Example sentences of "a child ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red walls of baked earth , crenellated like a child 's fort ; neat , red courtyards ; a red street with a line of palm trees down the centre . |
| 2 | Child welfare legislation therefore potentially addresses all aspects of a child 's development not covered by school legislation . |
| 3 | Reading for pleasure is an essential part of a child 's development of language skills . |
| 4 | This process involves the combination of love and discipline in a secure and balanced family environment where both parents are present to contribute to a child 's development into maturity . |
| 5 | In the early stages of a child 's development the visual problem can be masked . |
| 6 | Part of a child 's development is the evolution of a concept called by psychologists the ‘ self . |
| 7 | A child 's development always takes place within a context of contemporaneous events , the most important of which result from the parents ' activities . |
| 8 | In the first phase , from the early 1960's to the early 1970's , attitudes towards the role of linguistic factors in a child 's development were deeply influenced by the ideas of Basil Bernstein and his circle . |
| 9 | From these memories he developed a theory that there were three main stages in a child 's development . |
| 10 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 11 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 12 | The Guyanese girl struck with a hard , angry scrape and in the flare he saw that there was a child 's head on a bolster at the end of the small hump . |
| 13 | He saw a child 's head peer round the wing of the comfortable chair , the child from last night . |
| 14 | In the first stages of a child 's head injury , staff here give vital support to the family . |
| 15 | A child 's skin heals fast — an aged skin takes much longer . |
| 16 | A child 's skin is much thinner than an adult 's and so more prone to burning . |
| 17 | In schools where headteachers were responsive , the information which was passed to me often provided vital insights into a child 's difficulties . |
| 18 | No one would bother to look in a child 's hiding place . |
| 19 | The Trustee Act 1925 , ss31-32 , should be extended ( see Williams on Wills 6th edn , Butterworths , 1987 , vol 2 , p1267 and 1275 ) if monies are to be retained until such child or children come of age , so that the trustees have flexibility in their use of both income and capital of a child 's share of the trust fund , as should the power of investment so that it is not limited by the Trustee Investments Act 1961. ( v ) Insurance — Section 19(1) of the Trustee Act 1925 limits a trustee 's power to insure to insurance against fire to three-quarters of the value of the property ; as the trustees will probably not have any cash , the occupier wife should be made responsible for insurance . |
| 20 | This information is important if a child 's test score is to be compared with information from the standardisation sample in order to make judgements about relative severity of a linguistic problem or language delay . |
| 21 | Jackson herself saw the danger in 1976 : ‘ Unless you can accept a child 's colour , you will always be rejecting a very important part of him ’ ( p. 4 ) . |
| 22 | Under the Children Act 1989 a child 's lack of suitable education had ceased to be a specific ground for taking him/her into care . |
| 23 | I was never asked to discuss the final Report with her or with Mr Baker , so I can not be sure about her reasons , but from her radio and television appearances it seemed she found repugnant our insistence that a child 's dialect is not inaccurate in its use of grammar and should be respected . |
| 24 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 25 | Adoption workers need to accommodate in their thinking and practice more than one concept simultaneously , that is , the achievement of ‘ open ’ adoption or adoption with contact where it is in a child 's interests but within a framework of legal security . |
| 26 | A crucial aspect of a child 's interests is thus ignored . |
| 27 | Yesterday councillors on Hammersmith and Fulham council 's social services committee said they needed to know full details of the case , but that the law required a child 's interests were put first . |
| 28 | It is not easy to follow a child 's thoughts as he pours , fills and empties . |
| 29 | How then to conceptualise works such as Polly Binns ' minimalist and rather beautiful series ‘ Overstrand to Side Strand ’ ( 1992 ) , white linen squares , slit , painted and stitched ; Beverley Clark 's untitled construction with its large wood-stained pieces of canvas threaded onto nylon , like the beads of a child 's necklace ; or Sally Freshwater 's snaking folds of linen held taut with rods , expanding across one wall of the Crafts Council gallery . |
| 30 | A child 's piping question about the next ‘ act ’ — a professional juggler currently on the variety bill in a nearby town — was hurriedly hushed , as much by the Colonel 's glare as its mother 's whisper . |