Example sentences of "of a child [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This premise is in direct opposition to the view , currently fashionable , that defined and prescribed academic targets should be set for each stage of a child 's progress through school . |
| 2 | Learning how to use " real " dictionaries is a most important part of a child 's reference and research skills . |
| 3 | The Trustee Act 1925 , ss31-32 , should be extended ( see Williams on Wills 6th edn , Butterworths , 1987 , vol 2 , p1267 and 1275 ) if monies are to be retained until such child or children come of age , so that the trustees have flexibility in their use of both income and capital of a child 's share of the trust fund , as should the power of investment so that it is not limited by the Trustee Investments Act 1961. ( v ) Insurance — Section 19(1) of the Trustee Act 1925 limits a trustee 's power to insure to insurance against fire to three-quarters of the value of the property ; as the trustees will probably not have any cash , the occupier wife should be made responsible for insurance . |
| 4 | Child welfare legislation therefore potentially addresses all aspects of a child 's development not covered by school legislation . |
| 5 | Reading for pleasure is an essential part of a child 's development of language skills . |
| 6 | In the early stages of a child 's development the visual problem can be masked . |
| 7 | Part of a child 's development is the evolution of a concept called by psychologists the ‘ self . |
| 8 | In the first stages of a child 's head injury , staff here give vital support to the family . |
| 9 | Nothing could induce her to take even a morsel into her mouth — the imperious strength of a child 's sense of taste forbade it utterly . |
| 10 | But not entirely — outside on Madison Avenue is a huge lifesize model of a red fire engine , the work of Charles Ray , who says he tried to make an object that would embody a fundamental sense of ambition , in the form of a child 's toy . |
| 11 | Testing of children has always legitimately had separate purposes : diagnostic — to enable the teacher to calibrate their own assessment of a child 's difficulty and judge the next best line for development ; setting of tests to establish mastery of a particular piece of learning when of concept , skill or information ; and standardised to set one 's own information against some comparators . |
| 12 | Dr John Bowlby was the author of a bestseller , Child Care And The Growth Of Love ( 1953 ) , which popularized the theory of Maternal Deprivation , the gist of which was — and is — that the first five years of a child 's life are crucial . |
| 13 | The world is recent at the dawn of human history and also at the start of a child 's life because at both times it is perceived by new eyes . |
| 14 | The description of Tristan 's education given by the great medieval German poet Gottfried of Strasbourg bears witness to the fact that this change in the pattern of a child 's life could be intensely felt and vividly remembered . |
| 15 | Most of what is known about social development is based on the study of encounters between a child and one other person , yet much of a child 's life takes place in groups of more than two persons — within the family , the neighbourhood peer groups , the pre-school group , and so on . |
| 16 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 17 | The influential work of John Bowlby has led many people to believe that any kind of mother-child separation during the first few years of a child 's life should be avoided . |
| 18 | These are all features of a child 's life that they need . |
| 19 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 20 | This disregard of the family 's potential for constructive future contact where the question of the adequacy of a child 's parenting has arisen , has led to a polarisation of public care and private family life . |
| 21 | As for Wolfgang 's opera all I can tell you is that , to put it shortly , the whole hell of musicians has arisen to prevent the display of a child 's ability . |
| 22 | Elisabeth stopped to examine a stone the dimensions of a child 's bicycle wheel , in which a huge ammonite was embedded . |
| 23 | Her chin was like the heel of a child 's foot . |
| 24 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 25 | Throughout his lifetime he had been regarded as an excellently scientific psychologist who had shown that the level of a child 's intelligence has little to do with the child 's home environment ; instead it is a product of the intelligences of the child 's parents . |
| 26 | Judge Kazuo Kato declared that ‘ having received the trust of the people , the state has the authority to determine the content of a child 's education ’ . |
| 27 | In these schools , while national legislation will nudge staff to introduce procedures for involving and informing parents where this is required by law , it will not encourage them to go beyond such procedures to establish the kinds of voluntary open dialogue and day-to-day collaboration which can do so much to enhance the quality of a child 's education . |
| 28 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |
| 29 | How then to conceptualise works such as Polly Binns ' minimalist and rather beautiful series ‘ Overstrand to Side Strand ’ ( 1992 ) , white linen squares , slit , painted and stitched ; Beverley Clark 's untitled construction with its large wood-stained pieces of canvas threaded onto nylon , like the beads of a child 's necklace ; or Sally Freshwater 's snaking folds of linen held taut with rods , expanding across one wall of the Crafts Council gallery . |
| 30 | It tasted of candied peel and nuts , and she was reaching for another one when she saw that Lucenzo 's head had lifted at the sound of a child 's piping tones . |