Example sentences of "the young child " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will certainly play a very important part in the life of the young child and provide a valuable service for his family . |
| 2 | And he sent them to Bethlehem and said , ‘ Go and search diligently for the young child ; and when ye have found him , bring me word again , that I may come and worship him also . ’ |
| 3 | When they had heard the king , they departed ; and lo , the star , which they saw in the east , went before them , till it came and stood over where the young child was . |
| 4 | And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh . |
| 5 | And when they were departed , behold , the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream saying , ‘ Arise , and take the young child and his mother , and flee into Egypt , and be thou there until I bring thee word , for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him . ’ |
| 6 | And when they were departed , behold , the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream saying , ‘ Arise , and take the young child and his mother , and flee into Egypt , and be thou there until I bring thee word , for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him . ’ |
| 7 | When he arose , he took the young child and his mother by night , and departed into Egypt . |
| 8 | Complications at the time of birth may cause mental handicap in the young child which might have been a normal foetus . |
| 9 | The young child will feel that he is being pushed out of the way to make room for someone much more important . |
| 10 | First comes the young child 's attachment to parents — a growing bond of affection , respect and loyalty . |
| 11 | When the President 's Committee on Mental Retardation proclaimed in the early 1970s that the intellectual similarity of parents and children was ‘ mainly because of the environment that the parents create for the young child ’ , the decisive evidence was Heber 's Milwaukee Project . |
| 12 | The young child familiar with the nursery rhyme : The Man in the Moon Came down too soon And asked the way to Norwich sees a jovial face . |
| 13 | During the first three years of life the young child will venture out from and return to the secure base of a parent 's presence when conducting expeditions into unfamiliar territory . |
| 14 | Very gradually , the secure base that the mother provided ‘ out there ’ becomes absorbed and assimilated within the young child so that she is ‘ in here ’ and does not always have to be kept in sight . |
| 15 | But none of these factors is likely to be as potent an influence upon future relationships as the early family experiences absorbed by the young child . |
| 16 | At the age when it first occurs in respect of strong contrary feelings , the young child needs his parents to understand that the greater the yearning , the greater the protest . |
| 17 | The structures of cities and traffic impose fairly tight limits on the young child 's range of movement . ’ |
| 18 | After all , the relationship is a fairly remote one : the young child equates a sequence of consonants and vowels with a physical object , which is by no means an obvious connection . |
| 19 | Chomsky 's claim that the young child is exposed to degenerate samples of language which distort the relationship between surface forms and meanings has been challenged by a considerable amount of recent research . |
| 20 | The importance of this technique is that the young child experiences stimulation of the normal feeding and sucking patterns which prevents reluctance to eat once the operation is completed and the child has recovered . |
| 21 | Societal expectations are changing in Britain and the fat toddler is no longer looked on with affection , but some cultural minority groups still feel that the young child should be fed and pampered . |
| 22 | Some problems about identity arise with the young child in the context of home and school , and others occur in later life , for example on retirement . |
| 23 | To paraphrase Mr Polly , it 's only school that turns the young child from someone who wonders at the marvels around him or her into someone who sees them only in terms of history and geography . |
| 24 | To those who , like me , find it difficult to relate the education of the young child to a future market place and to the , as yet unknown , technological changes which the last decade of this century and the first decade of the next will bring , the debate is somewhat arid . |
| 25 | He walked up to the pram and looked down at the young child . |
| 26 | The young child was more interested in her father who was busy cutting slabs of meat into small portions for the next day 's pies . |
| 27 | In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority . |
| 28 | For pre-industrial society , youth was a long transition period lasting from the first signs of independence of the young child to marriage . |
| 29 | If this is how the young child construes what is happening , it could begin to account for the response that four-year-olds typically give . |
| 30 | Further , if the transformation of the array is effected accidentally rather than deliberately , then the young child 's construal of the context might differ . |