Example sentences of "child towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is these everyday experiences which help the child towards understanding . |
| 2 | Taking one of a pair of identical towers and re-building in another form , e.g. helps the child towards the idea of invariance of number — there are the same number of blocks ‘ before ’ and ‘ after ’ although they look different . |
| 3 | Prudential Assurance , for example , pays a tax-free allowance of £77 per child towards the cost of replacing school uniforms . |
| 4 | The crowd of women and the big man had gone out into the street , but the thin man remained ; and he looked from the child towards the closed door before he , too , turned and went out . |
| 5 | Freud uses these two specific examples to suggest that psychoanalysis has shown that , in these cases , the animals or birds are being treated as substitutes for a parent , and the ambivalent feelings towards the animal reflect the feelings of the child towards the father — love and fear . |
| 6 | The fact that a baby is weaned early , according to this argument , matters less than the reason for this decision : whether it reflects a cultural norm , or stems from the mother 's revulsion at physical intimacy , or expresses an urge to hurry the child towards independence . |
| 7 | Certain experiences can predispose a child towards feelings of helplessness , towards a propensity to interpret information in a negative way , and towards a continuing perception of irretrievable loss . |
| 8 | Did he ever use any violence on the child towards the child ? |