Example sentences of "[noun] on a child [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do the movements ‘ convey information ’ to fellow workers in the hive in any more semantic a fashion than , say , a bruise on a child 's face conveys to his mother the information that he has had a nasty bump ? |
| 2 | Many beautiful animal portraits have been submitted over the months of the competition , but it usually takes that special ‘ something ’ to create the magic of a prize-winning photograph — perhaps a bird captured in mid-flight , or the moment of sheer wonder on a child 's face as it encounters one of the several animal species now allowed to roam freely in the zoo grounds . |
| 3 | About twelve worshippers dotted the empty , evenly-spaced pews , like lonely beads on a child 's abacus . |
| 4 | The pioneers of early education , while differing from each other in methods and materials , essentially look what has come to be known as a ‘ child-centred ’ approach , wherein it was paramount to base education on a child 's ‘ nature and needs ’ rather than on some preconceived theory . |
| 5 | Such a viewpoint is mirrored in the legal procedures , which put an emphasis on a child 's return to school via sanctions against parents as the solution to individual cases of truancy . |
| 6 | It is interesting and important to note that , even when Piaget 's views on a child 's conceptual development are still accepted , the danger of omitting theology from the young child 's RE is becoming more widely appreciated . |
| 7 | It would have been wrong to propose abolition , and in any case no member of the Commission in fact believed that it should be illegal for a parent to spend money on a child 's education . |
| 8 | Not entirely ; to begin with we might take a pragmatic line in the light of new knowledge about the long-term effects of such treatment on a child 's subsequent development . |
| 9 | Il-Quccija is an old Maltese custom — a party on a child 's first birthday . ’ |