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

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1 But it is still against the spirit of the Act to impose restrictions on contact where a child is accommodated by a local authority .
2 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 .
3 Where a child is a party to proceedings and required to serve a document , service must be effected by the child 's solicitor or by the guardian ad litem where the child has no solicitor .
4 Thus , a care order may be made for the " appeal period " where a child is the subject of an interim care order at the time the application is dismissed .
5 In the 1960's , the American ’ Look and Say ’ method was introduced , where a child is taught to recognise the whole word .
6 Add a festive frolic to Christmas tea time or a child 's stocking with Asda 's Iced Ginger Biscuits .
7 ‘ I think you 'll find that it 's a legal requirement in Scotland that a child be provided with an education . ’
8 Primary cases involve any allegation that a child is being physically or sexually abused , neglected , is failing to thrive , is left alone , or is severely at risk of being abused .
9 It is not necessarily a sign that a child is especially aggressive .
10 However , experience shows that a child is to a large extent its own person , with all the hang-ups of an adult .
11 He has also shown that a child is likely to share the same birth months as other relatives .
12 From a distance it is easy to believe that a child is counting when in fact he is only reciting a number sequence and touching or moving objects at random .
13 The reality is that a child is a time-consuming , all-engulfing creature who disrupts any semblance of pleasurable home life .
14 On many occasions assessments will be carried out because it is suspected that a child is experiencing some difficulty with linguistic communication , or because there are other areas of functioning in which the child is having difficulty which may have implications for language development .
15 As children grow there can be changes in their vision , and since screening tests may be infrequent , teachers should be aware of some of the physical signs and behaviours that may indicate that a child is having problems with sight .
16 Social workers have a key role to play when someone suspects that a child is being abused .
17 The problem here seems to be this : am I saying that a child is responsible if and only if we declare her to be so , given that she knows what she is doing ?
18 The fact that a child is weaned early ( or undergoes a period of separation , or has minimal brain damage , or loses a parent through death ) will not by itself tell one about the eventual outcome .
19 For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences .
20 ( ii ) When notified by a local education authority that a child is persistently failing to comply with directions given under an education supervision order ( Sched 3 , para 19(2) ) .
21 If , for example , a client discloses to a solicitor , in confidence , the fact that a child is being abused by another person , this information can only be passed on if the public interest in protecting children from serious harm outweighs the public interest in maintaining confidentiality between solicitor and client .
22 Valerie Howarth , executive director of ChildLine , said : ‘ It is totally unacceptable that a judge should suggest that a child is responsible for sexual abuse perpetrated upon her . ’
23 Before the changes contained in the Children Act 1989 came into effect the LEA , when contemplating prosecution , had to consider the appropriateness or otherwise of instituting care proceedings under section 1 ( 2 ) ( e ) of the Children and Young Persons Act ( CYPA ) in the juvenile court ( on the ground that a child was ‘ not receiving full-time education suitable to his age , ability and aptitude ’ ) , instead of or as well as prosecuting ( see Education Act 1944 section 40(2) ) .
24 In contrast to these results , Slobin and Welsh found that a child was able to imitate one of her own utterances immediately after she had produced it spontaneously , but that errors occurred when the child was asked to imitate the same utterance some minutes later .
25 This could lead to over-protectiveness and care had to be taken to ensure that a child was involved in all the group 's activities .
26 His instincts told him that a child was more likely to keep something dark than an adult — a child has no tiresome misgivings about deceiving even his loved ones — but he was not sure that he dare trust his instincts .
27 The educationalist Sir Robert Gould once said that a child being educated in Great Britain could not possibly understand his own environment without understanding something about Christianity ; and he was right .
28 Once a child is able to match one-to-one with confidence , he can use the idea to make a visual comparison of the number of objects contained in two sets .
29 Once a child is maturationally ready to toilet train the process usually only takes one or two weeks , but the teaching still has to come from the mother and she may be very uncertain about when to do it .
30 Once a child is in care , a lawyer may be asked to advise on the respective rights of the parties .
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