Example sentences of "child [unc] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are all features of a child 's life that they need . |
| 2 | That crucial time in a child 's life when he has the ability to understand that his parents and teachers are trying to prepare him for his adult life , will not necessarily be related to his age . |
| 3 | The wish is based upon the child 's knowledge that he has a rival . |
| 4 | Later , he comments on this , as follows : ‘ In treating of the development of the notion of thought , we may regard as primitive the child 's conviction that it thinks with the mouth . |
| 5 | The goal of collecting naturalistic language data is , by definition , to capture a sample of the child 's language as it occurs under ordinary , everyday conditions . |
| 6 | My chest ached with a child 's fear while I cringed in the deeply recessed doorway of North Three . |
| 7 | Also the mothers are reluctant to reduce the amount of milk in the child 's diet because they know that this is the only form of nutrition that the child accepts . |
| 8 | Stadtverkehr im Wandel meaning Town traffic in change began by stressing the role of streets in a child 's growth as it learned ‘ to be at home in the town ’ . |
| 9 | She handed him the woebegone bouquet , the bird 's head dangling , its coxcomb a broken-stemmed blossom ; he took it , bowed his head , and pinched the child 's cheek as he showed his teeth gritted in greedy affection , the expression that says to children , ‘ Aahah ! |
| 10 | Many beautiful animal portraits have been submitted over the months of the competition , but it usually takes that special ‘ something ’ to create the magic of a prize-winning photograph — perhaps a bird captured in mid-flight , or the moment of sheer wonder on a child 's face as it encounters one of the several animal species now allowed to roam freely in the zoo grounds . |
| 11 | He remembered the child 's face when he 'd tried to explain to her about devils . |
| 12 | Mr Lang is also expected to turn his criticism on parents who neglect their children 's education and who fail to teach right from wrong and respect for others . |
| 13 | As things turned out , Benjamin just lived beyond the Victorian era and into the Edwardian : on Sunday 3 September 1905 he was in church about to play the organ for a children 's service when he collapsed . |
| 14 | Now , well you ca n't have one , you ca n't have a children 's day cos you do n't do anything |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not the slightest bit interested in you — or what you wear ! ’ she hissed at him beneath the sound of the children 's laughter as they jumped off the bed , and scampered about the room . |
| 16 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 17 | Beth feared for the children 's sight as she lurched forward to grab the branch . |
| 18 | The children 's plan when you come to it , very clearly shows a very sensible wish to move from expensive specialist placements , and expensive residential community home placements to more fostering , more teen care , more work with families in the community . |
| 19 | I was talking , yesterday as it happened , to the chairman of another very large children 's charity and I asked him how his , the spend , the annual spend of that charity was distributed between the work of the charity , the purpose of the charity and the support functions and he said about eighty twenty . |
| 20 | Publicans would have to apply for a special children 's certificate as they have to do in Scotland . |
| 21 | Formal consent must also be sought from the Reporter to the Children 's Panel if we propose to share certain information provided by the Reporter . |
| 22 | ‘ Did you hear any sound from the children 's room when you came past the door ? ’ |
| 23 | I Children 's World and I got I got books . |
| 24 | Chris Williams and Alan Warren from our advertising department raised £350 for the Great Ormond Street children 's hospital when they took part in the Round London marathon in March 1990 . |
| 25 | A highlight was a party in the children 's hospital where we gave presents to all of the children , mums and staff as well as handing over medical supplies and a lap-top computer . |
| 26 | ‘ It may well be that the factors which influenced the sheriff are strongly mitigating and should be given proper consideration by the children 's hearing when they come to consider the future arrangements for L on the footing that the grounds of referral are now held to be established . ’ |
| 27 | Parents may understandably often try to deny the reality of their black children 's unhappiness because they like to think that their children are secure and happy , thus reflecting their success as adopters . |
| 28 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 29 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |