Example sentences of "a child ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red walls of baked earth , crenellated like a child 's fort ; neat , red courtyards ; a red street with a line of palm trees down the centre . |
| 2 | Child welfare legislation therefore potentially addresses all aspects of a child 's development not covered by school legislation . |
| 3 | Reading for pleasure is an essential part of a child 's development of language skills . |
| 4 | This process involves the combination of love and discipline in a secure and balanced family environment where both parents are present to contribute to a child 's development into maturity . |
| 5 | In the early stages of a child 's development the visual problem can be masked . |
| 6 | Part of a child 's development is the evolution of a concept called by psychologists the ‘ self . |
| 7 | A child 's development always takes place within a context of contemporaneous events , the most important of which result from the parents ' activities . |
| 8 | In the first phase , from the early 1960's to the early 1970's , attitudes towards the role of linguistic factors in a child 's development were deeply influenced by the ideas of Basil Bernstein and his circle . |
| 9 | From these memories he developed a theory that there were three main stages in a child 's development . |
| 10 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 11 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 12 | The Guyanese girl struck with a hard , angry scrape and in the flare he saw that there was a child 's head on a bolster at the end of the small hump . |
| 13 | He saw a child 's head peer round the wing of the comfortable chair , the child from last night . |
| 14 | In the first stages of a child 's head injury , staff here give vital support to the family . |
| 15 | A child 's skin heals fast — an aged skin takes much longer . |
| 16 | A child 's skin is much thinner than an adult 's and so more prone to burning . |
| 17 | No one would bother to look in a child 's hiding place . |
| 18 | The Trustee Act 1925 , ss31-32 , should be extended ( see Williams on Wills 6th edn , Butterworths , 1987 , vol 2 , p1267 and 1275 ) if monies are to be retained until such child or children come of age , so that the trustees have flexibility in their use of both income and capital of a child 's share of the trust fund , as should the power of investment so that it is not limited by the Trustee Investments Act 1961. ( v ) Insurance — Section 19(1) of the Trustee Act 1925 limits a trustee 's power to insure to insurance against fire to three-quarters of the value of the property ; as the trustees will probably not have any cash , the occupier wife should be made responsible for insurance . |
| 19 | This information is important if a child 's test score is to be compared with information from the standardisation sample in order to make judgements about relative severity of a linguistic problem or language delay . |
| 20 | Jackson herself saw the danger in 1976 : ‘ Unless you can accept a child 's colour , you will always be rejecting a very important part of him ’ ( p. 4 ) . |
| 21 | Under the Children Act 1989 a child 's lack of suitable education had ceased to be a specific ground for taking him/her into care . |
| 22 | I was never asked to discuss the final Report with her or with Mr Baker , so I can not be sure about her reasons , but from her radio and television appearances it seemed she found repugnant our insistence that a child 's dialect is not inaccurate in its use of grammar and should be respected . |
| 23 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 24 | How then to conceptualise works such as Polly Binns ' minimalist and rather beautiful series ‘ Overstrand to Side Strand ’ ( 1992 ) , white linen squares , slit , painted and stitched ; Beverley Clark 's untitled construction with its large wood-stained pieces of canvas threaded onto nylon , like the beads of a child 's necklace ; or Sally Freshwater 's snaking folds of linen held taut with rods , expanding across one wall of the Crafts Council gallery . |
| 25 | A child 's piping question about the next ‘ act ’ — a professional juggler currently on the variety bill in a nearby town — was hurriedly hushed , as much by the Colonel 's glare as its mother 's whisper . |
| 26 | It tasted of candied peel and nuts , and she was reaching for another one when she saw that Lucenzo 's head had lifted at the sound of a child 's piping tones . |
| 27 | ’ Killer Bombs ’ The sirns waled , The sirne ecoed through the streets as the planes ( zoomed ) across the sky Droaned there was a quick burst of ack Ack fire Then a whistling of Bombs all around Suddenly here was silence Then a rumble , Then a boom getting louder like a volcano The sky filled smoke and flames Black Bright orange leeping through the air across the sky in the middle of the noise a child 's crying Then the shouting of people trapped in the rubble House in flames all around The loud ringing of fire engines rushing to the fire More and more voices ( shouting ) for help screaming Body lieing all around . |
| 28 | Trace lines on it , with icing sugar to represent bricks , and on each of the bricks write a child 's name . |
| 29 | Add a name songs This was an idea I had to personalize songs by adding in a child 's name . |
| 30 | The formal duties of the conference are to decide whether or not to place a child 's name on the Child Protection Register and , if so , to appoint a ‘ key worker ’ who then assumes the main responsibility for overall coordination of any subsequent work with the child and the family . |