noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a child star (= a child who is a famous performer )
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The production team say they have been careful to look after all their child stars.
be married with children (= to be married and have children )
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Kevin is married with four children.
child abuse
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several cases of child abuse
child abuse
child benefit
child custody
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Matters of child custody are dealt with by the courts.
child labour
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The shoe company was accused of using child labour in its factory.
child molester
child poverty
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There is increasing child poverty in our country.
child prodigy
child protection
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Officers from the child protection team were called in after the girl turned to a neighbour for help.
child seat
child support
Child Tax Credit
child/infant prodigy
children's home
delinquent girls/boys/children/teenagers
dependent children (= who you are still supporting financially )
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Do you have any dependent children ?
Deprived children
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Deprived children tend to do less well at school.
eldest son/daughter/brother/child etc
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My eldest daughter is 17.
flower child
fractious baby/child etc
gifted child (= one who is extremely intelligent )
infant/child/maternal/adult mortality
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an appallingly high infant mortality rate number of babies who die
inner child
love child
mother and child
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the relationship between mother and child
orphan girl/boy/child
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a poor little orphan girl
poster child
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Dillon is the poster child for wasted talent.
precocious child
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a precocious child who walked and talked early
sickly child
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a sickly child
street children
the sole surviving/remaining member/child etc
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His sole surviving child, Mary, succeeded to the throne at the age of one week.
Unaccompanied children
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Unaccompanied children are not allowed on the premises.
unsuitable for children
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The book is unsuitable for children .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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We may be young to ourselves, but we will always be old to our children .
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Likewise, older people whose children are grown may not need life insurance unless they expect to leave a large estate.
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Few authorities were felt to have a coherent policy on supporting their older children .
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Those males remaining in Natal are mostly old men or children .
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Three and four-year-olds have very different play needs to older children .
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Younger children favor expiatory punishment; older children favor punishment by reciprocity.
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They were carrying a glittering bundle which, on closer inspection, proved to be a four-year-#old child .
only
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The only child left now was the eldest girl, still locked in the bathroom upstairs.
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I was horrified especially by the daughter, who appeared to be an only child .
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It must be terrible to lose an only child; to lose any child.
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An only child , Lott quickly adopted Dee Lemaitrie, the girl next door, as his sister.
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She was a small, dumpy woman, nothing like her only child in either looks or personality.
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Even an only child feels that other children have some great advantages over him, and this makes him intensely jealous.
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A year after their marriage she produced his only legitimate child , a daughter whom they christened Jennifer.
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Mary Leapor was an only child , but she grew up surrounded by a large extended family.
small
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Presumably no one does any more, for the programme for small children no longer has that title.
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I had a wife and four small children .
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The adult response of reason is swept away to reveal the small child cowering under parental wrath.
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Those cases paralleled crash test results dating back to the 1970s that showed dangers to small adults and children from airbags.
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Also, they are mainly here because they have small children and no earnings of their own.
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The hamlet was almost deserted, except for two old women and some small children .
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The senator fell into step beside me while some of Bonefish's smaller children followed at a safe distance.
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Under the tousle of thick blond hair, he looks like a small child again.
young
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It was later revealed that Mr Argles had employed a boy who had been convicted of offences against young children .
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In most states, courts hold that very young children are incapable of contributory negligence.
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The management of young children is more difficult - most episodes are poison scares rather than true poisonings.
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The understanding of intentions can not be taught to young children through verbal methods.
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Faith is single, but I have two young children .
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Certainly, younger children show affection and have feelings of liking and disliking.
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Although these studies apply to older children the principle should hold for younger children where management problems are frequently linked with obesity.
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Most very young children are fascinated by the world around them.
■ NOUN
abuse
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Is there agreement amongst researchers about the nature of child abuse and how it can be defined?
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This is a hot line established by state child welfare agencies for the reporting of child abuse .
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The quality of research in the area of child abuse still leaves much to be desired.
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The legal system currently punishes the most egregious forms of child abuse and neglect, but such crimes are difficult to prove.
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Certain health education topics such as bereavement, child abuse and education for parenthood were omitted by large numbers of schools.
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By all reports, child abuse is rare.
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However, based on those two incidents, Avanesian was booked on suspicion of felony child abuse .
benefit
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How should the increase in child benefit be paid for?
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Against this he would gain an extra £4.60 a week in increased child benefit from Labour.
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These are child benefits , industrial injuries and death benefits, certain invalidity benefits, and attendance and mobility allowances.
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Are changes such as means-testing child benefit and state pensions simply unthinkable?
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From April, child benefits are to be raised in the hope of encouraging parents to produce a few more babies.
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This package, set against our pension and child benefit changes, will leave 96 percent. of families better off.
care
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The evacuation of children called for the development of special services, foreshadowing developments in child care practice after the war.
