Example sentences of "be that [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike . |
| 2 | The argument would now tend to be that a child refusing to be toilet trained is not simply enjoying the experience for its own sake . |
| 3 | There is a lot to be learnt from standing back and observing the way a child plays with shape and form , but it may be that the child will want to talk about it afterwards , or ask for help to find particular shape materials as he works . |
| 4 | It may be that the child only recognises a particular picture in a particular book as an appropriate context for the word ‘ boat ’ ; or she may be able to recognise sailing boats but not canoes and motor boats . |
| 5 | This looks as if the intervention is effective but it may be that the child is just responding to rewards rather than learning new behaviour . |
| 6 | Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ? |
| 7 | Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ? |
| 8 | One possibility would be that the children lacked the ability to think about epistemic states , such as knowing , thinking and believing . |
| 9 | The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place . |
| 10 | The reality is that a child is a time-consuming , all-engulfing creature who disrupts any semblance of pleasurable home life . |
| 11 | ‘ The benefit now is that a child can institute proceedings without having to wait for somebody else to do it , ' said Mr Kidd . |
| 12 | What teachers have to learn is that a child who writes ows for house , and one who writes ekstra for extra , are making the same kind of error . |
| 13 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 14 | The second thing is that a child 's fear of failure is probably greater than you think . |
| 15 | The answer he gives is that the child freely enters the make-believe world secure in the signals from the real world that the real world is continuing to exist . |
| 16 | One advantage of a naming ceremony is that the child can be given ‘ godparents ’ to turn to for support . |
| 17 | Often the result is that the child , and subsequently the adult , in order to avoid punishment , will suppress feelings which might in fact be quite normal and natural , and indeed necessary to the human condition . |
| 18 | The only significance is that the child is given the name Jesus , which means ‘ God is salvation ’ . |
| 19 | A second possibility is that the child is able to employ a set of relatively sophisticated strategies for analysing adult speech . |
| 20 | Since the assumption is that the child will carry around any new linguistic knowledge , there will be no need to take any account of the environment within which the teaching takes place . |
| 21 | The problem is that the child throws toys every time he asks for a biscuit and is refused . |
| 22 | The current problem is that the child takes all his clothes off when with his father in the supermarket . |
| 23 | ‘ What is particularly reprehensible is that the child sought counselling when he came to you about signs of puberty . |
| 24 | ( Another implication of this way of looking at the origin of moral talk is that the child will learn her primary duties in familial contacts with her parents , close friends , relations , and the family pets . |
| 25 | The other pattern is that the child has psychiatric or psychological problems or is dependent on drugs or alcohol . |
| 26 | What has happened , as it so often does , is that the child knows come , has adding ing , and has not recognised , or does not know , that the e should disappear . |
| 27 | What is implied by the notion of the super-ego is that the child may react less to the actual external forms of its parents , and more to its own projection of them , interiorized as its moral order . |
| 28 | The reason is that the child usually sits on the floor to put her shoes on and her knees point outwards . |
| 29 | The result is that the children learn how to control dogs and the dogs learn that obeying children is simply part of life . |
| 30 | One is that the children who are caught have to go again until they manage to sit down before being touched . |