Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] child [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children whose parents had given unconscious , covert permission for the child 's aggressive behaviour . |
| 2 | Life in New Zealand was hard for the original settlers , but not quite as hard for Bruce and Jim 's generation , and it looked as if it might be a veritable paradise for the children 's . |
| 3 | One of the principal reasons for conducting a detailed assessment of a child 's language is to determine the most effective way of helping that child . |
| 4 | Advice to parents is based on a mixture of behaviour management skills , nutritional help , reassurance , and building up the parents ’ confidence in coping with the child and at times long-term support with careful monitoring of the child 's weight and the parent-child relationship ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) . |
| 5 | Very often , parents can be helped by a clear description of the child 's abilities and the areas of relative weakness , especially if this is written down so that they can take it away and read it at their leisure . |
| 6 | In deciding whether to grant leave the court must have regard to : ( i ) the nature of the proposed application ; ( ii ) the applicant 's connection with the child ; ( iii ) the risk of harmful disruption to the child 's life ; and ( iv ) where the child is being looked after by a local authority , the authority 's plans for the child 's future and the wishes and feelings of the parents ( s10(9) ) . |
| 7 | In such cases the court must give proper weight to the child 's wishes , and be slow to reject them , but in the final analysis should be free to determine for itself what the child 's best interests require . |
| 8 | A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital . |
| 9 | This forestalls any wrong assumptions about immature behaviour for the child 's age or a small child being older than appearance suggests . |
| 10 | They should be invited , where practicable , to attend part , or if appropriate , the whole of the case conference unless , in the view of the Chairman of the conference , their presence would preclude a full and proper consideration of the child 's interests . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It may well be that the factors which influenced the sheriff are strongly mitigating and should be given proper consideration by the children 's hearing when they come to consider the future arrangements for L on the footing that the grounds of referral are now held to be established . ’ |
| 12 | It is then up to the teacher or therapist to help the parents accept that an assessment may be useful as a way of helping the child without necessarily providing a diagnostic label or a clear statement regarding the child 's future . |
| 13 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 14 | Furthermore , for the first time the planned and negotiated sharing of a child 's care , through local authority provision of ‘ accommodation ’ is reframed as a form of support . |
| 15 | Assessing functional vision will involve careful observation of the child 's visual behaviour and ability to cope with blackboard and demonstration work , close desk or table tasks , physical and practical activities and recreation and playtime activities . |
| 16 | This showed that , on average , children adopted by high-earning families had an IQ 12 points higher than similar children adopted by low-earning families — whatever the social class of the children 's natural parents . |
| 17 | Now their eldest daughter has been told to leave too , but her supporters believe the decision is a clear breach of the children 's wardship order . |
| 18 | Now their eldest daughter has been told to leave too , but her supporters believe the decision is a clear breach of the children 's wardship order . |
| 19 | Then there was the noticeable change in the children 's health . |
| 20 | Both are ultimately destructive to the child 's aspirations at school and the achievements he will gain there and , so , consequently , have a deciding effect on the child 's eventual career . |
| 21 | It may be accomplished with minimal disruption to the child 's routine and way of life , or the whole of life-circumstance may be altered . |
| 22 | It is unique in its opportunities to establish from the outset good habits in terms of expectations of parental involvement and willingness to participate in honest exchange about the child 's progress . |
| 23 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
| 24 | Concern for ideas like one-to-one correspondence is often of minimal importance in the child 's imaginative play , when the need may be primarily emotional or social . |
| 25 | Mr Harvey McGregor has said in McGregor on Damages , ( 15th ed Sweet & Maxwell 1988 , para 1588 ) : It may be argued that the benefit of a mother 's personal attention to a child 's upbringing , morals , education and psychology , which the services of a housekeeper , nurse or governess could never provide has , in the long run , a financial value for the child difficult as it is to assess . |
| 26 | On the one hand , there is the position expounded by Chomsky ( 1965,1976 ) , Lenneberg ( 1967 ) and McNeil ( 1966 ) , which emphasizes the autonomous nature of the child 's construction of language . |
| 27 | One of the surgeons who reported the case , aptly named KC Saw , said they did n't know of any similar cases but the holes in the metal ring with their inward-turning rims were a perfect trap for a child 's fingers . |
| 28 | It is a broad term , with the appropriate emphasis on the child 's potential , but has been used too often previously to contrast with ‘ blind ’ without consideration for the needs of pupils who have to use both tactile and visual methods for learning . |
| 29 | The entire cast , in costume and make-up , sets off in a vintage bus at 10 a.m. on the traditional annual pilgrimage to the children 's hospital . |
| 30 | As he handed Ben the bowl he almost expected to receive some kind of shock — a violent discharge of the child 's unnatural energy — through the medium of the bowl . |