Example sentences of "[pos pn] child to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it compulsory for my child to be involved in Compact ? |
| 2 | Similarly , parents of children who have been victims of sexual offences may not want their child to be interrogated and to go through the trauma of reliving the experience in court . |
| 3 | ‘ Hothousing is entirely different because it involves a pushy parent force-feeding their child to be bright — the natural spark is n't necessarily there , ’ says Mr Short . |
| 4 | Parents vary in the quantity they expect their child to be able to eat so a food diary can help the therapist determine appropriate quantities with the parents . |
| 5 | Some parents with HIV choose to make arrangements for their child to be adopted and they and their children have the opportunity of selecting and getting to know the adoptive parents . |
| 6 | They can not be permitted to isolate their child and view him or her as different from other blacks ; rather they must perceive their child to be an extension of other black people . |
| 7 | Her father had worked long hours for the convent in his time , he had paid many times over in advance for his child to be housed and educated , had he but known it . |
| 8 | If you want your child to be kind , let him know how pleased you are when he shares sweets or acknowledge her deed when she comforts a younger child who is crying . |
| 9 | If you can not manage on your own or with family and friends , or if you prefer not to involve them , you can ask for your child to be looked after by local authority foster parents for a short or longer period . |
| 10 | While it can not be compulsory for your child to be involved in Compact it is reasonable to assume that most young people would wish to be involved since Compact supports them in achieving standards of attainment and behaviour that schools are striving to raise . |
| 11 | They do n't want you to be Queen — they want your child to be King or Queen . |
| 12 | Try to avoid telling your child to be careful every time it goes to play with a friend . |
| 13 | In fact we were , rather condescendingly , informed that teaching methods had changed since the 1960s and we could not expect our child to be educated in the same manner as we ourselves had been . |