Example sentences of "which young [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the men who wished to keep the age of consent at 12 and 13 accepted as a matter of course an outlook in which young girls from the working class were perceived to be easy sexual targets . |
| 2 | Many see these monsters as father figures which young boys , obsessed with dear old mother , want to take on and usurp . |
| 3 | Roy Colvin and lady captain , Joan Gough , both attended the end-of-term prize-giving at which young Coulter , an A-level student at Wallace High , paid special tribute to Alan McMaster , juvenile convenor , and that livewire duo of Watson-MacDonald incorporated . |
| 4 | The records will be invaluable in determining the times of the year at which young moles leave their mothers ' territories in different parts of the British Isles . |
| 5 | Indeed , this sexual labelling had less to do with actual sexual practices than with the extent to which young women 's behaviour conformed to the popular ideas of ‘ femininity ’ — for instance by the use of swear words or loud behaviour , ( this is more fully discussed in Sue Lees , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | The teenage years cover a period in which young women and men mature physically , intellectually and emotionally . |
| 7 | Confiding in a friend when unhappy or worried tended to be something which young women rather than young men were inclined to do . |
| 8 | In responding to children 's writing , teachers are well able to distinguish between an embryonic attempt at a story and a more developed example ; indeed , there is substantial research available on the stages of story-writing through which young writers progress . |
| 9 | One profitable approach , arising out of the close contacts which the Survey maintains with universities , is in its readiness to host conferences and seminars relating to particular major research fronts , during the course of which young researchers , who have not yet completed Ph Ds , can meet and discuss problems with senior geologists from the Survey , and from other universities . |
| 10 | The Shah 's Literacy Corps , under which young army conscripts spent their national service as teachers in poor village , threatened their monopoly of the mullahs as teachers . |
| 11 | And , a definition of the excellent guest , one who keeps promises given during the hospitality : as well as giving the lad his own Sallust , Johnson promised to create the introductions by which young MacAulay could enter university , and he kept his word , although the boy eventually chose not to avail himself of it . |
| 12 | Experiments in which young salmon have been transferred from their stream of birth , to be released in another stream , have been used as evidence that salmon imprint on the smell of their river during a sensitive period just before they migrate downstream . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope so , ’ said Agnes , without expressing the large doubt in her mind , knowing the kind of family from which young Bobbie Wilmore came . |
| 14 | Also the multi-talented winger/disco dancer Lee Sharpe ( Sharp with an ‘ E ’ — quite appropriate really ) who has now overcome the mystery illness , lately diagnosed as viral meningitis , and presumably contracted at one of the many ‘ raves ’ which young Lee ( with two ‘ E's ) likes to attend . |
| 15 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 16 | There 's a bitterness in the way in which young people are despised . |
| 17 | The equivalent questions for eighteen year olds ask about specific skills which young people have been shown to need ( and often to lack ) when they leave local authority accommodation to live independently ( Stein and Carey , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | In terms of values , education is the way in which young people experience socialisation . |
| 19 | … she always chose to spend her leisure Hours in Writing and Reading , rather than in those Diversions which young People generally chuse ; insomuch that some of the Neighbours that observ 'd it , expressed their Concern , lest the Girl should over-study herself , and be mopish |
| 20 | The circumstances in which young people grow up have altered drastically in the past few decades . |
| 21 | In April 1990 the Prince of Wales launched his ‘ Volunteers ’ scheme , under which young people would have opportunities to contribute to the public welfare and learn the value of participation and the feeling of belonging to the community through voluntary work . |
| 22 | The vocational training in engineering and technological skills which young people receive in West Germany is more thorough , better organised and of a higher standard , the young people receive in this country . |
| 23 | Instead , it 's Ready , Steady , Go , the last show in which young people had fun on TV , that still defines conventional wisdom about pop shows . |
| 24 | AMNESTY International is organising its second national children 's art competition in the autumn , in which young people will be asked to make their own Postcards For Freedom . |
| 25 | The rating on which young people do so badly is derived only from that fraction of employers who say they are different . |
| 26 | Ironically , the attribute on which young people do best relative to older workers is specific educational qualifications which actually comes bottom of the employers ' list of essential attributes , being mentioned by only 2 per cent of employers ! |
| 27 | As the examination of the Holland Report data indicates , the problem which young people have in the labour market reflects the age-related issue of lack of experience . |
| 28 | Youth cultures were also the means by which young people made sense of their situation , for they represented symbolically the struggles , anxieties and aspirations of the parent culture — that is , the culture of their class . |
| 29 | He argued that the kinds of jobs which young people eventually did were determined not so much by the development of their inner drives , as by the structure of opportunities by which they were surrounded — the kinds of jobs which were available for them to do in the labour market . |
| 30 | How well qualified are employers to evaluate education , or the extent to which young people differ from their elders ? |