Example sentences of "[vb base] to [art] child [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Little is known about the effect of different care settings on the children 's education though the fact that many foster parents and residential staff have had limited educational opportunities themselves may influence them in the importance they attach to the children 's success in school .
2 When later attending the funeral of her ten-year-old nephew , she overheard the officiating clergyman say to the child 's mother , ‘ Now you must n't cry ’ .
3 If parents do not care and praise and listen to a child 's reading , schoolteachers ca n't easily make them literate .
4 For example it may influence the availability of such services as play-groups and nursery schools when young children have wider opportunities to practice communicating ; new types of activities and different relationships can be explored in these settings which add to the child 's capacity to communicate and are critical at this stage of development .
5 These would include such features as : allowing the child to initiate a high proportion of interactions : providing conversational bridges — " turnabouts " as Kaye and Charney ( 1980 ) call them — which both respond to the child 's previous utterance and invite him or her to say more ; making reference predominantly to the child 's or to joint activities ; and responding to the child 's utterances with extensions , which both confirm the acceptability of his or her contribution and help them to pursue the topic further .
6 And he 's pledged five per cent of tonight 's take to the Children 's Aid Fund , which means — ’
7 These thumb-nail sketches show four components which contribute to the child 's ‘ success ’ in the educational system .
8 Under section 7 of the Bill , four types of court order relate to the child 's upbringing .
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