Example sentences of "it [be] [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 2 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 3 | In fact he did n't know whether it were a child , he says you do n't know when it 's dark . |
| 4 | It 's a child really is n't it ? |
| 5 | So , to answer the question , it 's the child on the left who needs more calcium and iron . |
| 6 | It 's the child 's work . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the child , the one nobody ever saw ! ’ said the older man to the other . |
| 8 | It is the child who refuses to abandon Dreams — who stubbornly persists in believing that he or she will explore the depths of the Amazon , or will become a film director — who becomes the adult who will achieve those ambitions . |
| 9 | Under these circumstances the parents need to be able to take over from each other so that it is the child who tires and not the parents . |
| 10 | In the logical development of this view it is the child who must choose . |
| 11 | Implicit in some definitions for differentiated learning is the assumption that it is the child who has the ‘ problem ’ when there is a breakdown in learning . |
| 12 | Never the less , it is the child speaking we do n't put the words into their mouths and as such when they speak and when they write it down , it 's one of the , possibly one of the few chances of having primary evidence of how the child is at er , writing er , on an official document |
| 13 | It is the child who remembers nothing , |
| 14 | It was a child 's story about child abuse . |
| 15 | ‘ Doone is considering it was a child playing out a fantasy , ’ I said . |
| 16 | It was n't a baby either , it was a child of about three , and what 's more it was a boy with a shock of fair hair . |
| 17 | It was a child 's life they were talking about , after all . |
| 18 | The dress lay on the floor and my mother picked it up tenderly , as though it was a child . |
| 19 | For a moment , it was a child 's voice , just behind her shoulder , but then it was old , and quavery-y , and a million miles away . |
| 20 | She took her foot off the accelerator and put it on the brake , and as the car slowed she could see now that it was a child , a toddler with a red woolly hat on . |
| 21 | If it was a child I 'd say here you sit up properly . |
| 22 | It was the child he had desired . |
| 23 | It might have been dubious to have had any of the characters holding the scissors , but because it was the child of the foursome doing it , that made it an even bigger mistake , which I accepted , putting it down totally to inexperience on my behalf . |
| 24 | It was the child that had to have first consideration , and what had I got to offer it that justified my bringing it into the world ? |