Example sentences of "as [art] child 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it has been suggested that often ‘ parents may legitimately be regarded as the child 's representatives in what is a conflict between the family and the state ’ . |
| 2 | As the child 's mobility increases , accidents are often related to play , and when constant adult surveillance can not be assured , young children can at least be protected by being put in a playpen or securely fastened in a bouncing cradle ( placed on the floor ) , highchair or pram . |
| 3 | As the child 's mental processes become more complex , it becomes increasingly able to absorb and construct for itself the complexities of the external world . |
| 4 | This switch was intended to enable Roshanara to retain her influence by stepping in as the child 's regent . |
| 5 | ‘ The name my mother put on the birth certificate as the child 's father , ’ he explained impatiently as he turned to face her . |
| 6 | A long experience of management problems with a child , for instance , increased the chance that a crisis such as the child 's arrest for a criminal offence would provoke an episode of depression in the mother . |
| 7 | He said he had invited the Official Solicitor , David Venables , to act as the child 's guardian . |
| 8 | Spring leaves of pure sap green silver-haired as a child 's arm . |
| 9 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 10 | He looked hurt when she did n't join him , his emotions transparent as a child 's . |
| 11 | The landscape is as simple , naive and charming as a child 's painting . |
| 12 | A tall and awkward body and yet light as a child 's . |
| 13 | I can only remember listening as a child 's body was carried down the stairs of my husband 's house , and the way the moon came into my kitchen as I listened . |
| 14 | If , however , it were marketed as a child 's toy or the blade were such that when used to peel potatoes it disintegrated into splinters , then it would not be as safe as people generally were entitled to expect . |
| 15 | The little man nodded his bald head , his eyes simple as a child 's . |