Example sentences of "[det] [conj] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each child born in the industrialised world consumes between 20 and 40 times as much as a child living in one of the poorer countries . |
| 2 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
| 3 | You are treated very much as a child even when you 're sixteen , seventeen , eighteen years old . |
| 4 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 5 | All that a child has a right to claim from his father is nourishment and education and the things nature furnishes for the support of life but he has no right to demand rule or dominion from him . |
| 6 | The musical follows Chaplin 's career from the time , when little more than a child , he appeared on the stage at an Aldershot theatre in 1894 when his mother — a music hall artist — lost her voice , until in 1972 the film industry recognised his tremendous creative work with the presentation of a Special Academy Award . |
| 7 | ‘ She would be little more than a child if she has lived , ’ he said . |
| 8 | She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes . |
| 9 | She could n't have been more than ten then and by our standards would be scarcely more than a child now . |
| 10 | After all , give someone who is barely more than a child a high-powered ‘ toy ’ and there is bound to be trouble when they go out to play with it . |
| 11 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 12 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 13 | ‘ And not much more than a child herself — only five years older than Tommy . ’ |
| 14 | And the creature is surely little more than a child . |
| 15 | Raynor said , ‘ He had with him a young boy , little more than a child , it seemed . |
| 16 | He sat forward , squinting through a blood haze at what looked no more than a child . |
| 17 | But Kim was n't more than a child . |
| 18 | I am scarcely more than a child . |
| 19 | She did n't even exist in the equation , since , as far as he was concerned , she was little more than a child . |
| 20 | I was not much more than a child after all . |
| 21 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 22 | ‘ And it 's not a fit place for a young girl to have a baby , ’ snapped McAllister , who had just seen that his patient was little more than a child , ‘ but she 's having one , all the same . |
| 23 | She 's barely more than a child , he told himself again . |
| 24 | She remembered Edmund , little more than a child , grave and courteous , thanking the Empress for her hospitality . |
| 25 | ‘ My mother died when I was little more than a child , ’ he informed her quietly . |
| 26 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 27 | For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age . |
| 28 | Because the negative evaluation was not as strong as it is now , Voltaire was able to talk about justifiable prejudices , such as those that a child might have in favour of a teacher . |
| 29 | Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child . |