Example sentences of "place [prep] a child " in BNC.

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1 If , for example , eligibility for a grant for education , or for council housing , or for employment in the public service , or for a place for a child at a school of first choice , were to be assessed by reference to the citizenship record of the applicant , then this would put considerable pressure on many people to perform these ‘ voluntary obligations ’ .
2 A child is happier in the home environment , and home is the best place for a child when undergoing treatment for cancer or leukaemia .
3 The findings were documented in a report A Place For All Our Children ( CCUF 1983 ) and an analysis was prepared of the practical and bureaucratic problems in gaining an ordinary childcare place for a child with special needs , with suggestions for how these might be overcome .
4 While some workers believe that the best place for a child is within a family , and that it is better for a child to be placed transracially than to have no family , anxiety is increasing about the outcome of transracial placements .
5 First , is the best place for a child with a family ?
6 With the wind whistling in the trees outside their window and the night-time cries of owls and other creatures , Park House could be a creepy place for a child .
7 At the end of 1987 , three years after the conference ‘ A place For All Our Children ’ , one council day centre offered a place to a child with a ‘ learning difficulty ’ .
8 All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task .
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