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Unlike child care considerations, which often can be planned months in advance, eldercare issues often occur without warning.
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At local level, responsibility for child care rests with the social services committees of the local authorities.
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Deplorable as our child care is, those who make the laws are largely unaffected.
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These emphasise trends towards a highly structured, reactive service based on individual protection, especially in child care .
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He bathed them, changed their diapers, and willingly helped, then and now, with every aspect of child care .
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The guide's aim to influence practice is reflected in its residential child care focus.
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She had a network of neighbors and relatives that provided child care .
school
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Primary school children wouldn't normally be given lessons in robotics until they were several years older.
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It is being asked to compensate for the failures of the education system by teaching school children art and history.
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It is iniquitous that higher education still discriminates against state school children .
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Mr Coffee will cop to the situation by engaging only the five basic universal appliance functions that every school child will know.
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Approximately one-fifth of all school children are believed to have special educational needs of one sort or another.
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A special outing with the Sunday school children .
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Over 400 school children took part in the mock shopping experience.
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Other justices seemed concerned with the young age of the grade-#school children involved.
■ VERB
bear
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Next, their wives were fed since they could bear more children .
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She bore two children , Hercules to Zeus and Iphicles to Amphitryon.
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Women are now expected to bear 1.17 children , down from 1.89 in 1990.
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Do they want to Prevent these couples from bearing children too?
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After an early miscarriage she bore Louis just two children in fourteen years, and both of them were girls.
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Quintana, who works at a car wash, said she bore her first child at age 13.
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Women leave, afraid to bear children in a city so close to the reactor.
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In well-functioning marriages, spouses discuss important intimate decisions such as whether to bear a child .
bring
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Why does guidance act as a punisher since a child may enjoy the contact it brings ?
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What is the quality of the presence you bring to your children ?
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At the same time, they were keen to bring up their children as Roman catholics.
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I am the one who left my dear father and brought our children to the Pretty Country.
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They will pay other people to help bring up their children .
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It brings out the child and the tourist in even the most worldly of guests.
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And then, thank heaven, people will have somewhere decent to bring up their children .
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Unlike most snows, this one did not bring the children to Baxter Park.
help
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Now her family is setting up a charity to help children facing similar difficulties.
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Parents can help such highly sensitive children by showing them how to soothe themselves.
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Their representatives are helping thousands of orphaned children and displaced families escape from the tyranny of civil war.
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Rather than helping their children become more in-dependent, parents become overly involved and promote further dependence.
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The goat's milk helped the children to survive but Boris, who grew fast, suffered.
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There, he helped neglected children and criminals until his death.
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We want to help , but child sponsorship can be harmful for the child, her family and community.
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Eventually this practice will help your child to consider his aggression and anger.
love
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She loved children and had wanted to have several.
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How can you love children whose every effort is directed at ignoring you or hating you?
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If you can not love your client, could you at least love the child ?
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He comes back, swears he loves me and the children , but claims he can not live with us any more.
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Besides, loving children says nice things about you, too, as a caring and decent person.
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Parents love each child , and it grieves them to witness the hitting, hurting and hateful things said to each other.
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She had loved Christmas like a child .
teach
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But when the parent is teaching the child to do what is asked, the parent needs to wait and check.
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The understanding of intentions can not be taught to young children through verbal methods.
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If we come up with a different game each time we do drama, what are we teaching the children ?
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Fill-in-the-blank questions teach children little about actual conversation.
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The basic principle is so to organise teaching that children have experience of producing written language across these various forms.
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Their parents, dutiful slaveholding Episcopalians at Charleston, were tolerant enough to permit their daughters to teach the Negro children .
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Nobody teaches a child the actual mechanics of producing word sounds or how to use his mind to think or experience emotions.
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Apparently, they taught their children well.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gaggle of tourists/children etc
an only child
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And I was an only child.
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E is for Ethel For most of my life I was an only child.
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I was brought up by adoptive parents as an only child.
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It must be terrible to lose an only child; to lose any child.
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Maman had given the impression she was an only child, she thought, but was that the truth?
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Shared nannies are becoming more popular and other children can provide stimulation and company if yours is an only child.
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Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child, and got born into a large family by a mistake.
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The princess grew up thinking she was an only child but one day discovered she had twelve brothers.
at-risk children/patients/groups etc
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First, that it detects the affected or at-risk groups, and second that these can then be referred for suitable treatment.
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Other potential strategies include the provision of vitamin A supplements to at-risk groups.
baby/child/car seat
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Boots have stopped selling car seats but say they will offer further information to people who've bought the Rainbow seat.
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He thought about hiding it in the car seat , but Firebug was always moving the thing around.
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However, a baby seat is safer than a carrycot for your baby.
