Example sentences of "child 's [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is another potential drawback ; it has to do with the fluent child 's love of ( or abuse of ) debate . |
| 2 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 3 | the child 's history of toilet training both during the day and at night to determine whether it is primary or secondary in origin and its continuity |
| 4 | Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) show that much of a child 's experience of language in the classroom , in terms of teacher-pupil exchanges , is marked by a pattern of Initiation — Response — Feedback . |
| 5 | I thought that Basil appreciated more than most the essential magic of the child 's experience of the world and the expression of this in art — not that he ever said this , but his own manner as a teacher always implied that this was a special , essentially elevated kind of activity — but one in which everyone had the capacity to join . |
| 6 | Researchers at the Dartington Social Research Unit have developed materials designed to help SSDs meet those responsibilities and help make a child 's experience of care happy and fulfilling . |
| 7 | This repair entails the reconstruction of the child 's experience of schooling . |
| 8 | Paper states that such facilities , can make a child 's experience of writing more like that of a real writer " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Miss Honey marvelled at the child 's lack of conceit and self-consciousness . |
| 11 | A DoH source describes cases where a decision is taken not to record an interview because the child 's lack of English , learning difficulty , or age mean workers believe the evidence may not stand up under cross examination . |
| 12 | ‘ The child 's choice of various items offered is supposed to indicate his future career , ’ Susan added , filling out Roman 's short , cool explanation . |
| 13 | Too little attention has been given to pragmatic factors , many of which Donaldson drew to our attention with notions such as human sense as well as her analysis of the contextual factors which operate to hinder the child 's grasp of intended meanings . |
| 14 | Graham Davis , professor of psychology at Leicester University , said : ‘ To determine a child 's grasp of events they would probably undergo a straightforward IQ assessment . |
| 15 | What will be the effect on the child if there is no further discussion at all in that child 's life of " heaven " ? |
| 16 | Lawyers may find it helpful to employ communication techniques more commonly used by other child care professionals to ascertain a child 's degree of understanding . |
| 17 | Where the disclosure is made in confidence by a child victim to his solicitor , the solicitor 's entitlement to breach his duty of confidentiality depends on the child 's degree of maturity . |
| 18 | Psychoanalysis , through its work with neurotics in modern society , has found that the Oedipal conflicts are of the most profound importance for later life , and the child 's handling of these earliest sexual feelings and actions towards both parents has lasting significance on later relationships . |
| 19 | Other profoundly moving gestures are to be found in MacMillan 's The Invitation and particularly in his Requiem when he evokes a child 's wonder of life in the solo , Pie Jesu ( see page 136 ) . |
| 20 | Piaget 's The Child 's Construction of Reality ( 1955 ) is probably the best source of the constructivist thesis . |
| 21 | On the one hand , there is the position expounded by Chomsky ( 1965,1976 ) , Lenneberg ( 1967 ) and McNeil ( 1966 ) , which emphasizes the autonomous nature of the child 's construction of language . |
| 22 | As far as the autonomy of the learner is concerned , this is attested by the child 's construction of " incorrect " transitional rules , in spite of the lack of supporting evidence in the input : for example , the early preference for fixed word order in languages where this is variable ( Slobin , 1982 ) ; the well-known phenomenon of over-regularisation of irregular forms ( e.g. " goed " , " sheeps " ) ; and the systematic " errors " that Bowerman ( 1972 ) has observed in much older children . |
| 23 | At this stage , what began as an expression of pure assimilation , in which anything could provide the basis for the child 's construction of images , turns increasingly into games with a much stronger accommodative element , as a genuine resemblance is required between the signifier and the signified , and the actual characteristics of the village or wedding observed must be taken into account . |
| 24 | This applies , presumably , to the case where one misfortune sets in train a whole sequence of further misfortunes , each confirming the child 's expectation of what life has to offer him and each giving him further reason to adopt whatever behaviour — flight from reality , antisocial tendencies , and so forth — he used as a way of dealing with the original situation . |
| 25 | In view of our recent finding that basal UOS pressure is influenced by the child 's state of arousal , this was assessed throughout the monitoring period and noted as : A — resting with eyes shut , B — resting with eyes open , C — moving , comfortable , D — moving , uncomfortable , and E — crying . |
| 26 | Crucially , the child 's interpretation of these factors might be quite different from that intended by the adult . |
| 27 | ( iv ) Infants — If a child ( or children ) of husband and wife is to be a beneficiary at the end of the trust and is likely to be an infant at that time , the trustees should perhaps be given power to pay the child 's share of the proceeds to the parent or guardian . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The term acquisition is more frequently associated with the child 's mastery of higher-order understanding which can not easily be reduced to the additive effect of different learning experiences . |
| 30 | The rest of this chapter and the following chapter provide a more detailed account of the processes which are involved in a child 's mastery of language from the perspective of learning theory , the acquisition of abstract rules and developmental change . |