Example sentences of "[to-vb] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 2 | ‘ Even though it was the rise of Nazism that eventually prompted me to write A Child of Our , the scapegoats of the North of England and especially the effect on the children remained very much in my mind . ’ |
| 3 | The same medical model taught that both male and female had to produce the fluids necessary to conceive a child , and it seemed obvious that this occurred , in both sexes , with orgasm . |
| 4 | To conceive a child deliberately in order to kill it to make use of its tissue , the idea is absolutely repugnant . ’ |
| 5 | Mary was to conceive a child without the usual help of the male . |
| 6 | She was not only married but trying to conceive a child by Stephen — though as yet she had n't sat down with him and discussed her worries about her failure to become pregnant . |
| 7 | The obligation upon LEAs to meet a child 's special educational needs as set out in his/her statement of needs has led to an increase in specialist staff , visiting , or based in these centres and working with and supporting regular staff . |
| 8 | The procedure of egg donation , or of proembryo donation , could help some women to bear a child even though they are unable to produce their own eggs , or are bearers of a genetically transmissible disease . |
| 9 | This could be a way out for a couple unable to have children because of the wife 's inability to bear a child . |
| 10 | You know what it 's like to bear a child and bring him up and see him leave you and go to the other side of the world , knowing you 'll not see him again ? |
| 11 | Week 4 The prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled in Mary who is to bear a child of the house of David . |
| 12 | You have no idea what it is like to have to bear a child . |
| 13 | The question of the absolute right of a woman to bear a child needs offsetting by the right of a child to a balanced upbringing . |
| 14 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 15 | Think of all those women who long to bear a child and are unable . ’ |
| 16 | Almost as if her body did not find it natural to bear a child . |
| 17 | Parents , relatives and foster parents may seek a residence order under s8 in order to secure a child 's release from care . |
| 18 | An elicitation procedure is designed to provide a child with the opportunity to respond to a specific set of stimuli ; the relationship between a stimulus and the child 's response is then taken as an indication of the child 's mastery of a particular aspect of language . |
| 19 | Since the aim of adoption must always be to provide a child without parents with an environment which will foster normal development , the commitment must be to the child , not to the parents or to the agency . |
| 20 | It would appear , from more recent studies , that food additives are important in a great many children with hyperkinetic syndrome , but that it is unusual to find a child for whom additives are the sole problem . |
| 21 | The educational psychologist may be invited to observe a child it playgroup should this be deemed useful hut will not , as a rule , carry out a formal assessment during playgroup time which would thus single the child out from his/her peers and probably deprive the other children of their leader 's care . |
| 22 | Am I the sort of man to set a child spying ? |
| 23 | Once the feeding routine had been established , the baby and her brother were returned home at nights , since Mr MacDonagh , who worked with Eleanor 's father as a building worker , had threatened to leave home if his wife got up once more in the middle of the night to feed a child which was n't their own . |
| 24 | Then , as section 2 of the 1980 Act , they have the duty , originally spelt out in section 1 of the 1948 Act , to receive a child into care where it appears that a child under 17 ‘ has neither parent nor guardian or is lost or that his parents or guardian are , for the time being or permanently , prevented by reason of mental or bodily disease or infirmity or other incapacity or any other circumstances from providing for his proper accommodation , maintenance and upbringing ; and in either case , that the intervention of the local authority under this section is necessary in the interests of the welfare of the child ’ . |
| 25 | ( d ) Duty to consult child Local authorities have a duty to consult a child before providing accommodation under s20 . |
| 26 | It 's a terrible thing — to destroy a child 's innocence . ’ |
| 27 | Women who have valued the sex act just because of its potential to create a child may find that it no longer gives them pleasure . |
| 28 | The cash all in coins is to go towards the £14,000 appeal to create a child protection suite in Darlington , where child abuse victims and women sex assault victims can be dealt with in a pleasant atmosphere . |
| 29 | Perhaps the best way to convey this attitude is to remember a child 's definition of a net as a lot of holes tied together with string . |
| 30 | The aim must be , in Eric Midwinter 's words , ‘ to familiarize a child with his environment , in all its moods and manners ’ . |