Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] a child " in BNC.

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1 Dual assessments will be most common where the local authority is assessing a child 's special educational needs under the Education Act 1981 or where a child is disabled and the assessment is for the purposes of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 or associated legislation .
2 He asks in one of his papers , ‘ The Place Where We Live ’ : ‘ What are we doing when we listen to a Beethoven symphony or when a child is playing ? ’
3 Some educational psychologists visit the schools in their area on a regular basis so that teachers know when they will be coming in and can discuss children they may be worried about ; others visit at the request of the school or when a child is formally referred to them .
4 The Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 says that where a child has been detained in a place of safety , and the Reporter considers that the child may be in need of compulsory measures of care , he shall , wherever practicable , arrange a children 's hearing to sit not later than in the course of the first lawful day after the commencement of the child 's detention to consider the case .
5 The most perverse element of the English system is that if a child is not called , the hearsay rule pre vents anyone else — a parent , doctor or policeman — from repeating in court what the child said out of court .
6 A theory was evolved by a few influential educationalists that if a child is given a basic training in Laban skills then he will have the essential grounding for any future specialisation he may care to follow in gymnastics , dance or drama .
7 It should be clear that if a child is placed in an ethnically insensitive white community he or she will fail to develop the mechanisms necessary to survive in a racist society .
8 ‘ It has been proved that if a child attends a nursery school it benefits throughout the rest of its educational life . ’
9 Remember that if a child can spell successfully most words when he 's writing , it 's a waste of your time to be teaching him : teach the ones who need it .
10 the language properly conceived , and perverse forms of speech and thought : among the vast mass of the Population , it is certain that if a child is not learning good English , he is learning bad English , and probably bad habits of thought ; and some of the mischief done may never afterwards be undone .
11 It is often argued that if a child learned how to recode unfamiliar letter strings — printed words not previously encountered — into a phonological form , this would permit reading to be parasitic on an already established ability to access the semantics of a word from its phonology .
12 Recent and current work demonstrates incontrovertibly that if a child is adept at segmenting heard speech into sub-word constituents before tackling the task of learning to read , this task will be accomplished much more easily .
13 ‘ We are of the opinion that if a child is working hard in school they really should be relaxing and doing other things out of it , ’ she said .
14 ‘ The Government assumes that because a child is young , less well-qualified teachers are needed , ’ said NUT general secretary Doug McAvoy .
15 He explained that when a child becomes anxious he or she may stop learning .
16 A high value tends to be placed on certainty and permanence , so that when a child is removed from his natural parents and rapid rehabilitation seems unlikely , he should not be confused by multiple parent figures or uncertain plans for his future .
17 On that basis of the civil law , the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held in Montreal Tramways v. Leveille [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 , that when a child not actually born at the time of an accident was subsequently born alive and viable , it was clothed with all the rights of action which it would have had if actually in existence at the date of the accident to the mother .
18 My concern is that when a child is tested for standard sexually transmitted disease , an HIV test is done as a matter of course without informed consent .
19 The Child Support er Act says that when a Child Support Assessment is carried out it supersedes an existing court order .
20 They assume that when a child hears ‘ Two twos are four , two threes are six ’ that they 've got various pictures in their heads , various ideas onto which to attach these symbols and these words .
21 She is affirming that delinquency is neither an inborn disposition nor something the child has contrived by himself ; that children learn to become delinquents by becoming members of groups in which delinquent conduct is already established and the ‘ thing to do ’ ; and that a child need not be ‘ different ’ from other children , that he need not have any twists or defects of personality or intelligence , in order to become a delinquent .
22 While emphasising the interdependence between semantic expres-sions and underlying cognitive concepts , this approach also implies that not all of a child 's understanding of a particular experience may be expressed in language , and that a child may intend to express more than she is actually able to encode formally in language structures .
23 If a driver drives on a highway without due care for other users it is foreseeable that some of the other users of the highway will be pregnant women and that a child en ventre sa mère may be injured .
24 The basis for the proposition that individual women may improve their own prospects and those of their young children as regards health and mortality is the evidence that age at marriage and at childbearing , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of children that a woman has borne at various ages have a pronounced influence upon maternal and child health , and that a child 's birth order may be a factor in its survival chances .
25 On the other hand the needs and welfare of the child must be paramount and if a child is deemed to be in danger , or at any particular risk , the child must be removed .
26 Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses .
27 That state schools should teach by the oral method , but that a child found incapable of learning lipreading and speech after being taught these subjects for at least the initial year should , with the consent of the parents , be removed from the oral department of the school and , subject to strict segregation , be taught on the sign and manual system elsewhere .
28 But if a child is still excessively aggressive and antisocial at six or seven one 's mental alarm bells should be sounding ; it is time to seek professional help .
29 Of course , little bits of practice help ; but if a child goes on doing exactly the same thing just as incompetently every day for a month , or even three months , it does not necessarily mean that no progress is being made : it is , but inside , where you ca n't see it .
30 But if a child can make mistakes in safety , learn through the warmth of a cuddle , or through laughter , his trust and feeling of parental acceptance is not destroyed .
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