Example sentences of "child can only " in BNC.

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1 A child can only learn at his or her own speed from the starting point which has been reached .
2 … faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects , the child can only identify himself as owner , as user , never as creator ; he does not invent the world , he uses it : there are , prepared for him , actions without adventures , without wonder , without joy ( Barthes , 1973 , p. 54 ) .
3 Morality is still uppermost , but it is a social morality with which parents and teachers are concerned , not the repression of old Adam , the suppression of evil , or the breaking of the will , and , in consequence , the view that a proper submissiveness in the child can only be achieved by harsh discipline weakens , at least for a time .
4 A child can only be placed under the supervision of a probation officer if the local authority request this and there is already a probation officer working with another member of the household ( Sched 3 , para 9(2) ) .
5 At the same time , influential psychodynamic doctrine held that children can only relate to one set of parent figures and that psychological ties are more important than biological ones .
6 On non-school days children should not work any more than five hours if they are under 15 and on Sundays children can only work two hours .
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