Example sentences of "[adj] young [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sad to say , I had learnt to be suspicious of good-looking young men who for no particular reason seemed to take a sudden interest in me . |
| 2 | But it was true that she liked to have good-looking young men around her , and the Earl of Essex was her favourite . |
| 3 | ‘ She rather likes good-looking young men , ’ said Mervyn rather spitefully , turning to John . |
| 4 | The following evening he went to a different wine bar and bought drinks for two different young women . |
| 5 | We saw probably a total of 24 different young men from a professional model agency . |
| 6 | The drug was eventually withdrawn but there are about 300 young adults alive today who were affected . |
| 7 | Some 300 young men are waiting in the parliament to be killed . |
| 8 | At the plenum two young cadres , Roberto Robaina González , the popular Young Communists leader , and Carlos Lage Dávila , the Machine Industry Minister and a former member of President Fidel Castro 's personal staff , were elected as alternate ( non-voting ) members of the politburo . |
| 9 | Indeed , there were only nine men aged under 30 and these included a group of four aircraftsmen appearing on a court martial accused of assaulting some young cadets at a summer camp . |
| 10 | Of course , some young fathers are fascinated by their babies and enjoy cohabiting co-operatively , finding more " meaning in being fathers than their own fathers did . |
| 11 | A vice-principal of a teachers ' university probably spoke on behalf of many party members in positions of responsibility when he said that some young comrades lacked the ‘ backbone of Marxism-Leninism ’ , especially those studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 12 | There is a relentless derision of Mr Kinnock among some young apparatchiks and if that reflects voices higher up it adds to the sense that , like bad generals , the Tories may be underestimating the enemy , as dangerous to them as hubris for Labour . |
| 13 | Well again you see , I , I , with us keeping our own pigs which we always did , we were always better off than anybody else and er we er , we , you see when we kept these pigs , we used to either buy or , or breed some young ones see . |
| 14 | Now Jean was pleased because I do sequence dancing which I learnt with my husband , and so now this coming September when we start back again , once a month I 'm going to teach some sequence dancing in the hope that some young ones would , will hear of it and , and join because then once you can sort of get them involved with one thing you may sort of get good numbers . |
| 15 | And we used to hear somebody saying there was a vixen there and some and some young ones . |
| 16 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 17 | Mr Blair took the lead , claiming : ‘ Some young offenders are so out of control and such menaces to society that they are going to have to be put in some form of secure accommodation . ’ |
| 18 | Lately Mr Kaifu has been under pressure to hand out minor cabinet posts to some young stars within the party who had been tainted by the Recruit affair . |
| 19 | This is not to deny that some young mothers do have short-term relationships and one-night stands , but the ones that get " caught " are more often those who are in love and in a steady relationship . |
| 20 | It is tempting to push the blame , as some young mothers do , on their own mothers for not telling them about sex and contraception . |
| 21 | This can be a disconcerting and distressing experience , and some young mothers are not confident enough to ask to see their babies and may end up feeling as though they have not really had one . |
| 22 | Some Conservative MPs began to attend fascist meetings and , as already suggested , there were some young Conservatives who supported fascism that developed in relatively middle-class towns such as Harrogate . |
| 23 | Clothes can be costumes , and for some young women , walking down the street with bleached hair or a biker 's leather jacket says more about them than a thousand words . |
| 24 | I know some young women rightly feel that they came out as a result of their own strength — and of course many of them do come out without any youth work involvement . |
| 25 | Some young women are too embarrassed to ask their doctors and afraid of being refused , especially if they are under age . |
| 26 | The political strategy of ‘ semiotic play ’ evident in the work of some young women artists , operates to ‘ destabilise ’ the hierarchies of gender in which we live . |
| 27 | ‘ Some young women might find the life we live here unexciting . |
| 28 | But I quite agree with you , that some young women have ties that stop them doing exactly what they wish — until it 's too late , in many cases . ’ |
| 29 | in Barbados and er some young chaps had saw me lying on the beach and er they stole my bag and they stuck a gun in my face and freeze lady , you do n't do any thing , you just let them take what they want and its a horrible feeling when your there , we were there for three weeks and it just totally spoiled the holiday but the ramifications of it do n't just stop once you got on the plane home , it was very frightening |
| 30 | Chapters 4 and 5 demonstrate that the linguistic repertoire of many young black Londoners and some young whites can be analysed in terms of two main varieties , Creole/ " Patois " on the one hand and " ordinary " English on the other . |