Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a child [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruling meant that cheap tomato sauce could replace a healthier vegetable in a child 's diet . |
| 2 | One of the principal reasons for conducting a detailed assessment of a child 's language is to determine the most effective way of helping that child . |
| 3 | Part II — Orders in family proceedings This introduces four new orders known collectively as s8 orders which provide for different aspects of a child 's care and upbringing . |
| 4 | A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital . |
| 5 | The influential work of John Bowlby has led many people to believe that any kind of mother-child separation during the first few years of a child 's life should be avoided . |
| 6 | They used to be just another attraction at a children 's zoo — but then they learned to trampoline . |
| 7 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 8 | Furthermore , for the first time the planned and negotiated sharing of a child 's care , through local authority provision of ‘ accommodation ’ is reframed as a form of support . |
| 9 | Negative methods of responding in marking are likely to produce sterile , cumulative consequences in a child 's writing : pupils quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher and merely aim to fulfil those expectations . |
| 10 | The parent will tend to recalibrate their response , as , as , as you have said , parents will come to expect children to make a lot of fuss about nothing , and consequently wo n't pay so much attention to a child 's distress as they would to an adult 's , because we regard it as natural , children to cry or make a fuss about the treatment we contribute , but the reason for that could be that we , we have as it were , readjusted our sensitivity to distress and we , we really have a double standard . |
| 11 | Mr Harvey McGregor has said in McGregor on Damages , ( 15th ed Sweet & Maxwell 1988 , para 1588 ) : It may be argued that the benefit of a mother 's personal attention to a child 's upbringing , morals , education and psychology , which the services of a housekeeper , nurse or governess could never provide has , in the long run , a financial value for the child difficult as it is to assess . |
| 12 | One of the surgeons who reported the case , aptly named KC Saw , said they did n't know of any similar cases but the holes in the metal ring with their inward-turning rims were a perfect trap for a child 's fingers . |
| 13 | In the early stages of a child 's development the visual problem can be masked . |
| 14 | Too much neurosis about a child 's progress is therefore unproductive . |
| 15 | A crucial aspect of a child 's interests is thus ignored . |
| 16 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 17 | Not entirely ; to begin with we might take a pragmatic line in the light of new knowledge about the long-term effects of such treatment on a child 's subsequent development . |
| 18 | That crucial time in a child 's life when he has the ability to understand that his parents and teachers are trying to prepare him for his adult life , will not necessarily be related to his age . |
| 19 | Multiple or recurrent bacterial infections ( any combination of > 2 within a two year period ) of the following types in a child < 13 years of age : septicaemia , pneumonia , meningitis , bone or joint infection , or abscess of an internal organ or body cavity ( excluding otitis media or superficial skin or mucosal abscesses ) , caused by Haemophilus , Streptococcus ( including pneumococcus ) , or other pyogenic bacteria . |
| 20 | Many factors which socialization theories predict will affect sex roles , like the same-sex parent 's masculinity and femininity scores , parental expectations about a child 's masculinity and femininity , warmth of relationship between parents and child , presence of same-sex parent , and , for boys , father absence , have contradictory or insignificant effects . |
| 21 | Screening tests for vision are given on average three times during a child 's life . |
| 22 | These comments suggest that the test is unlikely to be useful as a screening instrument but , when used in conjunction with other tests or with children who have already been identified as having language difficulties , it may assist in the generation of a balanced assessment of a child 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 23 | Could one promote his buried awareness into a skill of giving matter-of-fact recognition to a child 's potential , of giving a child hope about himself , instead of confirming his negative stance by showing surprise at occasional good work or using it to prove that Dave ‘ could do better if he tried ’ ( as we so easily exhort when we are exasperated , and as the group seemed to be doing with Mr E ) ? |
| 24 | A reassessment of statemented children must , in any event , take place within six months either side of a child 's fourteenth birthday . |
| 25 | Behind the wide , full mouth , the arrogant stare of the eyes , the dark , crimped , Pre-Raphaelite hair streaming in the wind , was a careful delineation of the headland , its objects disposed and painted with the meticulous attention to detail of a sixteenth-century primitive ; the Victorian rectory , the ruined abbey , the half-demolished pillbox , the crippled trees , the small white mill like a child 's toy and , gaunt against a flaming evening sky , the stark outline of the power station . |
| 26 | Alfriston is a very pretty village with a children 's zoo . |
| 27 | When considering whether a parent was unreasonably withholding consent to a child 's adoption , the test was not whether the court agreed with the parent 's reasons for withholding consent but whether a reasonable parent would withhold consent in the circumstances of the case . |
| 28 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |
| 29 | But there 's a big difference in my view between the sort of regular abuse and assaults on staff in a Casualty Department and somebody walking into what should have been a locked ward on a children 's unit in a hospital at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 30 | The pension has a large garden with a children 's play area . |