Example sentences of "expect [prep] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | We canna have everybody putting eights , nines and tens and nobody putting ones , twos , and threes because then it it becomes meaningless er , in relation to the section it 's got to bear some relation to what sort of standard you expect from a child at at such |
| 2 | The health of an eight year old diabetic child must , for example , be judged by reference to the standard one might reasonably expect of a child of that age with diabetes and not a healthy eight year old . |
| 3 | This was written late in his life and with his own declared interest in socialism and sociology there is a tendency to see things rather more ‘ socially ’ than one might expect from a child of the local corner shop . |
| 4 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 5 | How many times have we heard comments along the lines of ‘ What can you expect from a child from that kind of family ? ’ |