Example sentences of "child ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But flower seeds in pretty packets are often displayed in shops alongside sweets , and within a child 's reach . |
| 2 | Try not to leave teapots or cups of drink within a child 's reach — 50,000 children a year are taken to hospital with burns and scalds , the majority from spilling cups , mugs and kettles . |
| 3 | The occasional smack meted out in a happy , secure home is not going to scar a child 's psyche . |
| 4 | The child 's corpse must have been loaded onto some form of transport that had been waiting beyond the yard . |
| 5 | To my knowledge there has been no research that has set out to study from the start how far a child 's attachment to a new family or carer is impeded or not or whether ‘ the child 's personality will be damaged ’ where a birth parent or relative keeps contact whilst the child is with psychological parents . |
| 6 | First comes the young child 's attachment to parents — a growing bond of affection , respect and loyalty . |
| 7 | To take one example : it has frequently been said that a child 's attachment to his mother develops out of his physical dependence on her . |
| 8 | The fact of the child 's puzzlement is due to his being a victim of the way in which the dogmatic religions of the world have been used for child indoctrination , resulting in the perpetuation of the inherent superstitions and subsequent evils that have shamed religion throughout civilised time . |
| 9 | I 'm sure that one of those days the dog 's jealousy and the child 's charisma , or the combination of both , will lead to grief . |
| 10 | Guideline 7 : Show your affection and foster your child 's love and respect . |
| 11 | There is another potential drawback ; it has to do with the fluent child 's love of ( or abuse of ) debate . |
| 12 | It is obviously an emotional occasion for parents and it is important that they recognize , right from the start , that another person now comes first in their child 's love and loyalty . |
| 13 | They have reported for example that fear of strangers may peak anywhere between 6 and 12 months ; that it varies in onset and intensity according to the child 's sex , its rank in the family , the number of people it meets regularly , its attachment to its mother and her responsiveness , and the age , size and sex of the stranger ; that it is different in the laboratory from at home . |
| 14 | Selecting controls from delivery registers also enabled matching for mother 's age ( plus or minus five years ) , child 's sex and date of birth ( plus or minus six months ) , district health authority of birth , and residence in the study area at the time of diagnosis . |
| 15 | This process continues until everyone has a name on his or her back , the organizer putting a name on the birthday child 's back , who will have started the game . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 19 | For in secondary schools , so often organised in this way , a child 's experience may not be as ‘ coherent ’ ‘ broad ’ and ‘ balanced ’ as the curriculum planners imagine . |
| 20 | It is particularly useful to look at overall patterns which emerge from a sequence of activities and ( maybe ) to discover obvious gaps in the child 's experience . |
| 21 | It is certainly not intended that intrusion of any kind should be encouraged into an area of the child 's experience which must be sensitively respected , and this must be kept in mind when reading the section ‘ My family ’ . |
| 22 | In some communities the extended family is the child 's experience , and although some examples involve primarily the ‘ nuclear ’ family , these will extend to include cousins , uncles , grandparents as appropriate . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yet these days and hours represent the whole of the child 's experience , on which dawning cognition and sentience must be based . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This repair entails the reconstruction of the child 's experience of schooling . |
| 28 | At an early stage it is formed in relation to the child 's experience , especially its relationships with other children in play . |
| 29 | It is an expression of the child 's experience at several levels , especially an awareness of a love of nature . |
| 30 | Paper states that such facilities , can make a child 's experience of writing more like that of a real writer " . |