Example sentences of "in [pron] formative " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think that could happen to me now , in the way that it did in my formative years . |
| 2 | In my formative years , Sam was my idol . |
| 3 | Many are putting their health at risk in their formative years , Dr Andrew Hill , a chartered psychologist at the Academic Unit of Psychiatry , Leeds University , says in a study of nearly 400 nine-year-olds . |
| 4 | The logic of early education is that if mentally handicapped children are given stimulation in their formative years , almost from the moment of birth , difficult behavioural problems can be avoided , and considerable academic advancements can be made . |
| 5 | Members of groups , especially those in their formative years , find themselves thrown into unnaturally close contact with one another , squashed together in the backs of uncomfortable vans night after night , obliged to eat , live and even sleep together for much of their time . |
| 6 | No-one except those who are wilfully blind to the nature of our proceedings can possibly spell out of the Bill any condonation whatever of homosexual conduct which can affect young people in their formative years . |
| 7 | This reflects the influence of cultural and social factors as it was totally unacceptable for women to smoke when these women were in their formative years in the interwar period . |
| 8 | At times he feels that the most he can hope for is to identify some fissures in the accumulating mass of proposals in their formative stages into which he can try to insert something of his own political values . |
| 9 | It must have been a considerable advantage when faced with the numerous moves the children had to make in their formative years . |
| 10 | How many smokers who were hooked when 12 , 13 , or 14 , in their formative years , are grateful for having been subjected to the wiles of the tobacco and advertising industries ? |
| 11 | As one analyst puts it , " Some of the Labour loyalty induced in their formative years will have lasted until today . " |
| 12 | When Hannah was young and in her formative years , this dichotomy was even more pronounced . |
| 13 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , Wollen presents a lucid account of the movement in its formative period and makes an interesting case for André Breton as a figure of some distinction in French intellectual history . |
| 15 | The philosophy or , perhaps more accurately , the frame of thinking which will guide governments and international institutions in the 1990s and beyond is still in its formative stages . |
| 16 | Founded in 1982 , Compaq ran itself from the start as ‘ a major company in its formative stage ’ , not just ‘ a small company with big plans ’ . |
| 17 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 18 | According to Bottomore ( 1979 ) the major themes of political sociology in its formative period in the first half of the nineteenth century were inspired by the beginnings of democracy as a form of government and the development of classes on the basis of industrial capitalism . |
| 19 | Even this brief analysis of Darwin 's biological theorizing in these early years suggests the following conclusions about the nature of his science in its formative phase . |
| 20 | The understanding of recovery as a processes is still in its formative years . |
| 21 | The pre-eminent themes of political sociology in its formative period during the first half of the nineteenth century were the social consequences of the emergence of democracy as a form of government and the political significance of the development of social classes on the basis of industrial capitalism . |
| 22 | Like the labour movement in its formative period — like Chartism , or the early trade unions , or the utopian communities — the social movements of the 1960s were movements of liberation seeking an adequate doctrine and mode of political action to combat the most oppressive features of the societies in which they developed ; thus they directed their activities variously against colonial rule , domination by external economic powers , the rule of feudal-military elites , ethnic subordination , the subjection of women , or the domination of society by a rigid , centralized and bureaucratic apparatus . |
| 23 | It has also been depicted in its formative period of development as the site of bitter industrial strife . |
| 24 | Thus the priests were known in Hebrew as the Kohanim — the Cohens — and it is this name ( which Leonard later signified in his poetry by references to his ‘ blood ’ ) , which exerted most influence on Leonard , primarily in his formative years , but throughout his career — consciously and otherwise . |
| 25 | Indeed , in his formative years he was influenced as much by Santana , Joni Mitchell , Todd Rundgren and Hendrix , as he was by Sly Stone , George Clinton or Earth , Wind and Fire . |
| 26 | He has scented higher things — England ‘ B ’ v Pakistan and 12th man for the real McCoy against India , both in 1982 , his first full season — and if the aroma has never led to mouthfuls of fame ( due in part to a perceived shortage of confidence against high pace in his formative years ) he has been a staunch servant through thick and thin . |
| 27 | Kim obtained experience in his formative years in cooperating with the Chinese and with the Russians ; it is relevant to note he had no experience of working with the communists in Korea . |
| 28 | Already the various structural elements in Nizan 's psychology are becoming apparent : a brooding sense of death nurtured in his formative months and years as an infant and as a child ; a childhood admiration for the values and life-style of his father , a man exuding certainty , conviction and power , a man involved in the practical problems of everyday existence ; a corresponding indifference for the seemingly hollow existence of his mother preoccupied with family duties , social functions and religious rites ; an implicit recognition that the path to be followed was to be located somewhere in the dynamic working-class origins of his father rather than in the passive middle-class origins of his mother ; a sense of loneliness as a child compensated by a deeply experienced relationship with his father , an idol , the source of knowledge and truth . |
| 29 | You can not deny a priori that he had some sort of sincere ideological outlook in his formative years . |
| 30 | Emily went pink , reflecting that if she 'd had charge of this youth in his formative years , things might have been different . |