Example sentences of "[prep] a young [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tells of a young offenders institution where five inmates have made a pact that if one commits suicide the other four can be freed ‘ for psychological reasons ’ . |
| 2 | Very occasionally his path crossed that of a couple walking home or a group of a young friends going up to the centre , and then the brief appraising glances they gave him left Zen feeling obscurely ill at ease , underlining as they did his lack of purpose or direction . |
| 3 | Use instead a bowstring of rhinoceros hide , for it will snap asunder the bowstrings of all other bows to which the sound reaches whether these are made of the hide of wild ox , the horse , or even the flanks of a young nilgai . |
| 4 | When I wanted publicity for a young persons ' trip to London , arranged to allow them to talk to MPs of all parties , your paper did not publish the Press release . |
| 5 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 6 | But er according to my mother 's great joy , she got seasick even on the landing stage in in Liverpool and never came out of her cabin , so she had a big time as a young women running around the ship . |
| 7 | He had known this district all his life , had come back to it as a young police detective for his first major case , and its vitality and capacity for change amazed him . |
| 8 | He wrote to his biographer that as a young men he |
| 9 | During the year twelve people had been converted , eight of whom were young wives brought to Christ through a young wives ’ group . |
| 10 | An Oxford student has been sentenced to four months in a young offendors institute for supplying drugs . |
| 11 | Nathan Adams , 18 , David Elsom , 17 , Jason Green , 17 , Simon Lindley , 17 , Gavin Saunders , 17 , Richard Whittaker , 18 and Nicholas Crook , 18 , were sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 12 | He was sentenced to six months in a young offenders ' institute . |
| 13 | If she was a boy , she says , she would have been put in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 14 | He sentenced both to four years in a young offenders centre for hijacking and to six months for criminal damage . |
| 15 | So far , he 's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution . |
| 16 | Reynolds was sentenced to 3 years in a young offenders institution and disqualified from driving for 2 years . |
| 17 | McHugh , who is now also serving nine months in a young offenders centre for motoring offences , was sentenced to three months in jail on the Customs offences . |
| 18 | Judge William Hannah sentenced Elsdon to 21 months and Cook to 19 months , both in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 19 | He was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders ' institution disqualified from driving for two years . |
| 20 | Raymond Allison , 17 , of Amberley Green , Pallister Park , Middlesbrough , was sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institute when he appeared before Teesside Crown Court yesterday . |
| 21 | Thompson was sentenced to 27 months in a young offenders ' institute , and Livingstone was fined £150 . |
| 22 | Judge Angus Macdonald sentenced Diaz to 18 months in a young offenders institution and Walker to 12 months . |
| 23 | Burglar sentenced : Jamie Raper , 20 , of Wharfe Way , Darlington , was yesterday sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to 12 months in a young offenders ' institution after he admitted burgling a house in Carmel Road North , Darlington . |
| 24 | Fenton was given 18 months detention in a young offenders institution for the aggravated burglary and 12 months concurrent for each of the other offences . |
| 25 | Davies , a former RAF driver , was sentenced to two years in prison while Crook will spend two years in a young offenders institute . |
| 26 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 27 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 28 | Another of Minton 's friends , the Kingston School of Art lecturer Paul Holmes , was taken by Minton to see two abstracts by ‘ Francis Smiling ’ hanging in a Young Contemporaries show . |
| 29 | She was a pianist and he met her while they were both taking part in a young performers ' competition . |
| 30 | A 16-year-old girl from Bermondsey , south London , was sent to a young persons ' institution for four months yesterday after being found guilty at Seymour Place juvenile court of causing grievous bodily harm to Francis Ruth Waite , 24 , daughter of Terry Waite , held hostage in Lebanon . |