Example sentences of "child [unc] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) Interim care and supervision orders Under s38(1) ( 2 ) the court can make an interim care or supervision order whenever the proceedings are adjourned provided it is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the child 's circumstances fall within the ambit of s31(2) . |
| 2 | She broke off as another memory stirred … that same evening , but later , raised voices coming from her mother 's room , her child 's feet pattering along the landing , peeping through a crack in the door … |
| 3 | They will use cash from their Prevention of Children 's Ailments appeal for the items . |
| 4 | A 10-point programme for children 's rights adopted at the summit included ( i ) the reduction of infant and under-five mortality by one-third to 50 and 70 per 1,000 respectively by the year 2000 ; ( ii ) the reduction by half of severe malnutrition in children under five ; and ( iii ) basic and primary education for at least 80 per cent of children . |
| 5 | At the east end of the south side of the De La Warr vault at Withyham , Sussex , is a group of children 's coffins dating from the early seventeenth century . |
| 6 | Light projects from its large , woodframe windows , offering a selective view of the rooms inside : big , busy , open-plan spaces , filled with primary-coloured art pieces ; children 's paintings tacked to the walls ; sculptures , nick-nacks , anything , everything . |
| 7 | You wo n't have to spend the entire holiday peering into that steamy little porthole , watching the children 's vests revolving in the suds . |
| 8 | He was aware of the room 's clutter , the central wooden table still covered with the remains of their midday meal , an assortment of plates smeared with tomato sauce , a half-eaten sausage , a large bottle of orangeade uncapped ; the children 's clothes thrown over the back of a low nursing chair before the fireplace , of the smell of milk and bodies and wood smoke . |
| 9 | and you can still hear the children 's voices wafting through the double glazing . |
| 10 | I could almost smell the peat and oil from the lamps ; the flour and the sugar in the big bins and sacks ; and hear children 's voices echoing through the rambling old house . |
| 11 | Therefore when , in 1926 , the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry ( largely at the instigation of William Beveridge , one of its members ) recommended the introduction of a system of children 's allowances financed by the mining industry itself but with a hint that it might be accompanied by a reduction in wage rates , the Miners ' Federation was only prepared to accept the proposal if financed out of general taxation . |