Example sentences of "child ['s] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( e ) Transfer to the High Court A county court may transfer proceedings to the High Court if it is appropriate and in the child 's interests for the case to be determined there ( APO , art 12 ) . |
| 2 | When the risk factor can not be eradicated , or the stressful experience avoided , an alternative approach to prevention is to focus attention instead on the child 's resources for coping with the problem . |
| 3 | In this example , it would have been easy for the teacher to have made the child 's decisions for her . |
| 4 | A cheap lock is child 's play for a thief . |
| 5 | I had not yet learnt that every German soldier from private upwards had had an elementary political education which made this sort of argument child 's play for him . |
| 6 | Such a government , Lawrence asserted , ‘ would be child 's play for a decent man to run , so long as he ran it like Cromer 's Egypt , not like the Egypt of the Protectorate . |
| 7 | Switching to the smaller barriers in 1987 has proved child 's play for the sweetheart from Chigwell ever since . |
| 8 | Switching to the smaller barriers in 1987 has proved child 's play for the sweetheart from Chigwell ever since . |
| 9 | It 's child 's play for him . |
| 10 | LIFE is obviously just child 's play for husband and wife TV presenters John Stapleton and Lynn Faulds Wood . |
| 11 | MAKING toys is child 's play for Courtaulds employee Ted Richards — and he ensures a perfect finish by using paint from International . |
| 12 | They expound their policy of minimal state interference to find the ‘ least detrimental available alternative ’ — one in which child placement and procedure for child placement ‘ maximises , in accord with the child 's sense of time , the child 's opportunity for being wanted and for maintaining on a continuous , unconditional and permanent basis , a relationship with at least one adult who is or will become the child 's psychological parent ’ ( Goldstein et al. , 1979 , p. 189 ) . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) That a secure accommodation order could only be made if the provisions of subsection ( 1 ) were satisfied and the justices had to consider the statutory criteria and then formulate their reasons within the criteria ; that the justices ' reasons clearly demonstrated that they had not considered whether the order was necessary to protect the child from harm if he was likely to abscond from other types of accommodation ; and that , therefore , the appeal would have to be allowed but the court would make an interim order restricting the child 's liberty for three weeks within which time the matter should be reheard ( post , pp. 93C–F , 94H — 95B , 96G–H , 98D ) . |
| 14 | So the teacher of a blind child , while allowing all along in the child 's education for the difficulties he encounters , still prefers to emphasise to everyone the sameness of the child ( his skills and achievements ) . |
| 15 | But behaviours are only consistently followed by predictable outcomes under certain conditions — for example , the child 's request for a drink is followed by a drink only if an adult hears the child 's request . |
| 16 | ‘ I was being self-indulgent … wishing to make a confession and to beg my child 's forgiveness for abandoning him . |
| 17 | The nature of these skills will be discussed below , but at this point it is necessary to recognise that seeing the process in this , light may create a gap between a teacher 's purpose and a child 's purpose for engaging in project-work methods . |
| 18 | It is not uncommon for one parent to ‘ use ’ the child 's illness for their own purposes in these domestic problems . |
| 19 | For this reason , assessments intended to provide a basis for making decisions about placement should consider not only the child 's performance under ‘ test ’ conditions , but also the child 's capacity for engaging in linguistic interactions in ‘ naturalistic ’ settings . |
| 20 | A child 's capacity for abstract reasoning ( for mathematics , say ) increases through puberty while the ability to learn languages is declining . |
| 21 | She had a new child 's seat for her car , the moment she got home , after the flowers for her sister , her young grandson was going for a drive . |
| 22 | Such ‘ incorrect ’ utterances seem to reflect the child 's search for underlying order in language , rather than reinforcement by adults . |
| 23 | Now Sainsbury 's can satisfy your child 's hunger for knowledge . |
| 24 | For pre-school children , it is suggested that the BPVT might be used as a screening instrument to identify children who may require some form of special or compensatory provision , and as a way of indicating a child 's readiness for reading . |
| 25 | The fully carved Victorian style of rocking horse has been a favourite child 's plaything for generations . |
| 26 | ABC Fun Keys will certainly hold your child 's attention for long periods and this quality program will certainly be a worthwhile addition to your child 's education programs . |
| 27 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 28 | I think I had the average child 's thirst for blood and a more than average thirst for romance . |
| 29 | Is it in that child 's interest for it to go home or is it in the child 's interest er for the responsibility to lie with the local authority or the High Court ? |
| 30 | Those coping effectively , who decided to marry the child 's father for other reasons besides the pregnancy , or who arranged adoption or termination of pregnancy , were less likely to become depressed . |