Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [that] young [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met that young man Billy Sullivan in the park the other day , ’ Annie said casually , wanting to glean some information about him . |
| 2 | Might I suggest that young George should use his opportunity to put his expensive university education towards a greater purpose than the expansion of his wallet . |
| 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 | These results confirm previous findings which indicate that young children have a good understanding of the concept of intention , and are able to reason about intentions and results simultaneously . |
| 5 | This is consistent with the findings which indicate that young people tend to adjust relatively easily to working life and that the less academic tend to do so more than others . |
| 6 | He had read an article on Mills and Boon books , which said that young girls liked the distinguished professional older man . |
| 7 | Mrs Coates came up with the idea when she realised that young people were finding their way into adult bars or congregating in the streets . |
| 8 | About two thirds of the men but less than half of the women answered " yes " to the question , " Do you think that young men should have some sexual experience before marriage ? " — a slightly larger figure than that of those claiming such experience — while a quarter of the men and half of the women replied , " no " . |
| 9 | ‘ Rachel — are you seeing that young playboy Radcliffe again ? ’ |
| 10 | It would be a foolhardy author who assumed that Young Reader automatically meant Uninformed Reader . |
| 11 | Because of her sympathy with the child 's point of view , and her belief that young children are frequently underestimated , Donaldson is sometimes associated with those educationalists who are opposed to formal education and who maintain that young children will learn all they need to know in informal contexts outside of school . |
| 12 | Excuse me are you saying that Young Guns is not suitable for people under eighteen ? |
| 13 | The next step in rank for a man of Ross 's experience would be fifth mate , but Lord Findlater , who insisted that young Ross had been ‘ much commended ’ , attempted to secure a fourth mate 's place for his friend . |
| 14 | The discussion which follows in the Report for young people in general is based mainly on a rating which is established by subtracting the number of employers who think that young people are worse than older workers from those who think that they are better on each of these attributes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | From this question we discovered that young men are more likely to regard being like their friends in behaviour and appearance and physical attributes as important , whereas young women are more likely to value qualities in the personality of their friends , like honesty , cheerfulness and so on . |
| 18 | We believe that young people should be free to choose between college , work-based training and sixth form studies . |
| 19 | Student leaders say they fear that young people could be brainwashed by the organisation . |
| 20 | They found that young mothers seemed to give health visitors a more idealized version of how they treated their babies than the account they gave to Elizabeth Newson , who was not seen to have any authority over them . |
| 21 | In my own study it seemed that young women are becoming more critical of ‘ traditional ’ gender roles , but young men are not . |
| 22 | Mr Allan admitted keeping houses secure was a problem and said it seemed that young children were to blame for most of the damage and fires in the street . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It seems that young heterosexuals still think the disease is something that happens to others . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | He argues that young gelada males , living in all-male groups , suffer from sexual deprivation . |