Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial stresses , sexual stresses , the stresses of being a child , an adult , a mother , a father , a son , a daughter , a husband , a wife , a lover , and an unloved . |
| 2 | Being cared for in a hospital was like being a child again . |
| 3 | to be taken in hand and led , like being a child again , even without the innocence , a child — It 's like being given a prize , an extra slice of childhood when you least expect it , as a prize for being good , or compensation for never having had one … |
| 4 | Like being a child again , she thought , not understanding the long words , the adult jokes . |
| 5 | It was like being a child again , but a secure one rather than someone like her who 'd never been encouraged to cry out her troubles and fears . |
| 6 | The change from being a child to an adult involves a great deal more than physical and biological change . |
| 7 | From being a child to being an adult this apparent choice changed to the overriding , deep-rooted belief that I was actually a boy , that nature had somehow made a mistake biologically but that I was really a boy . |
| 8 | He had first of all , as if in some extraordinary dream , after struggling through the dark tunnel , seen her in bed , seen her dark bright eyes , reflecting the candlelight , gazing calmly at him ; and he had imagined her to be a child , a boy . |
| 9 | This is what it means truly to be a child of God . |
| 10 | You 've got to learn to be a toddler from a baby , you 've got to learn to be a child and then a teenager . |
| 11 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 12 | ‘ Is n't it great to be a child ? ’ said her father . |
| 13 | At Liverpool clubs , the toilets are full of catsuited girls who look at you as if you 're rumoured to be a child molester . |
| 14 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 15 | Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ . |
| 16 | But once it catches on it gets dissipated , and people start thinking ‘ in order to be angry , you have to be a child ’ . |
| 17 | Chronic illnesses such as epilepsy can cause adult sufferers to become dependent upon family members , which can lead to confusion about individual family roles : children may have to take on adult responsibilities , denying their right to be a child , and this can result in major adjustment and behavioural problems as they grow older . |
| 18 | I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what it was like to be a child between say the age of five and ten . |
| 19 | ‘ It will be a good-looking pig , but it would be terrible to be a child with a face like that . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I know him to be a child with a warm heart , ’ said Rose . |
| 21 | " It is better to be a child in a green pasture , " |
| 22 | There seemed to be a child 's face looking in at the window . |
| 23 | The child does not have to be a child in need as defined in the Act . |
| 24 | It had to be a child , Coffin thought , and had n't Mrs Foster been Gilly Slee when he had known her at Hook Road School ? |
| 25 | ‘ It is entirely up to the local education authority to decide what it considered to be the child 's needs , ’ the judge said . |
| 26 | Lewis had written to Uncle Hilbert and told him of his intention to name his son after him , inviting him to be the child 's godfather . |
| 27 | He wrapped the remains with those of a woman , believed to be the child 's mother . |
| 28 | But since on this occasion the words were dictated to the child it is more likely to be the child 's efforts to repeat the sound to herself and to write down her idea of a phonic equivalent . |
| 29 | In some respects all families are at risk since being a child and being a parent is never easy . |
| 30 | Well you were just talking about children erm my feeling is that we 're all children , there is no division between being a child and an adult and I think that they can accept a whole lot , but there 's a whole lot of adults that ca n't accept the shocks that are happening today and they put them into their subconscious and unfortunately it comes out in so many other ways — it comes over as a neurosis or as a mental disorder at some later date . |