Example sentences of "[be] that the child " in BNC.

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1 The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike .
2 There is a lot to be learnt from standing back and observing the way a child plays with shape and form , but it may be that the child will want to talk about it afterwards , or ask for help to find particular shape materials as he works .
3 It may be that the child only recognises a particular picture in a particular book as an appropriate context for the word ‘ boat ’ ; or she may be able to recognise sailing boats but not canoes and motor boats .
4 This looks as if the intervention is effective but it may be that the child is just responding to rewards rather than learning new behaviour .
5 Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ?
6 Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ?
7 One possibility would be that the children lacked the ability to think about epistemic states , such as knowing , thinking and believing .
8 The answer he gives is that the child freely enters the make-believe world secure in the signals from the real world that the real world is continuing to exist .
9 One advantage of a naming ceremony is that the child can be given ‘ godparents ’ to turn to for support .
10 Often the result is that the child , and subsequently the adult , in order to avoid punishment , will suppress feelings which might in fact be quite normal and natural , and indeed necessary to the human condition .
11 The only significance is that the child is given the name Jesus , which means ‘ God is salvation ’ .
12 A second possibility is that the child is able to employ a set of relatively sophisticated strategies for analysing adult speech .
13 Since the assumption is that the child will carry around any new linguistic knowledge , there will be no need to take any account of the environment within which the teaching takes place .
14 The problem is that the child throws toys every time he asks for a biscuit and is refused .
15 The current problem is that the child takes all his clothes off when with his father in the supermarket .
16 ‘ What is particularly reprehensible is that the child sought counselling when he came to you about signs of puberty .
17 ( Another implication of this way of looking at the origin of moral talk is that the child will learn her primary duties in familial contacts with her parents , close friends , relations , and the family pets .
18 The other pattern is that the child has psychiatric or psychological problems or is dependent on drugs or alcohol .
19 What has happened , as it so often does , is that the child knows come , has adding ing , and has not recognised , or does not know , that the e should disappear .
20 What is implied by the notion of the super-ego is that the child may react less to the actual external forms of its parents , and more to its own projection of them , interiorized as its moral order .
21 The reason is that the child usually sits on the floor to put her shoes on and her knees point outwards .
22 The result is that the children learn how to control dogs and the dogs learn that obeying children is simply part of life .
23 One is that the children who are caught have to go again until they manage to sit down before being touched .
24 Part of the problem is that the children become dependent on the parents to wake them and take no responsibility themselves .
25 What I hope ( and would like to think ) is happening is that the children are aware of the onlookers , but that they 're making a choice to stay in role ; that their engagement with the issues and the problems of the drama is what is keeping them intent on their work .
26 ‘ The truth of the matter is that the children remain in care after all the evidence has been considered by the children 's panel and the courts . ’
27 It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists .
28 It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists .
29 What she really meant was that the child 's affections were being alienated ; this was not wholly a fair charge .
30 What concerned him more than it did George was that the child would be a boy .
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