Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] young [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It often happens that young children find it enormously difficult to ‘ surrender power ’ . |
| 2 | The report confirms that younger academics appointed under the UGC 's ‘ new blood ’ scheme do better than average in obtaining research funds . |
| 3 | The implications are depressingly apparent in a study by Roberta Steinbacher and Helen B. Holmes which shows that young North American men and women who consider themselves sensitive to female inequality , would still choose to have male babies , at least as a first choice if sex-predetermination or sex determination with IVF would allow prospective parents in Western countries the opportunity to choose a preferred sex without the stigma that would be attached to using selective abortion . |
| 4 | More than 9000 children were seriously injured last year and research shows that young children do not understand the dangers of traffic , or how to avoid them . |
| 5 | It seems that young women fear having the terms applied to them ( by men and also by one another ) , and they police their self-presentation and sexual behaviour to avoid being labelled slags . |
| 6 | Cowley climbed into the back of the car , then leaned out the window to add , ‘ It seems that young Mayli has already located Colonel Lin Foh 's new hotel . |
| 7 | It continued at Mr John Eames 's Moorfields Dissenting Academy in London , but it seems that young Howard did not take readily to formal learning and to the end of his life he remained only indifferently literate . |
| 8 | It seems that young heterosexuals still think the disease is something that happens to others . |
| 9 | It seems that younger people are likely to have more contact with the community ( to go on exchanges , visits etc. ) and have more use of the language ( at school , with peers of the second language community ) . |
| 10 | Stedman hopes that young players such as Simon Robson , Richard Norman , Bob Brown and Brian Ray will claim regular first-team places . |
| 11 | If the child has the capacity to make an informed decision , the solicitor should not divulge the information without his consent unless he knows or suspects that younger children are being abused or the child is in fear of his life or serious injury . |
| 12 | Data from the YPLL project indicates that young men and young women use and view friendships in quite different ways . |
| 13 | Empirical research indicates that young people perceive non-drinkers lacking in these qualities . |
| 14 | However , despite the generally positive reception given to the growth of community alternatives , concern has been expressed that the decline in residential provision means that young people with the most serious problems do not always receive appropriate help ( Hekken et al . , |
| 15 | Taken altogether , this means that young people in the 1980s have to live on incomes much lower than their predecessors . |
| 16 | It means that young people , instead of staying in their home town or village , have to stay with their friends or relatives or move to bigger places like Newcastle or Gateshead and that means more people on the waiting list . ’ |
| 17 | PLAYING rugby league can be addictive , according to Martyn Sadler , the chairman of the students ' association , who reports that young people introduced to the game at university or college are no longer necessarily lost after graduation , writes Paul Wilson . |
| 18 | He argues that young gelada males , living in all-male groups , suffer from sexual deprivation . |
| 19 | Basing his analysis on a combination of Freud and genetics , Badcock argues that young people forming oppositional , ‘ alternative ’ cultures are , in fact , resisting the oppressive emotional investment of their parents . |
| 20 | In particular , Margaret Donaldson ( 1978 ) argues that young children 's cognitive and linguistic abilities are at their best in tasks involving intentions , motives or purposes , since such tasks make ‘ human sense ’ . |
| 21 | She argues that young children 's cognitive and linguistic abilities can be seen at their best in situations involving intentions , motives , or purposes — situations which make human sense . |
| 22 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 23 | The average age of spectators at Frankfurt Galaxy matches was 24 and the NFL obviously believes that young people here will show the same enthusiasm for American sport that they do for fast food , clothes and records . |
| 24 | In particular , Piaget claims that young children tend to give psychological explanations — known as psychologizing — for physical and logical phenomena , such as : 6 Half nine is not four , because he ca n't count . |
| 25 | Observation suggests that young people are most at ease and most open with adults who treat them ‘ casually ’ and as equals , who do not indulge them , act in a condescending way , or look upon them as something ‘ special ’ . |
| 26 | A recent small-scale study undertaken at the University of Sheffield suggests that young people in private schools reveal distinctive processes of occupational , political and socio-economic socialisation . |
| 27 | Also Bosanquet has argued vigorously for over a decade — and has not been alone — that this suggests that younger age cohorts are growing up fitter and will not necessarily need such varied and prolonged care in the future . |
| 28 | Sainsbury knows that young people planning their careers rarely put working in a supermarket at the top of their list . |