Example sentences of "that the child is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would say that the child is capable — more or less — of recognizing that other people have mental states different to his own . |
| 2 | The first do n't is not to believe that the child is lazy because he or she is not managing to spell . |
| 3 | A second possibility is that the child is able to employ a set of relatively sophisticated strategies for analysing adult speech . |
| 4 | In this way the child 's performance is continually sustained by the adult who , almost paradoxically , is always seeking to withdraw so that the child is able to participate in interactions as an independent and autonomous individual . |
| 5 | There is also considerable evidence ( as marshalled by Ingram 1975 ) to suggest that up to the age of six years it is mainly short , simple but still hierarchically structured sentences that the child is able to produce . |
| 6 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 7 | It may already have been established that the child is likely to be mentally handicapped ; it may , for example , be known to be brain damaged , or Down 's . |
| 8 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |