Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] a child " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 ) .
10 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 .
11 The forms also ask workers and carers to check whether a child knows how to cross the road safely or can make an emergency phone call .
12 Here is one of the standard procedures that is used to test whether a child has an adult-like appreciation of false belief .
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