Example sentences of "[subord] an adult " in BNC.
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| 1 | In families where there is a predisposition to violence , especially where an adult was abused as a child by the parent , the concept of elder abuse offers a further example of the violence extended in that family towards the least powerful members . |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 3 | The head need n't take the role of guide , a child can often do the job far better than an adult . |
| 4 | But the point is that the mind of a child is often capable of a greater grasp of the complexity of a theological problem than an adult . |
| 5 | The body of a young child works at the maximum rate , enabling the child to process far more information in a given time than an adult could . |
| 6 | A child 's skin is much thinner than an adult 's and so more prone to burning . |
| 7 | His instincts told him that a child was more likely to keep something dark than an adult — a child has no tiresome misgivings about deceiving even his loved ones — but he was not sure that he dare trust his instincts . |
| 8 | spread of disease and sibling competition , while it must be remembered that a site suited to germination of a particular tree species is no longer suited once an adult is in that place . |
| 9 | In my long experience of this species , I have noticed that as long as you have only a few juveniles over 1″ , these seem to stop growing at around 1.25″ , until an adult dies , whereupon a young fish will fill the gap and grow on to adult size at a remarkable rate . |
| 10 | In the same way , if an adult slips and is going to fall , his hands go out to stop himself hitting his face . |
| 11 | Glanville Williams recently wrote : ‘ Some doctors seem to fail to realise that if an adult patient has positively forbidden particular treatment , they act illegally if they administer it , and could be … prosecuted for assault . ’ |
| 12 | But behaviours are only consistently followed by predictable outcomes under certain conditions — for example , the child 's request for a drink is followed by a drink only if an adult hears the child 's request . |
| 13 | For example , if an adult asks of a two-year-old 's toy bear , Is that your toy ? , a typical response is No , it 's a bear . |
| 14 | And if an adult , speaking to a child — or to anyone — were to introduce the quoted words of a third person ( 'dialogue at second hand' ) it would be very unusual for the source not to be identified . |
| 15 | If an adult patient did not have the capacity to decide at the time of the purported refusal and still does not have that capacity , it is the duty of the doctors to treat him in whatever way they consider , in the exercise of their clinical judgment , to be in his best interests . |
| 16 | Or if an adult hospital patient with young children is known to be terminally ill , it should be possible to provide some kind of support for the spouse and the children in preparation for their loss , in order that they may work through their grief and come to terms with their new situation . |
| 17 | But if an adult walked up to me and said come and have a cup of coffee my reaction would be I do n't know you . |
| 18 | Whereas an adult can fairly ‘ comfortably ’ lose a pint of blood , a child losing the same amount may be drained of as much as a third or even half of her total supply . |
| 19 | The child who is abused or belittled will often , when an adult , seek out others who will treat him in the same way as this fits in with his inner image of himself . |
| 20 | Many children are quite happy to run , push , pull , ride and climb , but when an adult is standing by , ready to help , she is sure to be drawn in by the children as in the following example . |
| 21 | Many parents use avoidance strategies either by alternating the environment in some way , for example removing ornaments from low shelving , or by setting rules like banning felt tips except when an adult is supervising . |
| 22 | When an adult insect emerges the veins contain blood which has been observed to circulate through them , and even in the fully formed wings the circulation is often still maintained ( Yeager and Hendrickson , 1934 ; Clare and Tauber , 1940 ) . |
| 23 | The pathological connotations of the term paranoid-schizoid are more appropriate to the reappearance of certain of these strategies later in life , when they become overextended from their normal place , and therefore develop as aspects of rupture , as when an adult attempts to gain power and control over another person as a substitute for the development of self-discipline . |
| 24 | For example , when an adult asks them to decide whether two amounts are ‘ the same ’ , they may interpret this as meaning ‘ look the same ’ . |
| 25 | To modify the standard where D is very young ( Camplin was 15 ) is understandable : it is not fair to expect a youth to show the same level of self-restraint as an adult . |
| 26 | It may mean that the mentally handicapped adult will not be able to engage in as productive a job as an adult with a higher level of intelligence . |
| 27 | The whole organism can then have , as an adult , the same powers in its asexual buds and its sexual organs , because the same material is there : namely , ‘ gemmules ’ collected from all over the body . |
| 28 | On the substantive application W. , who had attained the age of 16 , exercised her right to separate representation and resisted the application on the ground that section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969conferred on her the same right as an adult to refuse medical treatment so that the court could not override her decision . |
| 29 | If it is a possible view that section 8 is intended to put a 16- or 17-year-old in exactly the same position as an adult and there is thus some ambiguity , although I do not think that there is , it is a permissible aid to construction to seek to ascertain the mischief at which the section is directed . |
| 30 | I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that the effect of section 8 is to make it clear that a child of 16 or 17 years of age has the same capacity as an adult to consent to surgical medical or dental treatment which would otherwise constitute a trespass . |