Example sentences of "[noun] that a child [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was never asked to discuss the final Report with her or with Mr Baker , so I can not be sure about her reasons , but from her radio and television appearances it seemed she found repugnant our insistence that a child 's dialect is not inaccurate in its use of grammar and should be respected . |
| 2 | Should the suggestion be to drop the mother tongue , local patriotism is immediately aroused and a whole quantity of scientific and technical evidence brought to bear to prove the point that a child 's intellectual development is the fastest when instruction is provided in its own language . |
| 3 | ‘ It is of great importance that a child 's environment enables him to enlarge his living sphere , according to his own abilities and without being restrained by traffic , from his home surroundings to the neighbourhood and beyond . |
| 4 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 5 | Worse still , he implies that both the Needleman study and the more recent one by Bill Yule and Richard Lansdown provide evidence that a child 's lead content has more influences on intelligence and behaviour than do social and other factors . |
| 6 | It is contained in the old aphorism ‘ the child is father to the man ’ , and expresses the belief that a child 's experiences in the early years will leave a mark on him for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | The idea that a child 's intelligence might depend solely on the intelligences of his or her parents seems commonsensical : all around us we see clever kids born of clever parents . |
| 8 | ‘ I heard rumours in the street that a child 's body had been found in the river and I asked the police . |