Example sentences of "a child ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading for pleasure is an essential part of a child 's development of language skills . |
| 2 | This process involves the combination of love and discipline in a secure and balanced family environment where both parents are present to contribute to a child 's development into maturity . |
| 3 | The Guyanese girl struck with a hard , angry scrape and in the flare he saw that there was a child 's head on a bolster at the end of the small hump . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Under the Children Act 1989 a child 's lack of suitable education had ceased to be a specific ground for taking him/her into care . |
| 6 | The formal duties of the conference are to decide whether or not to place a child 's name on the Child Protection Register and , if so , to appoint a ‘ key worker ’ who then assumes the main responsibility for overall coordination of any subsequent work with the child and the family . |
| 7 | When abuse or potential abuse is confirmed the conference may decide to place a child 's name on the child protection register . |
| 8 | In R v London Borough of Harrow , ex pDeal [ 1989 ] FCR 729 the Court of Appeal confirmed that judicial review would lie if a decision to place a child 's name on the register could be shown to be utterly unreasonable . |
| 9 | In much the same vein , one LEA considered recently a draft of a newsletter to parents outlining the implication of those rights so far as a child 's education in their early years was concerned . |
| 10 | Article 42 went on to give an almost supplementary right to the state in providing for a child 's education by acknowledging the right of parents to school their children in their own home should they wish it . |
| 11 | It would probably be true to say that most woodwork projects around the house , from making a child 's desk to forming a stud partition wall , involve straight rather than curved cutting of wood . |
| 12 | The rest of this chapter and the following chapter provide a more detailed account of the processes which are involved in a child 's mastery of language from the perspective of learning theory , the acquisition of abstract rules and developmental change . |
| 13 | He argues that such procedures and the decisions about a child 's acceptability within mainstream education which may follow from them , are underpinned by competing philosophies about a child 's acceptability as a human being . |
| 14 | He argues that such procedures and the decisions about a child 's acceptability within mainstream education which may follow from them , are underpinned by competing philosophies about a child 's acceptability as a human being . |
| 15 | One popular technique is to measure a child 's ability with respect to a number of relatively discrete aspects of language and then to target specific areas for intervention . |
| 16 | It may have had a different meaning in a different place ( e.g. " cot " means a child 's bed in British English , but also a bed for adults in Indian English ) , or at a different time ( e.g. " gentle " used to carry the meaning of " upper class " , as in " gentry " , but which now can be used as an approving description — something like " sensitive " — of anyone 's character ) . |
| 17 | The validity of the LIT is based upon the existing research which supports imitation as an index of a child 's knowledge of grammar and the high correlations obtained when scores on the LIT were compared with other measures of language production . |
| 18 | GeoSafari ( above ) from Educational Insights is an electronic geography game that extends a child 's knowledge of the world . |
| 19 | For example , he seemed to be advocating no advice from the teacher in a child 's selection of books . |
| 20 | Elicitation procedures which measure a child 's comprehension of spoken language generally only require a relatively simple response . |
| 21 | Graham Davis , professor of psychology at Leicester University , said : ‘ To determine a child 's grasp of events they would probably undergo a straightforward IQ assessment . |
| 22 | Similarly , contextual support and existing levels of shared understanding about routines mean that the adult is well placed to endow a child 's utterance with meanings which extend or elaborate on those expressed . |
| 23 | ‘ If a child 's sense of right and wrong is based on religion , what happens if they later reject God ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In addition , it is an assumption that precludes them , to a large extent , from beginning to get to grips with the language- based problems that learners might experience and providing teachers with useful insights into how linguistic factors might help or hinder a child 's progress at school . |
| 27 | Such a viewpoint is mirrored in the legal procedures , which put an emphasis on a child 's return to school via sanctions against parents as the solution to individual cases of truancy . |
| 28 | Lawyers may find it helpful to employ communication techniques more commonly used by other child care professionals to ascertain a child 's degree of understanding . |
| 29 | It was a child 's story about child abuse . |
| 30 | There is no legal requirement for a child 's evidence to be corroborated in civil proceedings . |