Example sentences of "[prep] a child 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a Children 's Hearing |
| 2 | This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny . |
| 3 | Collections may be made following a child 's interest in say ‘ shiny ’ things or from the teacher 's suggestion , ‘ Let's collect things that are made of wood ’ or ‘ things with lines on ’ . |
| 4 | Judge Kazuo Kato declared that ‘ having received the trust of the people , the state has the authority to determine the content of a child 's education ’ . |
| 5 | The rule , combined with the rule against hearsay which prevents criminal courts admitting evidence of a child 's interviews with social workers or psychiatrists , has made it impossible to prosecute many alleged child abusers . |
| 6 | The unambiguous identity of a child 's father is crucial for the child 's own social identity . |
| 7 | Dr John Bowlby was the author of a bestseller , Child Care And The Growth Of Love ( 1953 ) , which popularized the theory of Maternal Deprivation , the gist of which was — and is — that the first five years of a child 's life are crucial . |
| 8 | Elisabeth stopped to examine a stone the dimensions of a child 's bicycle wheel , in which a huge ammonite was embedded . |
| 9 | The traditional view of cell suicide focuses on development : it helps the tadpole to lose its tail ; it dissolves the tissues of the caterpillar when the time comes for change into a moth ; in a mother 's womb , it severs the webs between the digits of a child 's developing hands and feet . |
| 10 | Furthermore , for the first time the planned and negotiated sharing of a child 's care , through local authority provision of ‘ accommodation ’ is reframed as a form of support . |
| 11 | The latter , stripped of their powers to assume parental rights or to demand notice of a child 's removal from ‘ accommodation ’ , must work on the basis of negotiation and voluntary agreement . |
| 12 | Child welfare legislation therefore potentially addresses all aspects of a child 's development not covered by school legislation . |
| 13 | Tertiary prevention can be illustrated by the work of professionals in the children 's departments in the fifties and sixties , who increasingly intervened in family situations before the point of a child 's admission to care ( Donnison , 1975 ) . |
| 14 | Preventive action beyond the point of a child 's admission to care is seen as a fourth level of prevention . |
| 15 | His initial reservations expressed here suggest that he , like many of us , has spanned an era of reaction against the worst excesses of cut-throat competitiveness and artificiality of performance in favour of the process of a child 's personal experience . |
| 16 | A reassessment of statemented children must , in any event , take place within six months either side of a child 's fourteenth birthday . |
| 17 | As for Wolfgang 's opera all I can tell you is that , to put it shortly , the whole hell of musicians has arisen to prevent the display of a child 's ability . |
| 18 | I would therefore argue that one of the chief tasks of education , perhaps its overriding task , is the education and encouragement of a child 's imagination , so that he may not be a slave to a perception confined solely to the present , a perception that is little more than blindness . |
| 19 | The consequences of a child 's actions might be as follows : |
| 20 | The natural consequences of a child 's misbehaviour ( if not forestalled or prevented ) might be far from his or her liking . |
| 21 | However , there seems to be more to the formation of a child 's personality at birth than these two viewpoints — that we are either born as a blank sheet or that the formation we have is via our mother , and begins prior to our birth . |
| 22 | Example of a child 's work — Abbeydale School |
| 23 | Testing of children has always legitimately had separate purposes : diagnostic — to enable the teacher to calibrate their own assessment of a child 's difficulty and judge the next best line for development ; setting of tests to establish mastery of a particular piece of learning when of concept , skill or information ; and standardised to set one 's own information against some comparators . |
| 24 | Better than any other instrument available to teachers , then or now , tests would cut through the unpredictable circumstances of a child 's cultural background to the relatively stable aptitudes on which education builds . |
| 25 | Piaget believed that educational development had to come from within the child , through a process of building and testing hypotheses within the microworld of a child 's perceptions . |
| 26 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 27 | No valid consideration of the school curriculum can be made without consideration of a child 's view of causal relationships and no analysis of causal relationships in African children can be made without consideration of the nature of these spiritual beliefs . |
| 28 | Its place at the centre of government thinking was re-emphasised in April 1939 when the RCM was told that , henceforth , each guarantor would have to put up a deposit of £50 to support the cost of a child 's re-emigration . |
| 29 | In one sense it is fragile , for it has the naivety of a child 's game of ‘ let's play house ’ , with a little patch of ground called ‘ home ’ , set out with sticks and stones . |
| 30 | Reading for pleasure is an essential part of a child 's development of language skills . |