Example sentences of "to [be] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had first of all , as if in some extraordinary dream , after struggling through the dark tunnel , seen her in bed , seen her dark bright eyes , reflecting the candlelight , gazing calmly at him ; and he had imagined her to be a child , a boy . |
| 2 | This is what it means truly to be a child of God . |
| 3 | You 've got to learn to be a toddler from a baby , you 've got to learn to be a child and then a teenager . |
| 4 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 5 | ‘ Is n't it great to be a child ? ’ said her father . |
| 6 | At Liverpool clubs , the toilets are full of catsuited girls who look at you as if you 're rumoured to be a child molester . |
| 7 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 8 | Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ . |
| 9 | But once it catches on it gets dissipated , and people start thinking ‘ in order to be angry , you have to be a child ’ . |
| 10 | Chronic illnesses such as epilepsy can cause adult sufferers to become dependent upon family members , which can lead to confusion about individual family roles : children may have to take on adult responsibilities , denying their right to be a child , and this can result in major adjustment and behavioural problems as they grow older . |
| 11 | I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what it was like to be a child between say the age of five and ten . |
| 12 | ‘ It will be a good-looking pig , but it would be terrible to be a child with a face like that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I know him to be a child with a warm heart , ’ said Rose . |
| 14 | " It is better to be a child in a green pasture , " |
| 15 | There seemed to be a child 's face looking in at the window . |
| 16 | The child does not have to be a child in need as defined in the Act . |
| 17 | It had to be a child , Coffin thought , and had n't Mrs Foster been Gilly Slee when he had known her at Hook Road School ? |