Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] a child [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part II — Orders in family proceedings This introduces four new orders known collectively as s8 orders which provide for different aspects of a child 's care and upbringing . |
| 2 | Negative methods of responding in marking are likely to produce sterile , cumulative consequences in a child 's writing : pupils quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher and merely aim to fulfil those expectations . |
| 3 | In the early stages of a child 's development the visual problem can be masked . |
| 4 | Multiple or recurrent bacterial infections ( any combination of > 2 within a two year period ) of the following types in a child < 13 years of age : septicaemia , pneumonia , meningitis , bone or joint infection , or abscess of an internal organ or body cavity ( excluding otitis media or superficial skin or mucosal abscesses ) , caused by Haemophilus , Streptococcus ( including pneumococcus ) , or other pyogenic bacteria . |
| 5 | Many factors which socialization theories predict will affect sex roles , like the same-sex parent 's masculinity and femininity scores , parental expectations about a child 's masculinity and femininity , warmth of relationship between parents and child , presence of same-sex parent , and , for boys , father absence , have contradictory or insignificant effects . |
| 6 | The natural consequences of a child 's misbehaviour ( if not forestalled or prevented ) might be far from his or her liking . |
| 7 | At first sight the schedules are daunting — a 30-page booklet for each age group asks specific questions about a child 's health , educational progress , family and social relationships , identity , social presentation and emotional development . |
| 8 | School attendance officers were disliked for failing to take account of the need of some poor families for a child 's income . |
| 9 | Four key stages in a child 's education are defined , ending at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 . |
| 10 | Better than any other instrument available to teachers , then or now , tests would cut through the unpredictable circumstances of a child 's cultural background to the relatively stable aptitudes on which education builds . |
| 11 | About twelve worshippers dotted the empty , evenly-spaced pews , like lonely beads on a child 's abacus . |
| 12 | While shaping describes a mechanism which could theoretically account for numerous changes in a child 's language , Skinner acknowledges that it is a somewhat laborious and inefficient way of learning . |
| 13 | In the first phase , from the early 1960's to the early 1970's , attitudes towards the role of linguistic factors in a child 's development were deeply influenced by the ideas of Basil Bernstein and his circle . |
| 14 | Some live too far away to be closely involved in the day-to-day happenings of the younger generation , but visits to Granny and Grandpa , accompanied by the family or as special guests on their own , can be important highlights in a child 's life . |
| 15 | The court can also prohibit certain steps — such as changing a child 's name — or deal with specific issues like a child 's religion , schooling or medical treatment . |
| 16 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 17 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 18 | In schools where headteachers were responsive , the information which was passed to me often provided vital insights into a child 's difficulties . |
| 19 | While such tests should ideally sample structural , semantic and pragmatic aspects of language , this is seldom feasible and frequently language screening occurs as part of a more general screening assessment which considers other aspects of a child 's social and psychological functioning . |
| 20 | While both LARSP and Developmental Sentence Analysis are well-established procedures for assessing a child 's command of grammar from transcripts of naturalistic recordings , they are both restricted in the extent to which they provide the teacher or clinician with systematic information on other aspects of a child 's linguistic ability . |
| 21 | He argues that such procedures and the decisions about a child 's acceptability within mainstream education which may follow from them , are underpinned by competing philosophies about a child 's acceptability as a human being . |
| 22 | We may eventually need to relate these factors to one another or to other events in a child 's life , such as educational progress , length of stay in care or destination on exit . |
| 23 | In short , the whole debate about the relative contributions to a child 's intelligence of upbringing and genetics is still wide open . |
| 24 | From these memories he developed a theory that there were three main stages in a child 's development . |
| 25 | An important criterion for the use of tests involving a qualitative assessment is that the test user is fully familiar with the theoretical basis of the test and is competent to translate variations in test performance across items into valid generalisations about a child 's linguistic ability and , if necessary , into recommendations for treatment . |
| 26 | Just occasionally , however , drastic discontinuities in a child 's upbringing do occur and are thus of special interest in attempts to understand the role of early experience . |