Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] a child " in BNC.

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1 Mr Randolph 's face looked like a child 's before a wrapped-up present .
2 I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia .
3 Whatever the circumstances , a solicitor should always consider whether a child can be protected in any other way before confidentiality is breached .
4 What happens if a child inadvertently swallows a lot of homoeopathic tablets ?
5 You can imagine what happens if a child is undergoing surgery or is on a life support machine when the electricity is cut . ’
6 Similarly , choice of the appropriate parts to bolt together must be made if a child is copying a model from the drawings usually supplied with a kit ( involving size , shape and matching ) .
7 Having looked at research and related policy and practice of child care in the community and what happens before a child is received into care , the next chapters then deal with a range of issues which are related to what happens when children and young people are in care .
8 The plea came after a child broke his leg after falling out of a tree at St John 's School in Cherwell Heights in Banbury .
9 Her own childhood was evidence enough of the emotional harm which can be wrought when a child is passed from one parental figure to another .
10 Is what happens when a child is confused .
11 In one case , noted earlier , an order was made when a child from a good home was kept away from school because of the parents ' opposition to comprehensive schools .
12 Basically Tests are to be done as worksheets in the classroom just as any other worksheet and would be done , to see if a child has understood the work taught .
13 Simple tests to see that your baby 's sight is developing as it should be are carried out at her normal child health clinic checks , but a detailed examination by an eye specialist wo n't be given until a child is between three or four years old .
14 Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control .
15 A situation can be envisaged where a child commits an offence at the age of eight and then offends no more , but is kept subject to a supervision requirement for a number of years for his ‘ care or protection ’ .
16 Hot food and drinks should not be placed on a table where there is an overhanging tablecloth ; in a second , a scalding accident can occur if a child pulls on the over-hanging end of the cloth .
17 I mean I yo , I would always say , you know if a child was borderline
18 Its child protection procedures have information about what to do if a child is worried about HIV , and how to make an appropriate referral if HIV/AIDS came up as an issue for child who has been sexually abused .
19 Because what you choose to do in the next few minutes could decide whether a child will live or die .
20 In the section on behavioural development , workers or carers are asked to mark whether a child suffers form patterns such as marked clinging , eating disorders or tantrums on a sliding scale ranging from often to never .
21 Another symptom is writing numbers or letters backwards — again a common enough thing to do when a child is learning to write , particularly if he or she is left-handed , or perhaps dyslexic ; and probably most absurd of all , children who refer to television characters as real people are showing signs of abuse .
22 Thereafter no court in the United Kingdom was called upon to consider whether a child could sue in negligence for injuries sustained while in its mother 's womb until last year .
23 This test ( Fenn 1979 ) was designed to determine whether a child who is able to understand single words can also understand the relationships which are expressed by different forms of word order .
24 A conference may be convened before a child is actually born if there is sufficient concern about future risk .
25 This asks whether a child 's identity is influenced by nature — through hormone levels and other biological aspects or by nurturing — through socialisation and the way a child is treated by its parents and other influential people .
26 The authors suggest that the lists can contribute towards decisions on disapplications and modifications : ‘ These should help to decide whether a child is capable of reaching ATs in the areas covered by the scales ’ ( Webster and Webster 1990 : 9 ) .
27 The relationship between ‘ cause ’ and ‘ effect ’ is illustrated when a child 's action ‘ causes ’ a particular event or ‘ effect ’ to happen .
28 In particular the fearful and horrifying episodes of life with their accompanying pain are played back so that time after time we are made to suffer the same agony that we felt as a child when we had the original experience .
29 Criteria were divided between two types : primary ( child care ) criteria which concentrated on assessing familial circumstances likely to pertain if a child were to remain at home ; and secondary ( disclosure ) criteria which either substantiated or refuted children 's and young people 's disclosures .
30 In assessing whether a child has satisfied a statement , teachers are asked to record attainments as ‘ emerging ’ or ‘ mastered ’ .
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