Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] child 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , imitation makes special demands upon the child 's pragmatic skills and may not , therefore , always provide an accurate indication of the child 's ability to produce language spontaneously ( Ingram 1974 ) or of the child 's underlying linguistic competence ( Slobin and Welsh 1973 ) . |
| 2 | There was a picture of the terrace on which meals were taken ‘ except during thunderstorms ’ and several of the garden , but none of the kitchen or of the children 's accommodation . |
| 3 | ( Note that Liz Waterland has modified her idea of apprenticeship since this 1985 pamphlet appeared : ‘ It seems to me now that the text , whether in print or in the child 's own creation , is the guide and demonstrator , the adult and the child together are the apprentices — albeit at different stages of competence — who are feeling their way towards knowledge of the meaning of words ’ ( Waterland , 1986 , p. 147 ) . |
| 4 | There is , as we have seen , no developmental point nor chronological age at which sexuality or sexual considerations " become " significant in the child or in the child 's relationships . |
| 5 | No differences were detected between case and control parents with respect to their own health or the numbers of diagnostic radiographs they reported before their child was conceived , or habits such as swimming in local rivers or canals , or in the children 's histories of being breast fed , their preschool activities , allergies , or viral infections . |
| 6 | The divorce stage no longer requires a court appearance , except for the children 's appointment in chambers , at which the petitioner attends . |
| 7 | This shows a developing scale of value , not dissimilar to the adult 's hierarchy , although in the child 's case there will special reasons , fortified by fairy stories , for promoting animals . ) |
| 8 | However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education . |
| 9 | The deadline for the adult section will be 8th June , and for the children 's section 15th June ; the final selection will be announced at the end of July . |
| 10 | The evenings will be hosted by David English , a cricketer ( formerly with Middlesex and now captain of the Eric Clapton XI ) ; journalist ( on the London Evening News ) ; actor ( Lisztomania , the stiff-upper-lip Captain Andrew in A Bridge Too Far ) ; scriptwriter ( the Timothy Dalton vehicle Hawks ) ; and author ( of The Legend , an animated book on the Bee-Gees , and of the children 's Bunbury Tales ) . |
| 11 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 12 | But flower seeds in pretty packets are often displayed in shops alongside sweets , and within a child 's reach . |
| 13 | ( e ) Transfer to the High Court A county court may transfer proceedings to the High Court if it is appropriate and in the child 's interests for the case to be determined there ( APO , art 12 ) . |
| 14 | ( f ) Transfer from the High Court The High Court may transfer proceedings down to a care centre if it is both appropriate and in the child 's interests to do so ( APO , art 13 ) . |
| 15 | Other patients were sent to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and to the Children 's Hospital at Great Ormond Street at a similar cost . |
| 16 | This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family . |
| 17 | A major problem arises in the adoption of a signing approach , and that is its effectiveness , not from the teacher or parent ‘ s point of view but from the child 's point of view , as a device for carrying the cognitive processes . |
| 18 | But from the child 's point of view , what might be going on ? |
| 19 | Once again , it is necessary that the separate items should be demonstrably reliable and valid , since specific interpretations may well be based not on the accumulation of correct and incorrect responses , but on the child 's pattern of scores . |
| 20 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 21 | At Edgehill , the science department was divided into biological and environmental sciences , instead of the traditional biology , physics and chemistry ; the head teacher was a conscious advocate of innovation in comprehensive schooling ; in the third school , Meadowvale , the science department had decided to redraft its entire first and second year science curriculum , in part because of the children 's response to the VISTA visits organized by GIST . |
| 22 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 23 | Sexual dysfunction may arise from fear of pregnancy or parenthood , anxiety as to the possibility of venereal disease , guilt as to a child 's disability , or anger at the sex role thrust upon one by society . |
| 24 | Local authorities are expected to resolve any questions as to a child 's ordinary residence by agreement , failing which the Secretary of State will decide ( s30(2) ) . |