Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fear is a child might put one of the necklaces in its mouth |
| 2 | ‘ When the defendant was a child she used to baby-sit for his parents . |
| 3 | However , once upon a time the mathematician was a child too . |
| 4 | Nenna was a child again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If the product is a child 's toy then the target market will clearly be important . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a fearful handicap being a child . |
| 14 | ‘ The bicycle is a child 's only independent means of transport , yet that mobility is under threat . |
| 15 | ‘ Woe unto thee , o land , when thy king is a child . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Of course , the question must be asked , " what age is a child ? " |
| 18 | An example was a child admitted for surgical repair of a tracheo-oesophageal fistula who developed pyloric stenosis in hospital postoperatively . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | But do some folk glibly say we 're e every human being is a child of God . |
| 21 | What Donaldson has taught us , however , is that at the heart of the experimental situation is a child who is actively trying to make his or her own sense of the situation — and in particular , trying to understand , from what the adult says and does , and from how the materials are manipulated , what the adult 's motives and intentions might be . |
| 22 | My usual practice when visiting a patient with an acute febrile illness was to leave a prescription for the appropriate conventional drug ( usually an antibiotic ) , while at the same time administering the most appropriate homoeopathic remedy with the advice to the patient — or the parents , if the patient was a child — to continue to take the homoeopathic remedy but that if there was no improvement in two to four hours then to take the conventional drug . |
| 23 | In neither case was a child resistant lid contraindicated . |
| 24 | Where the non-visitor is a child a warning will be inadequate to discharge the duty ; further steps should be taken to discourage the person from taking the risk , e.g. the erection of fencing . |
| 25 | The only other son is a child , and his nephew will have no better chance than the rest of his brothers-in-law and their offspring against the brethren of Wessex , once Siward goes . |