Example sentences of "be [that] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that children can be happy and well behaved but also abscond and be frequently punished , but I would need to resolve this apparent contradiction . |
| 2 | It may well be that children younger than nine years have difficulty picking up information about intentions from pictures . |
| 3 | Thus it may be that children are not accustomed to relying on purely linguistic cues to the deductive mode . |
| 4 | One may be that children do not have sufficient command of the skills of extracting information from a text . |
| 5 | The judges will of course be looking for turning ability , but the most important factor is that children — or adults — will find the toy a joy . |
| 6 | The gist of the parents ' complaints is that children were allowed too much freedom and that there was too little formal instruction in the three Rs . |
| 7 | The normal response to that suggestion is that children in rural schools must not be denied the educational opportunities which are open to other children . |
| 8 | The balancing truth is that children can never know what parents owe to them . |
| 9 | The fact is that children who are persistently defiant are likely to receive ‘ payoffs ’ for being disobedient . |
| 10 | The second is that children who are used to watching Going Live are not likely to be enthralled by the Black and White Minister Show . |
| 11 | The underlying premise of Papert , Servan-Schreiber and their colleagues at the Centre Mondial is that children and adults , lawyers and journalists , the rulers and the ruled , can all assimilate compute culture without either losing their own , or surrendering to some centrally imposed scheme of , knowledge . |
| 12 | The disadvantage is that children do not have the same choices as if the open-plan system was operating and , for this reason , I prefer all the food to be laid out to view . |
| 13 | Thus the simple but overall goal is that children should grow up properly equipped for adult life . |
| 14 | The important thing is that children learn to read with confidence , understanding and pleasure . |
| 15 | What keeps happening , time and again , is that children burn tyres or throw stones and Israeli troops shoot back — and sometimes kill . |
| 16 | One thing they are all quite sure about is that children are not like adults ; in particular they agree that children lack some capacity for rational thought which adults have . |
| 17 | A further linguistic demand is that children have to distinguish between because and so constructions within the intentional mode . |
| 18 | I shall isolate six points of difference that seem to me important to our appreciation of why it is that children normally find writing difficult . |
| 19 | The assumption is that children from ‘ deprived backgrounds ’ are more likely to adopt racist attitudes and arguments because their cultural milieu is unable to equip them with a more enlightened understanding of the causes of their problems . |
| 20 | Erm , I do n't think either a father or a mother intrinsically has to be necessary , I think what 's important is that children should have access to a variety of loving adults , one or two , or maybe three of those who they should have a special relationship with , does n't matter whether they 're male or female , so long as the , the children are loved and they feel secure and happy , it does n't matter about , you know , this is mother , this is father . |
| 21 | And what we do from research is that children who smoke are more likely to smoke the brands that are heavily advertised |
| 22 | One effect is that children , especially those in large families , are disproportionately affected by increases in unemployment . |
| 23 | The first , golden rule is that children do not learn at an even pace . |
| 24 | A second advantage is that children 's " errors " or incompetences reveal to us what adult competences in verbal interaction must involve . |
| 25 | The family who has to care for children whether they 've got disabilities or not and the whole intention of this Act is that children are best cared for by parents and any alternative is second best . |
| 26 | ‘ But even worse is that children who are victims of crime are made to feel guilty and to blame . ’ |
| 27 | What is essential , Max says , is that children become musically literate at an early age ; learning some sort of instrument , to sing , and , most importantly to listen . |
| 28 | ‘ One of the fundamentals is that children have to be taught . |
| 29 | It 's scientifically proven that foods can make certain susceptible children very ill , and this can manifest itself in various ways , but one of the most common ways is that children behave badly ; they become aggressive and disturbed . |
| 30 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |