Example sentences of "as [art] young " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Young family regularly pits its wits against the Mastermind contenders with spectacular lack of success most Sundays , I was expected to do better than usual . |
| 2 | The fragrant sadness of Janis Kelly in Street Scene counterpointed by the ebullient jitterbugging of Catherine Zeta Jones and Philip Gould as the young lovers risking careless rupture . |
| 3 | The Lord Steward , Viscount Ridley , another Etonian , is married to the daughter of the Earl of Scarborough , who served as the young Queen 's first Lord Chamberlain . |
| 4 | Male weavers assist females as the young hatch and the extent of their help to successive mates may greatly promote each female 's reproductive success . |
| 5 | Leapor also satirizes the intellectual pretensions of a figure in Crumble Hall who can tentatively be identified as the young William Henry Chauncy who had recently gone up to Oxford : |
| 6 | As the young runner 's confidence grows in this way the coach 's job is to fuel the novice 's dreams by suggesting practical ways in which they can be achieved . |
| 7 | As the young secretary of the War Cabinet 's Manpower Requirements Committee , he had learned his craft from Bridges and Beveridge ; he was President of the Board of Trade and in the Cabinet at the age of thirty-one ; he had a sense of history , he was numerate and he knew all the tricks of political manipulation and presentation . |
| 8 | A few more meditative poems , however , achieved a lyrical power which disarmed most critics , and which helped some early readers , such as the young Thomas De Quincey , to see in the collection as a whole that ‘ ray of a new morning ’ which marked the beginning of English Romanticism . |
| 9 | By December 1982 , when Celtic lifted the League Cup for the first time since the mid-'70s , Nicholas had established himself as the young sensation of Scottish football . |
| 10 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 11 | Most significant of all was the feeling of panic as the young man repeatedly sank beneath the surface of the water and then rose again during his last moments . |
| 12 | Adam Goodley has star quality as the young innocent abroad , but even he has to bow to age and experience : Frank Lazarus as the seen-it-all piano player ( with a heart of gold , natch ! ) is wonderfully witty and quietly steals this entertaining and pleasing show . |
| 13 | Scottish Television want Maigret star Michael Gambon in the title role for their £1.2 million movie , with Ivan Kaye — Jewish TV detective Sam Saturday — as the young Maxwell . |
| 14 | ‘ Letty , ’ she said as the young girl bobbed in the doorway , ‘ ask Mrs Beynon to come in please . ’ |
| 15 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 16 | The cafés of the Zuid hum late into the night as the young and fashionable regard each other 's clothes and sip De Koninck , the chestnut-coloured local ale . |
| 17 | And the youngest was bathed first to the eldest and as the young one was bathed bed , upstairs to bed , upstairs to bed , you see and so it went on . |
| 18 | " Let's have him out , " I gasped , and as the young man pulled on the forelegs I supported the body , which slid and toppled on to the tarmac with a horrible limpness . |
| 19 | Luv L U V , or L A V as the young lady over here says . |
| 20 | The father can only go on to know God more profoundly and as the young man men become stronger , they are more aware of the indwelling spirit of power to overcome the tempter . |
| 21 | He looked at Nigel Steen and saw the glint of tears in his eyes as the young man rushed out of the door . |
| 22 | As the young Emperor he had rebuilt the Red Fort in Agra in a new architectural style that he had himself helped to develop . |
| 23 | Even if she said so herself , she was barely recognisable as the young woman who 'd been so distraught just a short while ago . |
| 24 | As the young economies in these countries grow it is important that life assurance and pensions services develop from solid actuarial foundations . |
| 25 | And there was n't a chip or sausage in sight as the young diners tucked into cuisine a la France et Italia . |
| 26 | Purugganan was believed to be a member of a newer , more hardline underground group , known as the Young Officers Union ( YOU ) . |
| 27 | Crawford 's role as the young Etonian son of a Middle Eastern Prime Minister gave him a solo , sung to his schoolgirl love from his prison cell , that included the unforgettable line , ‘ Daphne , stop munching and spare me a thought . ’ |
| 28 | As the young man perched on the edge of the sofa , she took the bull by the horns . |
| 29 | The association will then appoint a selection committee , usually comprising representatives from its different branches and associated groups such as the Young Conservatives . |
| 30 | ‘ Hey you know man , what happens to us men if we do exercises with just shorts on , ’ he grins , then proceeds to explain in detail as the young female press officer from GMTV squirms with embarrassment . |