Example sentences of "of [verb] [art] child " in BNC.

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1 The Hinches see sponsorship through ActionAid as the best way of helping a child and his or her community .
2 She is equally fascinated by the stone as a specimen and as a phenomenological object , but whereas those of us working in drama who might agree with the wisdom of this position tend to see ‘ personal engagement ’ with the world through dramatic action as a proper way of helping the child to know the world , Dorothy Heathcote tends to delay the phenomenological process by a deliberate depersonalising of objects .
3 A strategy using incentives is best restricted to ( and presented as ) a way of helping the child learn to do something which is very difficult , or as an appreciation of a special effort ( or sacrifice ) made .
4 It is then up to the teacher or therapist to help the parents accept that an assessment may be useful as a way of helping the child without necessarily providing a diagnostic label or a clear statement regarding the child 's future .
5 Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have .
6 Foster parents are paid a weekly allowance that covers the basic costs of maintaining a child , but care is taken to see that fostering does not become a materially profitable exercise .
7 Mother Francis the celibate nun who had never thought she could know the joy of seeing a child grow up in her care had loved Eve in a way that might well have made her blind to the feelings and sensitivities of other people .
8 Again from Australia had come Sister May Kenny with her method of nursing the child incessantly in the arms , massaging the withering limbs and gently lowering them into warm water .
9 After all these years of minding a child he would enjoy some intellectual companionship .
10 Alongside this aim is that of returning the children to their natural home wherever possible .
11 Then she warned other couples about the dangers of adopting a child from abroad .
12 The increased use of trained child care officers who had studied the growth and development of personality meant that more people were aware of the difficulty , if not the impossibility , of compensating a child for the break-up of his or her natural home .
13 What we can do is think about the meaning of play and fantasy , and the repercussions of denying a child the sort of toys and television-watching that is allowed to almost every other child .
14 Assumptions and expectations which lie behind an inter-agency approach require to be made more explicit in order that agencies , and individuals within agencies , are absolutely clear about where they stand , not only in relation to the paramount concern of protecting the child , but also in relation to each other .
15 While a broad historical trend was noted towards the limitation of the once near-absolute rights of parents over children by state agencies , with the declared objective of protecting the child 's interests and welfare , it seemed that in recent policies a number of different themes could be identified , involving potentially conflicting values and assumptions about children , parents , the state and the rights and roles of different parties in the child care situation .
16 Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) .
17 ‘ it is , in my view , clear that the court , in considering whether a continuing situation of one or other of the kinds described in section 1(2) ( a ) exists , must do so at the point of time immediately before the process of protecting the child concerned is first put into motion .
18 In my judgment , the words ‘ is suffering ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 relate to the period immediately before the process of protecting the child concerned is first put into motion , just as in the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 .
19 Practices of keeping donor insemination secret from all others , and of keeping the child in ignorance of his/her means of conception which have traditionally been implicit in the provision of donor insemination are now in a state of flux .
20 Clearly , then , Professor Usher remains convinced that the baby had at least an 80% chance of survival , and that Leonard Arthur did prescribe the drug with the intention of causing the child 's death , especially in view of Dr Arthur 's comments on his philosophical attitude to this type of situation .
21 The situation is rather similar to that of pushing a child on a swing .
22 Thirdly , and most seriously , a teacher may be accused of abusing a child under his or her care at school .
23 In many cases , one or more of those parents are suspected of abusing the children , and in the case of organised abuse , also facilitating abuse by others .
24 Nor do the minutes provide evidence of any formal attempt to compare the cost of improving Village school building with the cost of transporting the children to Green Haven , though it is possible that such studies took place .
25 So Edwin Garland had almost certainly been incapable of fathering a child .
26 The leadership also continued to campaign for pedagogic changes , partially legitimizing both elements of its mission in terms of improving the child 's ‘ understanding ’ of mathematics . [ … ]
27 She would not , of course , have been surprised to hear her father making one of his many nocturnal pilgrimages , but he would have taken his stick , banged doors , bumped against furniture , turned on lights , even sung an old pop song from the sixties if he could have been sure of waking the children .
28 " Starter packs " should have the admirable function of motivating the children to seek elsewhere , including in encyclopedias , atlases , art books and ( for instance ) the poetry section , as well as the world outside .
29 Thameslink was formally inaugurated by HRH The Princess Royal on 25 April , when she combined its formal launch with that of Save the Children Week and travelled with a number of children on unit 319036 to Crystal Palace .
30 Afterwards Her Royal Highness , President of Save The Children Fund , visited the Save the Children Fund Shop , Paris Street , Exeter .
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