Example sentences of "child [unc] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , any person with parental responsibility for the child must , on request , inform the supervisor of the child 's address if known ( para 8(2) ( a ) ) . |
| 2 | Parents like to see the headteacher 's initials on their child 's reading card , they appreciate that the head is taking a personal interest in their child 's progress and keeping a general eye on activities in classrooms . |
| 3 | Keeping an eye on the child 's play while talking to parents can provide a lot of basic information about the child 's developmental level ( Lowe 1975 ) . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) Included within the ‘ extraordinary ’ or ‘ special ’ category might be , for example , cases where the child is proposing to submit to a sterilisation , an abortion , the removal of an organ for donation , or some similar non-therapeutic procedure , or where the child is refusing to submit to some procedure necessary to prolong or save the child 's life or to protect the child from really serious and irreparable harm . |
| 5 | The parents need to know how to gauge the child 's response and achieve their aim without anger or upset . |
| 6 | Parental involvement in decision-making is often restricted to identifying those aspects of the child 's behaviour that fit or do not fit with the views of the professionals . |
| 7 | Positive parenting is an approach to child management that emphasizes the good qualities of the child 's behaviour and helps the parent to become aware of them . |
| 8 | You could think of your child 's behaviour as falling into three colour codes : green , amber and red . |
| 9 | The girl handed her charge to Nanny , who immediately straightened the child 's dress and re-tied her hair ribbon . |
| 10 | Will they feel empty on the last child 's departure and give substance to what is often called the ‘ empty nest ’ syndrome of marriage ? |
| 11 | There is little point in trying to transmit a professional 's " feel " for something to a parent who is anxious about his or her child 's education but does not know very much about the intricacies of teaching and learning . |
| 12 | In either case , it will be necessary to attach a small microphone somewhere below the child 's chin and to provide some arrangement for the child to carry around the radio transmitter or the small tape recorder . |
| 13 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
| 14 | The morning stirred in the trees and interrupted the sleep of stem and leaf and fruit and blossom as gently and efficiently as a mother lifting the cover from her child 's bed and blowing on her face in play to wake her . |
| 15 | The reply by the minister was a direct echo of Mary Carpenter : ‘ The principle behind this provision in the bill is that parents should be required — if their means so permit — to pay for their child 's board and lodging , so that they are in no way better off as a result of the child 's being in care . ’ |
| 16 | This is because so many instinctual demands which will later be unserviceable can not be suppressed by that rational operation of the child 's intellect but have to be tamed by acts of repression behind which , as a rule , lies the motive of anxiety . |
| 17 | We , er , we 're naturally concerned to know whether there are , er , people working here who have a direct contact with the newspaper that first reported the child 's birth and linked it with Dr. Briant 's work . ’ |
| 18 | She pointed a finger the size of a salami at the child 's head and shouted , ‘ You look like a rat with a tail coming out of its head ! ’ |
| 19 | Testing of children has always legitimately had separate purposes : diagnostic — to enable the teacher to calibrate their own assessment of a child 's difficulty and judge the next best line for development ; setting of tests to establish mastery of a particular piece of learning when of concept , skill or information ; and standardised to set one 's own information against some comparators . |
| 20 | While it is true that a sensitive adult will respond intuitively to a child 's language and make numerous adjustments to his or her own language in a way that will reflect the child 's strengths and weaknesses , it may nevertheless be helpful to make these explicit in a written assessment so that intuitions can be further re fined on the basis of objective information . |
| 21 | This ought not to present any problems , although it is probably a good idea to emphasise the importance of the child 's language and to try to reduce any anxiety or embarrassment that adults might feel at the prospect of being recorded . |
| 22 | If the child in question is placed on the Child Protection Register , review conferences must be held regularly to monitor the child 's safety and to review his or her registration . |
| 23 | The 20-page revised document , Guidance on Possible Forms of Control in Children 's Residential Care , describes forms of permissible restraint , including holding a child 's arm or holding the child against a wall , but says such force should never be used punitively and should reflect the needs of individual situations . |
| 24 | An example of the first process is a mother 's tendency to ‘ fuss ’ over a female child 's appearance and to stress her prettiness — ‘ You are a pretty little girl ’ . |
| 25 | To serve and accept serviceof documents on the child 's behalf and to explain the contents to the child if he has sufficient understanding . |
| 26 | Place your lips around the child 's mouth and breathe into his lungs |
| 27 | It 's natural , promotes your child 's growth and helps to protect against allergy and infection . |
| 28 | It 's natural , promotes your child 's growth and helps to protect against allergy and infection . |
| 29 | Communication is vital if we are to see the quality of a child 's thinking and assess the support it needs . |
| 30 | But the development of a child 's body and mind in the first three years of life is absolutely vital — any stunting of growth in these years can not be made up for in later life . |