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It fits all Kangol framed child seats .
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Miguel told him, picking a spot opposite the car seat for the desk.
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Some baby seats can be converted into car seats for older children.
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Two options you can not add, unfortunately, are a built-in child seat and fold down rear seatback.
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When buying a baby seat check its weight, capacity and whether it has an integral harness and quick-release buckle.
bring a child into the world
deserted wife/husband/child etc
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In practice, the treatment of widows and deserted wives varied considerably from region to region.
foster child/son/daughter
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And then they went into this foster children um, having a home for foster children.
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As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.
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Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.
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Roland then removed the spell from himself and the good foster daughter.
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The witch was able to see her foster daughter and Roland fleeing because of her magic powers.
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These foster children are not available for adoption.
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These are establishments which, for a fee, will undertake to foster children of very tender years.
great with child
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But my wife is great with child!
grown children/daughter/son
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I had two grown daughters, and when I lost the first one, this one became the apple of my eye.
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See more of his grown daughter and son.
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Seeing photographs of Rubilove Willcox Aiu in newspapers last Sunday was unexpected and bewildering for her grown children.
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Tall, slender and divorced, Sheila had-incredibly-two grown sons.
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The senator, 72, has a grown daughter by his former wife but is of grandfatherly vintage now.
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Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.
leave a wife/children etc
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He leaves a wife and three children.
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Joel Gascoyne died in London 13 February 1705 leaving a wife, Elizabeth.
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Mr Fraser-Smith, who lived in Devon, leaves a wife and two children.
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Professor Brown, who was 47, leaves a wife Evelyn, also an Open University tutor and 3 children.
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The college also offers a creche for two to five-year-olds so that parents can leave children in safe hands.
middle brother/child/daughter etc
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My middle daughter was like that, tall and slim and you could hardly tell.
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My older brother played Elvis music at his wedding, and my middle brother and I rolled our eyes.
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Now, for the middle child.
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Richard Nixon: A middle child who became known for diplomacy in foreign affairs, among other things.
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The wronged self Peter is the middle child of five.
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They may send the middle children to Jessy's parents in an attempt to get the eldest through secondary school.
newborn child/baby/son etc
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How does one recognise pain in a newborn baby to whom one can not speak?
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In 1987 our newborn baby died.
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In the early 1950s an effective method of resuscitating newborn babies who did not breathe was not known.
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No one expects a newborn baby to go out and get a job before learning the basic life skills and getting schooling.
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One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care, but recovered in a few days.
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The occasional incidents of newborn babies being stolen from public hospitals understandably causes a furore.
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Under a window lay our newborn son crowned by a spectrum, the seven strands of vision.
overgrown schoolboy/child
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Eddie is an overgrown schoolboy with a penchant for pulling fleshy faces.
problem child/family/drinker etc
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A basic issue between Paul and the Corinthian problem children was over a proper understanding of the self.
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Another reason to consider a moderation-goal option is that a broader range of problem drinkers can be attracted and treated.
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BAccording to a federal survey, men are much more likely to be problem drinkers than women.
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Data collection is mainly by questionnaire and structured interviews with families, youth groups and problem drinkers.
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It does reflect the position of the Corinthian problem children, however.
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Services for problem drinkers are very fragmented at present.
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They were talking about a problem child.
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This problem drinker population has been largely ignored or at least underserved.
wife/child beater
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Kurt was a Bible-college student and a wife beater .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Children under 14 travel free.
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Admission is $5, children under 12 are free.
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After her first baby was born, Barb read child development books constantly.
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Alexandra was an only child and the centre of her mother's world.
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an attractive, happy child
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As a child , she preferred playing football with the boys to playing with dolls.
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Every child was given a present.
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How many children are there in your class?
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How many children does Jane have?
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I don't want children - I'm married to a child and that's enough.
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Medical staff, seeing that the child was in danger, decided to perform an operation.
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Michael and Ronda had their first child last year.
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Nationwide, only one in four cases of child abuse and neglect is reported.
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One of her children lives in Australia now.
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Roberta's second child weighed over four kilos at birth.
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She named her first child Katrin.
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The house seems very quiet now that all the children have left home.
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The state will provide child care when both parents participate in the training program.
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While growing up in North Carolina, Amos was considered a child prodigy on the piano.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And for the last 3 days, they've been living on the food they'd planned to give to the children.
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But you know how children accept almost anything that grown ups tell them.
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For example a husband can make payments on behalf of his wife and children or viceversa.
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Logistics do: getting dinner, keeping house, overseeing child care, buying equipment.
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That contrasts with three out of five Anglo children who use a computer at school.
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When she was a child , she had invited her to stay.
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Work-inhibited children who enjoy good relationships with their parents are likely to find their own way.