Example sentences of "child not " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sent him to proper schools — the first royal child not to have been educated by private tutors — but he was never just another pupil ; he was never allowed to forget the accident of birth that set him apart . |
| 2 | It 's too easy to tell a child not to make a fuss , it 's a big playground and to go and play away from whoever has hit them or kicked them or fallen out with them . |
| 3 | What would be the relevance of section I(2) ( a ) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , which makes it a criminal offence for the person legally liable to maintain the child not to provide , inter alia , medical care ? |
| 4 | Joseph Gill , John Pinney 's hard-drinking cousin , lived as near by as caretaker ; Peggy Marsh , described by Dorothy as ‘ one of the nicest girls I ever saw ’ , arrived after a month to help in running the enormous house ; and from the beginning Wordsworth and Dorothy were preoccupied with caring for a child not yet three years old called Basil Montagu . |
| 5 | Not just his brother , not just his murderer , but a woman of Isobel 's innocence and courage , the life of a child not yet born ? |
| 6 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 7 | On that basis of the civil law , the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held in Montreal Tramways v. Leveille [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 , that when a child not actually born at the time of an accident was subsequently born alive and viable , it was clothed with all the rights of action which it would have had if actually in existence at the date of the accident to the mother . |
| 8 | I do n't see what difference it makes , a child not understanding , there 's plenty I do n't understand . |
| 9 | ‘ If they tell the child not to do something , there 's a good reason . |
| 10 | But tell the child not to go near it and it will become fascinated by it . |
| 11 | Wo-man had a child not ‘ man and wo-man had a child ’ . |
| 12 | I mean it 's most unnatural for a child not to be chatting away in the presence of grandparents is n't it ? |
| 13 | If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ? |
| 14 | If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ? |
| 15 | When he came back he sat beside the litter of his meal on the table among the three children not quite knowing what to do with himself . |
| 16 | In spite of the best efforts of the health service , we had been unable to persuade the public that by far the bigger danger was of children not being inoculated . |
| 17 | ‘ Have the children not been told ? ’ the nursemaid enquired of Aunt Rose once Victoria and Richard were ahead and out of ear-shot . |
| 18 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 19 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 20 | Eventually we came to an occasion when Eileen was about four years old , the only one of the children not yet at school . |
| 21 | ‘ We drummed it in to all three of our children not to go off with strangers and Johanna was sensible enough to listen , ’ said Robert . |
| 22 | This approach to children not only makes them precocious ( more so in America than Europe ) but ‘ precious ’ . |
| 23 | However , we believe that for children not to be taught anything about language is seriously to their disadvantage . |
| 24 | One of the first steps will be to organise genetic counselling for all children not yet tested . |
| 25 | Once parents start to try and rationalize the situation , over-compensate or feel guilty about their children not liking each other , the situation will only get worse . |
| 26 | Some parents become confused when staining is due to children not wiping themselves properly and so they may need to teach their children more precisely how to wipe their bottom . |
| 27 | Children not thine have trod my nursery floor : ’ |
| 28 | Parents may order children not to do these things , but such orders have little effect and no punishment is forthcoming if they are disobeyed . |
| 29 | Children not much younger than Rich arriving to be his nephews , nieces , playmates . |
| 30 | She completely ignored her husband until he fell asleep in his chair , whereupon she woke him up and berated him all the way up the stairs , their shouting and swearing affecting the children not one iota . |