Example sentences of "child [vb mod] be [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motivation for the project was : staff recognition of a need to evaluate whether children made any real progress in their written work between 1st year infants and 4th year juniors ; whether too much was expected too soon , and whether it is possible to decide an age when the average child could be expected to be competent in certain skills ; whether the language curriculum throughout the school was sufficiently broad in terms of coverage or whether there was unnecessary duplication ; whether the most able children were being stretched enough ; whether there was any justification for ‘ setting ’ across classes for certain kinds of work ; whether pooling teacher energy and resources on a common topic increased intra-staff awareness and co-operation , and co-operation and interest among children from different classes ; and finally , whether whole-school topic work appeared sufficiently worthwhile in terms of children 's learning experiences to warrant repetition at some future date . |
| 2 | Telling a child that he or she is bad when they have behaved wrongly is common in the West , but as Susan Sontag has observed , it is unheard of in the East , where the child would be told to be ashamed of itself . |
| 3 | Section 17(10) defines children in need as follows : a child shall be taken to be in need if : ( a ) he is unlikely to achieve or maintain , or to have the opportunity of achieving or maintaining , a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision for him of services by a local authority under [ Part III of the Act ] ; ( b ) his health or development is likely to be significantly impaired , without the provision for him of such services ; or ( c ) he is disabled . |
| 4 | The decision turned on a principle of civil law to the effect that an unborn child shall be deemed to be born whenever its interests require it , but in the course of his judgment Lamont J. observed , at p. 345 : |
| 5 | There are other contexts however , to which I shall come , in which the English courts have adopted as part of English law the maxim of the civil law that an unborn child shall be deemed to be born whenever its interests require it — or as put by Lord Westbury L.C. in Blasson v. Blasson ( 1864 ) 2 De.G . |
| 6 | Parents may be faced with the question of whether their child will be considered to be ‘ special ’ in an ordinary school , or ‘ ordinary ’ in a special school . |
| 7 | Children 's early invented spellings often demonstrate logical consistency ; this grasp of regularity should be recognised as an initial achievement and children should be helped to be confident in attempting to spell words for themselves without undue dependence on the teacher . |