Example sentences of "child [is] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is no speech by three , indeed if there is no speech earlier than that , it might be very important to check that the child is not deaf . |
| 2 | If there is no speech by three , indeed if there is no speech earlier than that , it might be very important to check that the child is not deaf . |
| 3 | The Act continues : ‘ Where a children 's hearing are satisfied in a case concerned with an offence mentioned in the Criminal Procedure ( Scotland ) Act of 1975 , that the attendance of a child is not necessary for the just hearing of that case , or in any case where they are satisfied that it would be detrimental to the interest of the child to be present at the hearing of his case , the case in whole or in part , may be considered in the absence of the child . ’ |
| 4 | The child is not capable of controlling this flow and will show staining of his or her pants . |
| 5 | Four paragraphs later where the second quotation appears , the child is not unable to take responsibility but is refusing to take it . |
| 6 | Some linguistic abilities may not be detected , not because the child is not able to demonstrate them , but simply because the occasion did not arise where they were required . |
| 7 | If a child is not able to meet this criterion , then the method is not appropriate . |
| 8 | The child is not dead … |
| 9 | If we must have ‘ classics ’ let us accept James Steel Smith 's definition of a book that ‘ provides some special imaginative experience which the child is not likely to get from other sources — or at least in the same degree of intensity — and which ‘ it would be a shame for him to miss ’ ( 1967 , p. 121 ) . |
| 10 | Thus could a parent make a fairly reasonable answer which would acknowledge that the child is not silly , and has a perfect right to be treated in an adult way when he asks a serious question . |
| 11 | This requires a lot of persistence by the parent particularly when the child is not interested in food . |
| 12 | The process of scaffolding the communicative abilities of young children is not straightforward and depends on how the adult interprets the child 's verbal and non-verbal communication . |
| 13 | Above all , he insisted sternly , ‘ The mother of young children is not free , or at least should not be free , to earn . ’ |