Example sentences of "[det] child ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the inevitable council estate , the houses painted pale green , blue , pink , as in some child 's drawing , and then , round a bend in the lane where you might have expected open fields , half a dozen houses of 1950s or '60s provenance , lavishly appointed , glamorously gardened , with big garages and big cars outside them . |
| 2 | Chief Inspector Graham said : ‘ Not only has this child 's life been ruined , but also the life of her parents . |
| 3 | This child 's name is Tomo . |
| 4 | This child 's name was Sarah Rimer . |
| 5 | The probable cause in this child 's case was a viral infection . |
| 6 | At a health post in West Java , a record is made of this child 's weight and immunisation details |
| 7 | Every peice like this child 's teaset will need to be photographed and catalogued on a computer . |
| 8 | 3 Brother with Down 's syndrome — Close family involvement in the management of this child 's asthma is important , and this will be less easy because of the care that his brother also needs . |
| 9 | They begin to associate certain forbidden actions and dangerous situations — running impulsively into the road or snatching another child 's toy — with disapproval or punishment , so they avoid them ; they are afraid of angering their parents or getting hurt . |
| 10 | A boy who deliberately punctures another child 's bicycle tyre not only has to repair the tyre , but also must oil and polish the entire vehicle . |
| 11 | Another child 's teeth were knocked in . |
| 12 | Next day , at the mum-and-toddler group , your gentle , chatty child turns into a little monster : she spitefully destroys another child 's sandcastle , throws a tantrum when she ca n't have the toy she wants , or screams in terror if you so much as walk across the room away from her . |
| 13 | In the meantime , Carol hopes it wo n't take another child 's death to convince other local authorities of the need to start running similar courses of their own . |
| 14 | But of course parents do get anxious , about little problems and large : that their children will eat too many sweets and watch too many unsuitable videos at another child 's house : that their child will be egged on to get up to pranks , truant from school or worse . |
| 15 | From examination of family life and some of the needs of children at home , the next writer , Nigel Parton , moves to the tragic issue of child abuse , a form of adult behaviour which makes some children 's home life a nightmare and which social workers find is one of the most difficult problems they have to address . |
| 16 | Tizard points to the fallacy of generalizing from these studies to the issue of day care , and is able to cite examples of American research evaluations which suggest that day care can actually be beneficial for some children 's development , and does not appear to impair children 's relationships with their parents . |
| 17 | During the toddler period some children 's awareness and motivation outstrips their co-ordination and so anger at not being able to get the doll 's arm into the jumper or the man into the fire engine can suddenly cause the child to scream in frustration and throw the toy across the room . |
| 18 | These topics may all be within some children 's experience . |
| 19 | She knew that although the shop stocked a few overalls and smocks and even some children 's clothes and sheepskin jackets , it was the long dresses with their wonderfully romantic feel and yards of material in the skirts , that the cognoscenti came to buy . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , parents will often impose their judgement , for instance condemning some pop music as " decadent " or just plain crude , and insisting that some children 's food brands are a rip-off ! |
| 21 | The team working on the Elton project says it 's had definite results — increasing some children 's concentration and that they join in more than before . |
| 22 | She gave him a stuffed bear and some children 's books . |
| 23 | Distinguishing some children 's books as ‘ classics ’ does serve one valuable purpose : it is the recognition that they are works of merit in their own right . |
| 24 | Indeed , so popular were the Pathfinders characters that several of them were hived off to appear in another children 's sf serial , City Beneath the Sea , a well written technological thriller penned by John Lucarotti . |
| 25 | The bikers were so angry that they rode off and gave the cash to another children 's hospice at Quidenham , Norfolk . |
| 26 | If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining . |
| 27 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
| 28 | A few children 's homes have been opened but they also double as reformatories for young offenders . |
| 29 | The Determined Potater : This children 's film tells of a spud with an eye for advancement . |
| 30 | They 're already stars of this children 's zoo … when the otters come out to play , everyone else comes out to watch . |