Example sentences of "[be] [art] child of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Queen was the child of love , while Mary had been the child of hatred . |
| 2 | Without clothes , under his first blanket , he could have been the child of a king or a beggar . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You are the child of servants . |
| 5 | The phrases used are different but the message is the same , ‘ I approve of myself , ‘ I am a child of the Universe ’ , ‘ I relax and trust in life ’ . |
| 6 | I was so proud of you — as proud as though you 'd been a child of mine trying to walk . |
| 7 | She must have once been a child of the nursery school . |
| 8 | I 'm a child of the revolution . |
| 9 | This is what it means truly to be a child of God . |
| 10 | Being the child of a system-ridden age , he must have a theory . |
| 11 | By the Adoption Act 1958 , property of adopter and adoptee is to devolve in all respects as if the adoptee were the child of the adopter , born in lawful wedlock . |
| 12 | ‘ In view of your attitude , I assume you were the child of a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 13 | You were a child of seven when this happened . ’ |
| 14 | as if he were a child of five she had reprimanded him , saying , ‘ Do n't be so personal ; she is Miss Crosbie . |
| 15 | I thought you were a child of nature , but you have the worst of your ancient family in you ! ’ |
| 16 | Sophie was married to an eccentric Regular soldier , and lived in the east-end of the city , whilst Mary , being a child of school-age , was being brought up as a daughter . |
| 17 | He is still a child of nature as well as being a child of the spirit , and the practice of non-violence requires a great deal of discipline and courage . |
| 18 | If he , Jaq — being a child of genetically wholesome parents — had begun to shine this light too , might not something in the nature of the world of Xerxes Quintus itself be to blame ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Far from being a conclusion of the ‘ consumer-led ’ revolution beloved of propagandists , the change is the child of a retail revolution which , for the consumer , constitutes only a re-arrangement of his or her individual powerlessness . ’ |
| 21 | He is the child of Labour 's crisis which resulted in his ideological credentials being preferred to the experience and qualifications of his rivals . |
| 22 | Unamuno also wrote : ‘ Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion ’ — a very Zen Buddhist concept of which I was to learn the truth in Salamanca . |
| 23 | He laughs , and clings to the notion that Ishmael is the child of the promise ( a child whom he had allowed when still unborn to be driven into the wilderness to die ! ) . |
| 24 | Her other daughter , six-year-old Fawn , is the child of rock producer and former 10CC star Duncan MacKay . |
| 25 | She is the child of this paper unless I indicate otherwise . |
| 26 | Who is the child of this father ? |
| 27 | Example Jane is the child of Richard and Mary now divorced . |
| 28 | SHE 'S the child of two movie stars . |
| 29 | she 's a child of ten if you remember |
| 30 | Like Donald White , Hall is a child of the ghetto : the son of a Cleveland preacher , the late Reverend Fred Hall , and his wife Annie . |