Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’ |
| 2 | In the summer of our second year in Rye my four grandchildren came to stay — Mark , Elizabeth , Emma , Charlotte — and I realised that for more than a hundred years there had not been a child at Lamb House . |
| 3 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 4 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 5 | Now , no sooner is the child in its cot than Hello ! magazine is called in to photograph the occasion for the world to see . |
| 6 | Lally was a child , innocently flattering . |
| 7 | This has always been the child 's room , the girl-child . |
| 8 | She must have once been a child of the nursery school . |
| 9 | You may still be a child but you are the only person in this dreadful place who understands the meaning of care . |
| 10 | Luisella had also been the child of a successful businessman , owner of one of the most important chemist 's shops in Treviso , and she too had had brothers who had dominated her childhood , driving her to defend herself in unorthodox ways . |
| 11 | It occurred to me that it might after all have really been a child , from one of the cottages at the bay to the east ; someone who had come to help Maria . |
| 12 | How often is a child singled out for special praise at governors ' meetings ? |
| 13 | She really was a child . |
| 14 | It might be obvious that an object had a religious purpose , but often even this is debatable : a small , crudely carved wooden figure might be the cult statue of a god , but it could equally well be a child 's toy . |
| 15 | She would n't be a child anymore , would n't . |
| 16 | You ca n't be a child forever . |
| 17 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |
| 18 | The good reason proposed here is the child 's future handicap . |
| 19 | How is the child 's performance on the activity assessed ? |
| 20 | ( ‘ And how is the child doing — she is quite over the loss ? |
| 21 | Of course a certain amount of caution is necessary , for how else is the child to learn that he should not put his hand in the fire or stick his finger into an electric socket ? |
| 22 | Why is the child " playing up " , misbehaving or distracting others ? |
| 23 | ‘ Where was the child murdered ? |
| 24 | Rosemary , at forty , told me : I 've never been a child |
| 25 | ‘ I 've never been a child , ’ she told me . |
| 26 | It is at least possible that he did not know otherwise and that his father was responsible for this fiction , assuring his son that he truly was the child of British parents , though American-born . |