ real ’ father — the biological father or the man who cares for the child ? |
| 40 | Custom then demanded that this person should hand over three gifts for the child , with his good wishes . |
| 41 | Basil 's widowed father , a natural son of the Earl of Sandwich , formed part of Wordsworth 's circle of London friends , and the proposal that Wordsworth and Dorothy should become responsible for the child was from the beginning an important part of their plans for life at Racedown . |
| 42 | for the child 's ( and later the teenager 's ) safety — the youngster has to learn to avoid dangers ; |
| 43 | Others do this misguidedly because they want to ‘ make up ’ ( i.e. compensate ) for the child 's handicap . |
| 44 | Of course it will be difficult for the child — the recipient of parental love — to appreciate affection and respond to it unless it is outwardly demonstrated . |
| 45 | Women also created important opportunities for the many tasks of childcare to be handled through routines ( see page 36 ) , another example where what is good for the child can be good for the parent . |
| 46 | C onsequences — positive or negative — for the child and parent(s) . |
| 47 | You will , at times , have to make the consequences of undesirable behaviour costly for the child . |
| 48 | Will the doubtful gains for the child 's personality development of an undiscriminating total ban outweigh the fairly certain chagrin , embarrassment and isolation that will be experienced when he or she can not join in some of the most popular entertainments and games of middle childhood ? |
| 49 | Another potentially lethal hazard has been identified when baby-walkers are used ( Gray , 1987 ) ; it is easy for the child to reach out and pull on a kettle flex or iron flex which perhaps seemed safely tucked away and despite the apparent pleasure derived from baby-walkers , there is enough evidence of related accidents to recommend that they should not be used . |
| 50 | Thereafter , the baby is vulnerable to such infections and this is borne in mind when organising immunisation programmes for the child . |
| 51 | I think we underestimated the problems for the child . |
| 52 | We suggest that the choosing of the names for the child enables the parents to pay compliments to other relatives . |
| 53 | We suggest that the act of baptizing the child is viewed with superstition as much as religious belief ; that it is ‘ better ’ for the child to be baptized in case anything happens to it . |
| 54 | The immediate prospects are not promising for the child , at least in so far as primary schools are concerned . |
| 55 | Put simply , the Record of Achievement could become a Record of Failure , at least for the child who makes a slow start to achievement within the prescribed National Curriculum . |
| 56 | Too often , such provision tended to focus exclusively on slow learners , and took the form of ‘ remedial ’ provision which tended not to remedy and which sometimes created , in the return to the ‘ normal ’ curriculum , extra problems for the child . |
| 57 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 58 | The testator also appoints a curator for the child , and directs that he and the two nurses should enjoy the income from certain land . |
| 59 | It is reasonable , to start ideas in train in children , to compare an electron with a ping-pong ball , or the whole atom with a tiny solar system ; but the longer you stay with homely parallels , the harder it ultimately becomes for the child to move out of the imagery of pong-pong balls and into an appreciation that atoms are n't really like that at all . |
| 60 | Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual . |