Example sentences of "for a [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a schooled child the probability was increased threefold ; for an unschooled child , it was increased sixfold ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 2 | Such a night for a ten-year-old child to be out on the North Sea , as by now she must be , if contrary winds had not driven the ship back into port . |
| 3 | But parents ‘ should not hold prejudiced views about the other race which might be uncomfortable for a mixed-race child ’ . |
| 4 | It enjoyed a prolonged spell of popularity — at least among adults — despite the very high proportion of poems with titles such as ‘ The Day of Judgement ’ , ‘ A Child 's Grave ’ or ‘ For a Dying Child ’ . |
| 5 | If we believe that the child should be placed transracially as an alternative to institutional care , then social workers must resist the massive denial or evasion of the negative consequences of some transracial placements for black children when the substitute parents have not been prepared or perhaps are very unsuitable to care for a black child . |
| 6 | They must take a leading role in giving direction to families who have expressed interest in providing a home for a black child . |
| 7 | The basis for selection of materials varies between mainly content based criteria ( e.g. what scientific knowledge and ways of thinking are most appropriate to the present and subsequent experience of the child ) , and mainly process based criteria ( e.g. what thought processes are necessary for a primary child to develop and what knowledge and experience must therefore be selected to form a content from which this development can best be effected ) . |
| 8 | Of employed women who needed to make arrangements for a pre-school child , 34 per cent used the child 's grandmother and 9 per cent used another relative . |
| 9 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 10 | One hundred fundraisers who took part in the Building Blocks Appeal to raise £750,000 for a new child assessment centre received a limited edition Wedgwood plate as a thank you for their hard work and generosity . |
| 11 | Clearly , this is not practical in terms of safety or comfort for a small child . |
| 12 | It is one of the most popular butchers in the area and it is easy for a small child to slip out unnoticed . |
| 13 | Small tee shirt in white one for a small child is n't it ? |
| 14 | There was a greater choice in colour and one could now acquire a purple cashmere for one 's wife or a navy serge for a deceased child . |
| 15 | Willingness is essential for a good child 's pony , and one would think necessary , although perhaps to a lesser degree , for most adults to really enjoy riding too . |
| 16 | TABLE 10 SAMPLE SCORE-SHEET FOR A HYPERACTIVE CHILD |
| 17 | Low birth weight is not only associated with high perinatal mortality but also with a much higher risk of dying during infancy , especially for a male child . |
| 18 | Later we explained about the difficulties of being a single parent ; of financial strain , of the unsatisfactory life for a young child of being in a day-nursery from early morning till evening , and returning with an exhausted and lonely mother to a one-roomed flat . |
| 19 | The aim of treatment is not for a young child to lose weight as it would be in an adult , but to maintain their weight or make below normal weight gain ( Dietz 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Can I afford to wait for a young child to discover such procedures ? |
| 21 | Yeah , I , you may laugh but you see if you 're writing stories for a , for a young child then you 've got to be explicit , you 've got to be colourful and you 've got to talk in a basic language that that child will talk that like that at that age . |
| 22 | Fifty miles is a long way for a young child to go alone . ’ |
| 23 | and it 's an ordeal for a young child |
| 24 | ‘ Nana is too strict and too hard for a little child all alone like you . |
| 25 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 26 | No donation is too small when just 4p buys a meal for a starving child , 84p feeds one person for one week and £8.72 is the weekly shopping bill for a family of four . |
| 27 | One meal for a starving child costs just 4p . |
| 28 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 29 | And £18.50 is enough to pay for a year 's supply of medicine and special foods for a sick child in San José . |
| 30 | If the items truly reflect a developmental sequence , then , it is argued , the items immediately following the last items ticked , for a given child , provide the best focus for intervention . |