Example sentences of "child [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranulf Rayner first skied as a child between the legs of a Bavarian guide in 1939 . |
| 2 | As a child between the wars this had been his playground . |
| 3 | When we consider this dilemma for the child between ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ wrongness ’ and wanting to be loved , we can start to understand the traumatic guilt experienced by victims of child abuse . |
| 4 | There are difficulties assessing the child between the age of 2 and 4 years and so a range of different tests is used in an attempt to tap a wide range of the child 's skills and maintain the child 's interest and motivation to co-operate . |
| 5 | For example , in the 1946 birth cohort , women who had their first child at age 15–19 went on to produce an average of 2.8 by age 36 , compared to 1.9 children in all for mothers who had their first child between ages 28–30 . |
| 6 | I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what it was like to be a child between say the age of five and ten . |
| 7 | In a corpus of over 300 such compounds produced by one child between the ages of two years two months and three years two months , over two-thirds marked explicit contrasts , e.g. , tea-sieve versus water-sieve for a small and large strainer respectively , or car-truck versus cow-truck for pictures of a car-transporter and cattle-lorry ( Clark , Gelman and Lane , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves . |
| 9 | For example , Phoenix , in her study of women who had their first child between the age of 16 and 19 , argued that contrasting the lives of Black and white women did little to illuminate their experiences of becoming a mother ( Phoenix , 1991 ) . |
| 10 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 11 | From a mother , who has HIV , to her child during pregnancy . |
| 12 | A recent survey found that one third of women employees planned to have a child during the next few years . |
| 13 | The teacher spoke to every child during the lesson and when one looked like being missed other children cheerfully pointed out the omission . |
| 14 | Equally it seems nonsense to anticipate the recording of that volume and complexity of assessment for each child during lesson time . |
| 15 | For example , if Keith destroys ten brick towers and stabs six dolls with a plastic sword during his play therapy and subsequently attacks only one child during one day at nursery school , are we to record the number of towers , the number of stabs or the number of attacks ? |
| 16 | Parents are delighted with what they learn about their child during these sessions . |
| 17 | If the mother learns how to gain positive interaction from her child during shopping many of the behaviour problems will resolve immediately . |
| 18 | Giving the mother a small job to do in the same room as the child during the meal will help distract her . |
| 19 | Preparing potatoes at the sink with her back turned to the child can be a helpful way of encouraging her to ignore the child during eating . |
| 20 | If the child is also refusing food , the problem could have developed with the parent 's trying to distract the child during feeding . |
| 21 | Many mothers do not even try to toilet train their children until the age of 2 years or later while others deliberately train their child during the first year of life ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) . |
| 22 | Similarly , there is no known way of preventing a woman with HIV infection from passing the virus to her unborn child during pregnancy . |
| 23 | In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ . |
| 24 | This model of mutual sensitivity and responsiveness becoming established between parent and child during the earliest months of life provides a background against which to examine the main issues of this section . |
| 25 | On the contrary , as Donaldson argued , perhaps the major task for the child during the school years is to learn to handle information that is decontextualized . |
| 26 | There are , of course , differences in temperament and speed of learning between infants even at this early stage , as well as differences in reaction to stimuli and in state of alertness — but any mother will acknowledge the change observable in behaviour patterns of her child during its first week of life . |
| 27 | The social services departments supervise the child during the statutory three-month period that elapses between the notification of adoption proceedings and the making of an adoption order by the court ; a social worker is usually appointed as a guardian ad litem , i.e. for the duration of the case , to interview the prospective adopters , investigate the relevant circumstances and report to the court . |
| 28 | I think it was his fourth , but as I had been a child during this proliferation of fiancées I was n't certain . |
| 29 | Without it , looking after a child during the day would mean some of them having to give up their studies . |
| 30 | I know that in Beirut I simply took my child through the checkpoints and delivered her at the school gates . |