Example sentences of "the child [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some parents feel that the problem centres on the child 's not getting to the lavatory in time ( Berg et al . |
| 2 | The child 's not very big ; |
| 3 | Here is another sense in which the child is not ‘ object ’ but ‘ person ’ , with a right to be heard , without an accompanying and inappropriate responsibility to decide . |
| 4 | ‘ The child is not badly hurt , Hector . |
| 5 | The child is not admonished ; Peter , adopting the role of the wise and reasonable father , notes his behaviour with amusement . |
| 6 | The point , of course , is that at the outset the child is not doing what he or she should but has to be started off . |
| 7 | Do not disturb this sleep unless there are other indications that the child is not sleeping a peaceful , healing sleep . |
| 8 | If there is disagreement over how seriously ill the child is , or how the illness should be dealt with , try to discuss these matters quietly when the child is not there , and agree on a common approach . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The child is not dead … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The second baseline may show no difference from the first in which case the child is not learning . |
| 14 | After the first few minutes the child is not going to learn any more from the experience and will either fall asleep , start to play , or get up to mischief in the room . |
| 15 | This requires a lot of persistence by the parent particularly when the child is not interested in food . |
| 16 | Presenting food to the child is not correlated with weight while prompts are highly correlated ; the higher the intensity of the prompt the higher the correlation ( Klesges et al . |
| 17 | The child is not capable of controlling this flow and will show staining of his or her pants . |
| 18 | The child is not choosing from modes but accepting this visual mixture . |
| 19 | The rationale behind this decision may be to make it abundantly clear that the child is not the product of the adopters ' relationship with each other or with anyone else . |
| 20 | The child is not the same as they are . |
| 21 | Four paragraphs later where the second quotation appears , the child is not unable to take responsibility but is refusing to take it . |
| 22 | For any relinquishing parents grieving is especially difficult since the child is not actually ‘ dead ’ , but still lives somewhere else . |
| 23 | The very freedom which marks the period of childhood gives unrivalled opportunity for picking up all sorts of information about the environment ; the child is not handicapped by attending school and listening to formal instruction which is for the most part unrelated to his interests and needs . |
| 24 | Both parents should , if possible , be brought to see the essentiality of relationships which are as smooth as possible if the child is not to be affected . |
| 25 | The parents are not church members , the child is not baptised but wants baptised , who makes the promises ? |
| 26 | ‘ The child is not mine . |
| 27 | For no claim can be permitted if the child is not mine . |
| 28 | That 's no good , because then the true worth of the child is not coming out , and at that age I mean , what had started it was last year I I did n't want him to do it . |
| 29 | Over-praising the child is not a good idea either . |
| 30 | but the child is not your child . |