Example sentences of "[vb pp] at a [adj] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |
| 2 | So many good young dogs have been ruined at an early age by incompetent trainers . |
| 3 | If the deceased had led a reasonable life and had died at a good age without too much trouble , leaving a reasonably good family behind him , what was there to be miserable about ? |
| 4 | The only sheep around here are the sad bastards who walk around in Man Utd shirts ( particularly the fat bastard in Wakefield who has No.7 and Cantona stencilled on the back ) who were presumably sexually abused at a young age and hence feel the need to rebel — why not go the whole hog and dress up as a woman , you would nt look half as silly . |
| 5 | She faced her anger at being abandoned at an earlier age than anyone would have expected , and talked about loneliness . |
| 6 | Five years ago , schools were asked to develop their programme of personal relationships so that the right sort of foundations could be laid at an early age . |
| 7 | And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought . |
| 8 | Miller finds that patterns are almost always well defined at an early age , consist of between 20 and 25 distinct preferred activities , and are thereafter extremely difficult to change . |
| 9 | In the British version , which was directed at a younger age group ( 10–12 years ) with a lower smoking prevalence , the objective was to minimise or delay uptake . |
| 10 | Afflicted at an early age |
| 11 | Burrows also believes that smacking can be started at an early age . |
| 12 | These findings raise the possibility that the results with deep dyslexics , which appear to show a facilitating effect of highly imageable words on reading performance , might just as plausibly be attributed to the fact that such words tend to be learned at an early age in life . |
| 13 | These are learned at an early age and reflect the bias and background of our parents . |
| 14 | The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age . |
| 15 | They , like the GCSE and A level , are supposed to be taken at a particular age , at 7 , 11 , and 14 . |
| 16 | , Isaac ( d. 1699 ) , Hebrew scholar and bibliophile , was born in Spain and taken at an early age to Hamburg . |
| 17 | Speech patterns are formed at an early age and are firmly established — part of our way of life , an almost subconscious activity , rather in the same way as chewing or walking . |
| 18 | For instance a rite of lifelong commitment for adults or of young people on the verge of adult life who have been confirmed at an earlier age . |
| 19 | She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal . |
| 20 | This dog would clearly have been a dual champion had he not been killed at an early age , constituting a great loss to the Australian show scene . |
| 21 | Average height achieved at a given age is a sensitive measure of the nutritional status of a population . |
| 22 | If a man has a daughter she must be properly dressed , married at a reasonable age , taught to behave modestly in the presence of strangers . |
| 23 | In conclusion , our findings suggest that H pylori infection may have been predominantly acquired at a young age in the past . |
| 24 | Words with an early age of acquisition tend to be highly concrete ( imageable ) while words acquired at a later age tend to be abstract . |
| 25 | This is easier to learn and can be learnt at a young age . |
| 26 | For many people , particularly those brought up under the sway of the Judeo-Christian religions , physical control of emotional expression is learnt at an early age , and by adulthood can be practised to a high level of subtlety and skill . |