Example sentences of "[noun] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Alphaville a child is unlikely to see its father . |
| 2 | by anybody form so , here we have each year , six examples of the child 's writing and thought processes and opinions at least , well I , I said six because I ca do n't really know how many subjects a child will be taking or writing for |
| 3 | Beside her stands a child , who nurses a pet bird on her lap . |
| 4 | From about 18 months a child will watch and show interest in naughtiness by their siblings ( Dunn and Munn 1985 ) . |
| 5 | Not every piece of work a child undertakes needs to proceed through successive stages of drafting . |
| 6 | Morathi bears Aenarion a child , Malekith , the future Witch King of Naggaroth . |
| 7 | The House of Lords decisively rejected Mrs. Gillick 's contentions and held that at common law a child of sufficient intelligence and understanding ( the ‘ Gillick competent ’ child ) could consent to treatment , notwithstanding the absence of the parents ' consent and even an express prohibition by the parents . |
| 8 | However , the Court of Appeal decided in Burton v Islington Health Authority [ 1992 ] 3 WLR 617 that at common law a child en ventre sa mρere and unborn at the time of the defendant 's negligence has a cause of action for injuries caused by that negligence . |
| 9 | Moreover , all pupils were to be subject to annual tests in reading , writing and arithmetic , administered by HMI , and 2s. 8d. ( approximately 14p ) was to be deducted from the grant for each test a child failed . |
| 10 | Without a safety seat , in a crash a child would have little chance of survival . |
| 11 | Under this Act a child born alive , but suffering from a physical or mental defect as a result of something which happened before its birth , has a right of action for damages if the defendant would also have been liable in tort for what occurred to the parent if sued in time . |
| 12 | Looking at his reflection a child sees that he has two eyes and one nose , that his mouth is lower than his nose , his ears are at each side of his head . |
| 13 | One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak . |
| 14 | Her voice was soft and low ; her complexion a child 's . |
| 15 | The questions to be asked in relation to adoptive parents are : first , whether they can successfully parent a child and develop deep attachments to it without a feeling of ‘ entitlement ’ or of being in charge and whilst there are continued visits or contacts by birth parents or birth relatives . |
| 16 | At that moment a child 's bone snapped . |
| 17 | From the moment a child can crawl , everything at a baby 's level , therefore , must be safe — sockets , wastepaper bins , radiators . |
| 18 | To win a special place a child had to demonstrate ‘ ability to profit ’ from secondary education . |
| 19 | The Safety Centre features full size mock-ups of nearly every danger a child could face including house fires and high speed trains . |
| 20 | It 's like the sound a child makes when it confronts its own … |
| 21 | At one point a child calls out in the background . |
| 22 | Maybe this aircraft intrigues a child because , like a cartoon , it seems to have a face . |
| 23 | For a family with several school-age children , even the minimum as outlined by the Ministry of Public Education in 1986 ( notebooks , pencils and crayons ) would cost about 200 colones a child . |
| 24 | From nine months to four years a child can use a seat in the back that faces forwards and which can be secured by rear seat belts or their anchorage points . |
| 25 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 26 | It means a bit of cheating , will give you some idea of how they , at level one , on a picture a child , you 'd expect a child to pick out two things about buildings . |
| 27 | The first appearance a child would make after being charged would be before a youth court , formerly called a juvenile court . |
| 28 | In one case a child was removed from her mother after a fracture at the age of 18 months . |
| 29 | In this case a child 's shortest distance to school along public thoroughfares was just less than 3 miles . |
| 30 | At the Republican Convention last month George Bush expressed his concern about the whole question of liability in the US , and particularly about the amount of money trial lawyers make from suits that lead to doctors refusing to practise certain areas of medicine , and even to parents refusing to umpire childrens ' baseball games in case a child is injured and they are sued . |