Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of a child [unc] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars .
4 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 .
5 In the early stages of a child 's development the visual problem can be masked .
6 A crucial aspect of a child 's interests is thus ignored .
7 When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things .
8 These comments suggest that the test is unlikely to be useful as a screening instrument but , when used in conjunction with other tests or with children who have already been identified as having language difficulties , it may assist in the generation of a balanced assessment of a child 's strengths and weaknesses .
9 The natural consequences of a child 's misbehaviour ( if not forestalled or prevented ) might be far from his or her liking .
10 This suggests that tantrums have something to do with the normal development of a child 's personality , rather than with the way they have been brought up — although the way they are handled can make things worse .
11 Learning how to use " real " dictionaries is a most important part of a child 's reference and research skills .
12 A decentralised model was adopted in the psychiatric department of a children 's hospital in which I worked .
13 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 .
14 Reading for pleasure is an essential part of a child 's development of language skills .
15 The unambiguous identity of a child 's father is crucial for the child 's own social identity .
16 Nothing could induce her to take even a morsel into her mouth — the imperious strength of a child 's sense of taste forbade it utterly .
17 Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Linguistic ability can not be measured directly , but only via elicitation procedures which attempt to make visible a certain aspect of a child 's language .
21 Accidental death of a child 's twin brother may be highly disturbing at five years , but have much less impact at five months .
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