Example sentences of "young babies " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is frequently said that the development of skilled movement ‘ lags ’ a long way behind that of skilled perception , and in one sense this is certainly true : young babies have excellent visual acuity as revealed by their behavioural discrimination of , and neural responsivity , to gratings and chequerboards — but we do n't see them playing darts ! |
| 2 | Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ? |
| 3 | As for the Gujeratis from East Africa , in many cases the whole joint family has been transplanted into Britain , from young babies even to great grandmothers . |
| 4 | So often very young babies are perfectly hideous , are n't they ? |
| 5 | New Mums group is aimed at mums with young babies and mums-to-be . |
| 6 | New Mums group is aimed at mums with young babies and mums-to-be . |
| 7 | I did n't get much opportunity to talk to for any length of time but she managed to arrange to meet with the others with young babies and we planned to get together again later that week . |
| 8 | New Mums group is aimed at mums with young babies and mums-to-be . |
| 9 | New Mums group is aimed at mums with young babies and mums-to-be . |
| 10 | New Mums group is aimed at mums with young babies and mums-to-be . |
| 11 | Very young babies show rage , turning scarlet in the face and screaming , but only when they become toddlers can they hit out at whoever is preventing them from doing what they want . |
| 12 | For young babies , choking and suffocation are major death risks ; and protection from accident , infection , and excessive heat or cold is of vital importance . |
| 13 | All babies need feeding and changing and there are not too many ways of doing it ; the range and subtlety of young babies ' gestures is restricted ( they do not for instance converse ) , and in response , mothers tend to simplify and exaggerate their own gestures . |
| 14 | This is when the labyrinth is developing and the young babies , which are about 1cm long by this time , are taking their first of air . |
| 15 | A recent research project has certainly proved that a large number of very young babies would stop crying or even go to sleep whenever they heard the introductory music to certain television soap operas . |
| 16 | Even very young babies turn their heads away from something they do n't want . |
| 17 | Having fewer children , of course , gives rise to a situation which so many 20th-century parents will understand only too well : that one minute there are young babies in the house needing constant attention , while the next , in the twinkling of an eye it seems , Darby and Joan are staring around an empty house and having to re-learn the art of living with each other all over again . |
| 18 | Young babies have no knowledge of the social niceties which will thenceforward determine their social response . |
| 19 | One way of trying to test this might be to show the skyline to very young babies and see how they responded . |
| 20 | Experimental studies have also demonstrated that young babies can separate a continuous stream of speech sounds into discrete phonetic units and that they are sensitive to phonemic changes — for example , the difference between/p/ and/d/ — only a few weeks after birth ( Eimas et al . |
| 21 | Once this was discovered , the amount of oxygen given to young babies was carefully monitored and a dramatic fall in the number of cases resulted . |
| 22 | The number of very young babies available has decreased and for the moment the Society has reluctantly decided to close its list to applicants seeking straightforward babies under one year . |
| 23 | Now if the liberationist can persuade us that this passionate regard for normal young babies is based upon an unjustifiable prejudice in favour merely of our own species , and that apart from this , animals are no different , then consistency should require that both groups ought to be accorded the same treatment . |
| 24 | For example , we could not set up an experiment to test the effect on young babies of being left in complete isolation , except for being fed regularly . |
| 25 | Young babies inflict substantial disruption on their mother 's sleep in their first three months of life , when they are at their most dependent , when the mother 's judgement and good temper are most important . |
| 26 | Parents hold ‘ conversations ’ , even with very young babies , as the following ‘ dialogue ’ between a mother and her two-month-old daughter clearly shows : |
| 27 | A large proportion of the women in the column were pregnant , and many were carrying young babies in their arms . |
| 28 | Some had very young children and ( like many mothers of young babies ) felt they ought to stay at home and care for them . |
| 29 | I mean , we 've lived together since we were young babies , and to them it 's nothing . |
| 30 | Mothers of young babies want the products they use in babycare to be absolutely " right " ; either ( i ) the product should be well known , widely recognised and easy to understand or ( ii ) it must have the endorsement of authoritative sources . |