Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fear is a child might put one of the necklaces in its mouth |
| 2 | The central figure is the child , Little Nell , who deeply engaged the sympathies of contemporary readers as they followed her through the hardships of her pilgrimage , made in company with the senile grandfather whom she strives to protect , from the London curiosity shop to the sanctuary of a village where her sufferings end in a peaceful death . |
| 3 | ‘ When the defendant was a child she used to baby-sit for his parents . |
| 4 | However , once upon a time the mathematician was a child too . |
| 5 | Nenna was a child again . |
| 6 | And er what condition was the child in ? |
| 7 | Normally the principal counsellee is a child ; but there is no reason why the process can not centre upon the problems of an older relative . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Many people also feel that there is no necessity to deal with racial issues since the child is seen as part and parcel of the family and ‘ a child is a child ’ . |
| 10 | Even if I fight to improve the school ( the battle began two years ago but victory is nowhere on the horizon ) my child is a child for 10 years more . |
| 11 | Sir Roy Strong stumbles off the block with his opening sentence ‘ The portrait was a child of the renaissance ’ , which seems to have forgotten about classical antiquity , but then sets off on a thought-provoking and terse survey of themes and ideas throughout the three centuries covered by the book . |
| 12 | The new Queen was the child of love , while Mary had been the child of hatred . |
| 13 | If the product is a child 's toy then the target market will clearly be important . |
| 14 | If the heir was a child , he was in wardship to the lord : the lord was his legal guardian and had control of the estates and of the person of the ward until he came of age . |
| 15 | The king might be happy to comply ; on the other hand , he had a strong interest in maintaining his pool of benefices , and sometimes tried to resume a grant on the death of a tenant , especially if the potential heir was a child . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a fearful handicap being a child . |
| 17 | I 've realized that this temperamental behaviour is the child in me not getting what I want . |
| 18 | ‘ The bicycle is a child 's only independent means of transport , yet that mobility is under threat . |
| 19 | ‘ Woe unto thee , o land , when thy king is a child . ’ |
| 20 | Several inherited the throne in childhood , even in early infancy — ‘ Woe to the kingdom whose king is a child ’ — and were oppressed or imprisoned by their regents and guardians , kidnapped by the English , or bandied to and fro between powerful nobles . |
| 21 | Another important development is the Child Care Open Learning Project , part of the Gatsby Project , which has led to the availability of the Open University Courses ‘ Caring for Children and Young People ’ ( P653 ) and ‘ Working with Children and Young People ’ ( K254 ) both of which are making a wide range of knowledge and research available to many practitioners and others . |
| 22 | Of course , the question must be asked , " what age is a child ? " |
| 23 | Liz Waterland says ( 1985 , p.42 ) , ‘ My invitation … is ‘ Come and read with me ’ ’ ; ‘ I provide the lap , the text and the time ; the learning is the child 's ’ ( ibid . |
| 24 | An example was a child admitted for surgical repair of a tracheo-oesophageal fistula who developed pyloric stenosis in hospital postoperatively . |
| 25 | During that decade of major war , Britain 's near-monopoly of factory industry was sustained , and after 1815 she entered a new era of economic history in which the mutual influences of industrialisation and trade expansion could work freely , and in which , as Professor Thomas has expressed it , " trade was the child of industry " . |
| 26 | And it 's a difficult topic to raise with those concerned — how do you voice objections without implying that you think the man is a child molester ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The man was the child 's father . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But do some folk glibly say we 're e every human being is a child of God . |