Example sentences of "[noun] in a child [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the first heights heading north , the sails of the Adventure School 's windsurfers may be seen like pictures in a child 's storybook on the glimmering water . |
| 2 | Just as there appear to be no rubicons in a child 's cerebral development , so also there were probably no such rubicons phylogenetically . |
| 3 | For example , he seemed to be advocating no advice from the teacher in a child 's selection of books . |
| 4 | If the children had found it and Rachel had pointed it at Matthew in a child 's game , I dread to think about the consequences . |
| 5 | While shaping describes a mechanism which could theoretically account for numerous changes in a child 's language , Skinner acknowledges that it is a somewhat laborious and inefficient way of learning . |
| 6 | At the same time , successive items on the test do not measure changes in a child 's linguistic ability so much as the development of conceptual abilities which underlie the acquisition of abstract vocabulary items . |
| 7 | These figures give strong support for the view that the RDLS measures a child 's increasing control of language for cognitive functions , but there is little evidence of the test 's ability to identify specific areas of language functioning or its sensitivity to changes in a child 's command of specific language forms or other language functions . |
| 8 | While recognising the undeniable ( if somewhat over-stressed ) value of milk in a child 's nutritional development , the Board of Education and Ministry of Health also appreciated that greater milk consumption would be a way of reducing the surplus stocks then being held by producers . |
| 9 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 10 | The ruling meant that cheap tomato sauce could replace a healthier vegetable in a child 's diet . |
| 11 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 12 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 13 | Four key stages in a child 's education are defined , ending at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 . |
| 14 | From these memories he developed a theory that there were three main stages in a child 's development . |
| 15 | These problems may then lead on to additional difficulties at school , especially if the teaching staff mistake linguistic delay as indicative of limited intelligence , or interpret differences in a child 's ability to use language as a sign of impaired ability to learn language ( Heath 1983 ) . |
| 16 | It acknowledges that pedagogical functions are dispersed among a range of people and influences which assume significance in a child 's life , ranging from family members to peers , formal and informal educators as well as organizations like the churches and the media . |
| 17 | A vision in a child 's eye . |
| 18 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 19 | When each chart was finished , the Met Officer on duty had to join up all the points of equal barometric pressure , rather like joining numbers in a child 's drawing book , and a weather map would emerge . |
| 20 | ‘ We should address ourselves to those faculties in a child 's mind , which are first awakened by nature , and consequently first admit of cultivation , that is to say , the memory and the imagination . ’ |
| 21 | Just occasionally , however , drastic discontinuities in a child 's upbringing do occur and are thus of special interest in attempts to understand the role of early experience . |
| 22 | As we shall see , these days the concept of parental responsibility seems to demand considerably more involvement in a child 's education than simply packing him or her off to school every day . |
| 23 | In the first phase , from the early 1960's to the early 1970's , attitudes towards the role of linguistic factors in a child 's development were deeply influenced by the ideas of Basil Bernstein and his circle . |
| 24 | Stadtverkehr im Wandel meaning Town traffic in change began by stressing the role of streets in a child 's growth as it learned ‘ to be at home in the town ’ . |
| 25 | If we relate these figures to others , for example the recent finding that young children spend 25 hours per week watching television ( 1300 hours per 365 days ) we realise that , while schooling may provide a significant element in a child 's formative years , it is by no means the only or most pervasive one — nor is it , for many children , necessarily the most important . |
| 26 | Negative methods of responding in marking are likely to produce sterile , cumulative consequences in a child 's writing : pupils quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher and merely aim to fulfil those expectations . |
| 27 | RESCUERS last night told how they coaxed a man out of a suicide bid as he drifted half a mile out to sea in a child 's dinghy . |
| 28 | We may eventually need to relate these factors to one another or to other events in a child 's life , such as educational progress , length of stay in care or destination on exit . |
| 29 | That crucial time in a child 's life when he has the ability to understand that his parents and teachers are trying to prepare him for his adult life , will not necessarily be related to his age . |
| 30 | Multiple or recurrent bacterial infections ( any combination of > 2 within a two year period ) of the following types in a child < 13 years of age : septicaemia , pneumonia , meningitis , bone or joint infection , or abscess of an internal organ or body cavity ( excluding otitis media or superficial skin or mucosal abscesses ) , caused by Haemophilus , Streptococcus ( including pneumococcus ) , or other pyogenic bacteria . |