Example sentences of "a child who have [be] " in BNC.

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1 A smile like that of a child who had been caught stealing sugar and has no choice but to confess lit the Friar 's face .
2 A child who had been taught to pray to a Mother in Heaven would have a religious life radically different from that of a Christian child .
3 Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present .
4 A newspaper campaign to prevent breeding by some of the substandard individuals with whom society is saddled would be much more to the point than vapid maunderings about the welfare of a child who has been endowed with an almost perfect inheritance , and is being given the best possible care ! ’
5 For example , it is a recognized fact that a child who has been regularly beaten by one or both of his parents is extremely likely to inflict the same violence on his own children .
6 Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information .
7 A child who has been stretched emotionally and imaginatively in fashioning a pot from a lump of clay or weaving upon a simple loom will come , through the process of doing , to learn much about himself and gain some understanding of the pain , pleasure and struggle which underpin craftsmanship .
8 Under section 7 of the Act of 1980 , the parent of a child who has been refused admission to an aided school is given a right of appeal to an appeal committee against ‘ any decision made by or on behalf of the governors refusing … the child admission to ’ the school .
9 If Judge Galpin 's interpretation of the Act and the Rules is correct , it drives a coach and horses straight through an enormously important area of child protection within family relationships ; that is to say , the ability to prevent an abduction and the ability to prevent the possibility of an abduction , or to restore a child who has been abducted to the home where the child should be , unless or until the 21 days service or other abbreviated service has been effected , by which time it may be in certain cases far too late for the welfare of the child .
10 Article 12 of the Convention requires , prima facie , the mandatory return forthwith of a child who has been wrongfully removed , but article 13 , by reason of the Court of Appeal decision to which I have referred , also applies in this case .
11 They receive a child who has been badly let down in the past , who has to learn , painfully , how to care and trust again .
12 She wore a faintly sly and greedy look , like a child who has been promised a rather disreputable treat if it 's good .
13 The first explicit recognition comes , as for many women , with an apparently trivial event which provides route into the buried memories combined with hearing a story of a child who has been recently abused .
14 A local authority may therefore bring proceedings : ( i ) to prevent parents from removing a child accommodated by the local authority under voluntary arrangements where a return home is likely to harm the child significantly ; ( ii ) to protect a child who has been significantly harmed in the past where this is likely to happen again because , for example , a parent is known to abuse in certain recurring circumstances ; ( iii ) to protect a child who has never been harmed where the family history clearly places him at risk , eg a new born or a child reaching an age at which other children in the family have been harmed .
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