Example sentences of "child [unc] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A parent may interpose in or dominate his or her child 's marriage to satisfy personal need regardless of the child 's feelings . |
| 2 | Mac and mec ( make ) from one child 's work need particular attention . |
| 3 | Before them , at the edge of the cliff , crumbling against the skyline like a child 's sandcastle rendered amorphous by the advancing tide , was the ruined Benedictine abbey . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most significant achievement of the sensori-motor stage is the child 's ability to let one aspect of experience stand for , or represent , another . |
| 6 | The second requires the child to make a verbal response to either a verbal or a non-verbal stimulus and is used as a measure of the child 's ability to produce spoken language . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And then the child 's voice came loud and clear : |
| 9 | The editor of the monthly The Child 's Companion concluded one of her homilies , entitled ‘ Do Not Mock ’ , with these minatory words : |
| 10 | Inevitably , the very fact that someone has decided to try to record the child 's language makes this ideal unattainable . |
| 11 | While some described it as an important strengthening of the rights of children , others saw it as a willingness to overturn natural family links in order to pander to a child 's desire to acquire richer parents . |
| 12 | By contrast a child 's bedroom seems safe . |
| 13 | In some families , the question of the child 's health becomes entangled with other problems — a tense relationship between husband and wife , for example , or friction with grandparents or other relatives . |
| 14 | ‘ Remember , the new Children 's Act gives them rights too and a court will usually consider that it is in the child 's interest to know both parents where possible and reasonable . ’ |
| 15 | The charge for preparing a Change Of Name Deed can range from £25 to £75 and it is legal for the child 's mother to do this . |
| 16 | The child 's face turns blank , or closes . |
| 17 | The latter 's vicious slap on the child 's face explains more than any other gesture Natalia 's selfishness . |
| 18 | The child 's mind demands strong lines and colours in the picture presented to it , while its moral sense is not satisfied short of the extremest sentence of the law . ’ |
| 19 | In the meantime , Carol hopes it wo n't take another child 's death to convince other local authorities of the need to start running similar courses of their own . |
| 20 | Success of child 's bid to obtain legal separation from mother |