Example sentences of "child ['s] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First comes the young child 's attachment to parents — a growing bond of affection , respect and loyalty . |
| 2 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 3 | the child 's history of toilet training both during the day and at night to determine whether it is primary or secondary in origin and its continuity |
| 4 | This repair entails the reconstruction of the child 's experience of schooling . |
| 5 | Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) show that much of a child 's experience of language in the classroom , in terms of teacher-pupil exchanges , is marked by a pattern of Initiation — Response — Feedback . |
| 6 | Researchers at the Dartington Social Research Unit have developed materials designed to help SSDs meet those responsibilities and help make a child 's experience of care happy and fulfilling . |
| 7 | Any party , including the child , may be excluded from a directions hearing if they are legally represented and their absence is desirable in the child 's interests in view of the matters to be discussed ( FPCR , r16(2) ; FPR , r4.16(2) ) . |
| 8 | The Chinese lunch they 'd had the secretary phone out for lay on the coffee table like a child 's experiments with putty and paint and designer ooze . |
| 9 | Teaching without preaching , expanding a child 's horizons without risk , often replacing a parent rather than working with one , is a minefield of responsibility . |
| 10 | A DoH source describes cases where a decision is taken not to record an interview because the child 's lack of English , learning difficulty , or age mean workers believe the evidence may not stand up under cross examination . |
| 11 | Miss Honey marvelled at the child 's lack of conceit and self-consciousness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | LIFE is obviously just child 's play for husband and wife TV presenters John Stapleton and Lynn Faulds Wood . |
| 15 | MAKING toys is child 's play for Courtaulds employee Ted Richards — and he ensures a perfect finish by using paint from International . |
| 16 | The dinner will be child 's play by comparison . ’ |
| 17 | In the case of R v Hopley ( 1860 ) , for example , Chief Justice Cockburn said that punishment inflicted on a pupil must be reasonable and moderate , not motivated by passion or rage , and must not be ‘ excessive in its nature or degree ’ or ‘ protracted beyond the child 's powers of endurance ’ . |
| 18 | Well , we have measured the child 's responses from birth . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Outcomes for the children and young people were analysed according to the legal route which was taken as the basis for the child 's admission into care . |
| 21 | ‘ But it is my wife and child 's lives at stake ! ’ |
| 22 | A system that does not take these factors into account puts the child 's life at risk : it is the system and not the mother that is at fault . |
| 23 | Where the disclosure is made in confidence by a child victim to his solicitor , the solicitor 's entitlement to breach his duty of confidentiality depends on the child 's degree of maturity . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Other profoundly moving gestures are to be found in MacMillan 's The Invitation and particularly in his Requiem when he evokes a child 's wonder of life in the solo , Pie Jesu ( see page 136 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Piaget 's The Child 's Construction of Reality ( 1955 ) is probably the best source of the constructivist thesis . |
| 28 | On the one hand , there is the position expounded by Chomsky ( 1965,1976 ) , Lenneberg ( 1967 ) and McNeil ( 1966 ) , which emphasizes the autonomous nature of the child 's construction of language . |
| 29 | At this stage , what began as an expression of pure assimilation , in which anything could provide the basis for the child 's construction of images , turns increasingly into games with a much stronger accommodative element , as a genuine resemblance is required between the signifier and the signified , and the actual characteristics of the village or wedding observed must be taken into account . |
| 30 | In view of our recent finding that basal UOS pressure is influenced by the child 's state of arousal , this was assessed throughout the monitoring period and noted as : A — resting with eyes shut , B — resting with eyes open , C — moving , comfortable , D — moving , uncomfortable , and E — crying . |