Example sentences of "[adv] the young [noun] " in BNC.

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1 From studies of these countries , there appears to be an unwillingness of the elderly to seek assistance from their younger kin , although paradoxically the young report that they are more willing to give help than the elderly are willing to seek it .
2 ‘ Not seeing as how politely the young feller asked an ’ all . ’
3 Suddenly the young Englishman struggled with his bonds .
4 These reasons secured agreement among club workers because they offered an immediate , convenient , and popular response to what was universally seen as the major problem : how to keep adolescents , especially the young ones , ‘ off the streets ’ .
5 Especially the young ones .
6 ‘ We all know they do their own checks on the Royals , especially the young ones , and their circle of friends . ’
7 It will also provide a recreational facility for the people of Killyleagh and district , especially the young people .
8 The English Free Church Year Book of 1911 probably spoke for many communions when it said ‘ the truth is — and we must face its startling reality — the educated middle class , especially the young people , are losing touch altogether with the House of God ’ .
9 We all know textiles has had the grind for years and years and years and all our activity , all our activists , the shop stewards and the branch secretaries and conveners in that particular section , they need a lot of support , especially the young people .
10 Critics probably under-estimate the value of narrative illustration to the young reader , especially the young reader with limited mental picture-making ability .
11 Perhaps the young lady was confusing this church with another a little further up the hill , the Church of Ascensione a Chiara .
12 Perhaps the young man had something on his side after all .
13 Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated .
14 Neither of you knows personally the young man to whom you intend to entrust your , er … secret , and I feel it is my duty to caution you . ’
15 They wear well , too ( so the young mothers tell me ) since the children 's garments are for ever in the washing machine .
16 Swans flying down from Siberia to Britain travel in family parties so the young cygnets compile such maps as they follow their parents .
17 So the young maestro in intensive care may not have conducted a very effective Tristan or Beethoven Seventh ?
18 So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten .
19 But it is only the young man .
20 Only the young man 's intuitive fear of the heavy couple who had entered his shop , closed the door and locked it , and pushed him roughly into the back room , made him co-operate at all .
21 ‘ This Act will enslave you , ’ he heard Cameron saying , ‘ and not only the young men among you but every family with a son who is in his prime .
22 Too rigid a concern with what is ‘ relevant ’ to the lives of young people seems to us to pose the danger of impoverishing not only the young people , but the culture itself , which has to be revitalized by each generation .
23 more of them , not only the young people , of course not , but I mean more of them , I know there always were some of more than there was before it has changed every value , even moral values and everything like that , have changed a lot the last twenty to thirty years .
24 Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray .
25 A stone 's throw away the young reveller has the choice of Harvey 's or Humphrey 's to continue the night out .
26 Sycorax would push away the young woman and click drily in her mouth .
27 The UDC seems to be intent on creating inner city science parks and industrial estates , which would push even more people out of the city — already the young people are moving out , leaving the middle-aged and the elderly .
28 Already the young men in Harare have been coming to Arthur , knowing his record in Mount Darwin and sensing a kindred spirit ; and he offers them a better way than stone-throwing and kidnapping tactics .
29 Finally the young woman stated , ‘ I 'd be better off on Social Welfare ’ .
30 Meanwhile the young man was staring aggressively at me .
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