After the birth, the biological mother declares in front of the civil registry office that her patron is the biological father of her child and gives up custody to her child in the court.
Sometimes, the British presenters can feel a little too frisky and eager to please, as when Beard declares in front of a statue of Ramses II that "the one thing you really get here is that size matters". Similarly, Schama's on-camera charisma can feel as if it has entered its own weird late phase, teetering on self-parody.
It is not important for her if a woman is a virgin when she marries, she declares in front of her very affectionate boyfriend.
He declared, in front of his old apartment complex, on West Seventy-first, "This it it!
Before he was even through the door, the teacher declared, in front of her colleague: "Your son is a waste!
The day before the deadline to recall the Chrysler models she visited a Jeep showroom and declared in front of television cameras: "I'm shocked.
"I am no longer eating steamed buns," a 65-year-old Shanghai man, who gave his last name as Chen, declared in front of a supermarket window emblazoned with the motto "No fake goods in Hualian".
Aged 14, I was flabbergasted when no one laughed at my new Freund Lars when he declared, in front of the whole class, and with no hint of a blush, that he had "Durchfall" (diarrhoea).
"Bob is doing a good job", the prime minister declared in front of the House of Commons liaison committee on 10 September, which surely makes the head of the civil service, Sir Bob Kerslake, unsackable for at least a few months.
Oh, how glorious it would all be, I had said - a sentiment shared by the travel editor, sober and enthusiastic, who had declared, in front of many equally enthused witnesses, that I was to write about my adventures in a weekly column.
The Ruling Establishment, he declared in front of a bloodred backdrop, "all believe the same elite conceit you shouldn't protect yourself.
