Example sentences of "a young [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MDC noted that a Younger Chemists ' reception would be held during the 1992 annual congress and that Ciba-Geigy had agreed to provide sponsorship . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're holding it wrong , ’ a younger woman 's voice said . |
| 3 | They had an old people 's day room and a young mothers ' club and a crèche and all kinds of projects for youngsters . |
| 4 | Some compensation for these flops was provided by Carol Reed 's The Fallen Idol ( 1947 ) , an adaptation of Graham Green 's short story about a young boy 's loss of innocence , and Anthony Asquith 's The Winslow Boy ( 1948 ) , an adapted stage-play about the struggles of a naval cadet 's father to prove his son 's innocence of theft . |
| 5 | Today 's reading comes from Skulker Wheat , a collection of short stories by John Griffin which tell about a young boy 's working-class childhood . |
| 6 | A woman seeks the truth of her ancestry , and discovers truth can be what you want it to be ; in a hospital a neglected old man weaves fables in a lost language ; fantasy becomes reality when a young boy 's sense of wonder is awakened by the first man in space ; a man 's obsession with ‘ the dogs ’ has grim but farcical consequences ; a couple 's holiday in France is disturbed by the ghosts of war ; a chance encounter brings an unexpected delight to a birdwatcher . |
| 7 | ‘ Sounds like a young boy 's adolescent dream to me , ’ Wendell said as his daughter fell silent . |
| 8 | In the past , when his thoughts had turned to it as a young boy 's thoughts will , his body had n't followed his mind . |
| 9 | His eyes were bright and mischievous , like those of a young boy 's . |
| 10 | Afterwards , Louis 's widowed mother , Catherine Innes , 43 , said : ‘ For taking a young boy 's life , 18 months is not enough . |
| 11 | It came from where memory is young and the power in a young eagle 's flight is great and can never fade . |
| 12 | He pointed out that a young officer 's life had been tragically taken while doing his duty , protecting others . |
| 13 | Comus is a masque in which a young lady 's chastity is tried and not vanquished . |
| 14 | A young farmer 's wife having her first batch of butter er rejected . |
| 15 | So when you remove a young child 's hand from an electric plug you tap the back of it and accompany this action with a firm NO . |
| 16 | ( It is interesting that Piaget failed to recognise what Vygotsky ( 1933 , tr. 1976 ) observed about a young child 's play : that it is rule-bound . ) |
| 17 | This time there was evidence of occupation — the thin , reed-like sound of a young child 's voice and the discernibly laboured breathing of a man in deep slumber . |
| 18 | Although school has an important part to play in a young child 's total development , the tensions of life beyond the classroom are likely to be the ones which determine educational failure or educational success . |
| 19 | In the first place , the ‘ making sense ’ that is the foundation of a young child 's acquisition of speech can operate because the language is met in , and relates directly to , experiences in which the child is immersed . |
| 20 | The day glows phosphorescently ; snow is coming down in chunks the size of a young child 's hand . |
| 21 | A young child 's skin is considerably thinner than that of an adult , allowing greater penetration of UV rays and increasing risks of long-term damage . |
| 22 | For instance , a young child 's capacity to read is improved because a parent or a playgroup or a nursery class gives a good start . |
| 23 | When skiing first became something akin to a mass-tourism business , it was a young person 's holiday . |
| 24 | Part of the essence of rock'n'roll is a young person 's thoughtful dismantling of archaic values , a completely natural function and yet , superficially a blindly rebellious one . |
| 25 | You can not raise a young person 's self esteem or prevent the spread of HIV this way ’ . |
| 26 | If a grown-up really wants to find out what it is like to live in a young person 's world , let him or her get down on hands and knees and go about like that for a week . |
| 27 | Evidence of a young person 's success in Compact terms , is evidence of conscientiousness , punctuality and reliability , and of the acquisition of basic skills . |
| 28 | That is not so much a sign that molecular biology is a young person 's game , but rather a proof of how great a magnet for young people 's enthusiasm the structure of DNA has proved to be . |
| 29 | Even more valuable has been the friendship and help she found while attending a young women 's support group . |
| 30 | A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England . |