Example sentences of "child [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He issues an encyclical saying hard drugs should be made cheaply available to addicts to cut out the mobsters , and insists that every child ought to be a wanted child . |
| 2 | Throughout the Plowden Report runs the assumption that what is taught in schools ( ie what we , the adults expect children to learn ) must relate to where the child is ( intellectually , social , emotionally ) rather than to where we think the child ought to be . |
| 3 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 4 | This is what I call the strategy of non-decision , the decision that we will do nothing , that we wo n't harass the child , that we will give the child time to relax and move at his own pace , rather than determining the pace that we feel the child ought to be following . |
| 5 | This emerged as the consensus view on the juvenile ‘ crime wave ’ of the 1930s , and The Times was also speaking for a wide consensus when it suggested in a lead article that , ‘ It is a good and wise rule that , as far as possible , delinquent children ought to be left at home . ’ |
| 6 | change the way that we thought children ought to be and educa |
| 7 | Children used to be told of one triumph after another . |
| 8 | " On the top of the hill near King Darzin 's palace there was a garden and here his many children and his chief followers ' children used to be taken to play by their mothers and nursemaids . |