Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a child [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landscape is as simple , naive and charming as a child 's painting . |
| 2 | Oralists believe that every deaf child of normal intelligence can learn lipreading and speech , and that signing and fingerspelling are harmful to a child 's learning process . |
| 3 | The rest of this chapter and the following chapter provide a more detailed account of the processes which are involved in a child 's mastery of language from the perspective of learning theory , the acquisition of abstract rules and developmental change . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Spring leaves of pure sap green silver-haired as a child 's arm . |
| 6 | I normally knit two pieces of stocking stitch to represent a back and a front , or occasionally knit two backs suitable for a child 's jumper . |
| 7 | The Children Act demands service providers are sensitive to a child 's race and culture while the NHS and Community care Act says local authorities must take the needs of black and minority ethnic groups into account when producing community care plans . |