Example sentences of "[pron] young [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's all right , only one of my young people , ’ Fagin said to him . |
2 | They also require regular long-term financial support in the form of pensions , which younger people do not receive unless they are chronically disabled or unemployed . |
3 | First , a number of historical studies have shown that the nuclear family was common before the industrial revolution , if only because people did not live long enough for older relatives to live near or with their younger kin . |
4 | From studies of these countries , there appears to be an unwillingness of the elderly to seek assistance from their younger kin , although paradoxically the young report that they are more willing to give help than the elderly are willing to seek it . |
5 | It was expected from her young people , by which she really meant her customers . |
6 | After all , her young people all came from good families . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | There 's a bitterness in the way in which young people are despised . |
9 | 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 ) . |
10 | In terms of values , education is the way in which young people experience socialisation . |
11 | … 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 |
12 | The circumstances in which young people grow up have altered drastically in the past few decades . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | The rating on which young people do so badly is derived only from that fraction of employers who say they are different . |
18 | 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 ! |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | How well qualified are employers to evaluate education , or the extent to which young people differ from their elders ? |
23 | The summary document or record which young people take with them when leaving school or college will need to include two main components : |
24 | For a study of clients ' perspectives with fairly limited time and money , group interviews can be very productive , as in the National Children 's Bureau 's ‘ Who Cares ? ’ study ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) in which young people in care spoke at length about their experiences . |
25 | Sharing a home with relatives ( other than parents ) before marriage is another phenomenon which was more common in the past than in the present ( Anderson , 1971 ; 1980 ) Very little is known about circumstances under which young people now may go to live with a non-parental relative , although Gill Jones ( 1987 ) has shown that it still happens for a substantial number , especially those designated as working class on occupational criteria . |
26 | However , we know very little in a systematic way about the circumstances under which this is considered a desirable option , or the terms under which young people live in a relative 's household . |
27 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
28 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
29 | Hollands ( 1990 ) illustrates the way in which young people themselves challenge aspects of the training programmes : |
30 | In exploring the ways in which young people are guided into employment , Bates recognises that . |