Example sentences of "a child [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have to pee , ’ said Lucy , all at once a child to be coaxed into the treat she wants . |
| 2 | There is no explicit mention of a child to be born to him and Sarah , and there will be none for another three chapters ( not until 15.4 ) . |
| 3 | Although the European Court of Human Rights had declared that it would be a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights for a child to be given corporal punishment against the philosophical or religious convictions of his/her parent , it was felt that the ruling did not revoke the teacher 's independent authority to administer punishment . |
| 4 | ‘ It can never be satisfactory for a child to be educated in a school in which the standard of work is above his powers , or the curriculum not suited to his particular aptitudes . ’ |
| 5 | to waiting like a child to be kissed . |
| 6 | If learning to read is regarded as a continual process of making more and more sense of written language , advancing with every reading experience and beginning with the first insight that print is meaningful , then it will be seen that there can never be anything specific for a child to be ready for … . |
| 7 | However , the practice is condemned in a recent announcement made by the Vatican on Respect for Human Life in its Origins and on the Dignity of Procreation , which permits a child to be conceived only as a result of intercourse within marriage . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's common for a child to be academically gifted but be on a normal level socially and emotionally , ’ says Mr Short . |
| 9 | Such an order permits a child to be held in secure accommodation for up to three months at a first hearing , and six months on renewal . |
| 10 | While some workers believe that the best place for a child is within a family , and that it is better for a child to be placed transracially than to have no family , anxiety is increasing about the outcome of transracial placements . |
| 11 | This is act seventeen , nineteen sixty three which basically requires that parents , one or both , of a child to be baptised be or be prepared to become full communicant members of the church . |
| 12 | A child to be cajoled , lied to , patted . |
| 13 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 14 | Neither can it make a specific issue or prohibited steps order so as to require a child to be accommodated by a local authority as this would in effect allow the authority to take the child into care without necessarily satisfying the s31 criteria ( s9(5) ( b ) ) . |