Example sentences of "[v-ing] young [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up . |
| 2 | Avoid accidents with the strimmer by protecting young trees with plastic tubes or weed by hand . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course this is a truly shocking affair , ’ Wheeler continued in a tone proper for instructing young ordinands in the correct way to deal with the conventional tragedies of life . |
| 4 | Curtain up on the 40th Oxford Gang Show , an annual event which means months of frantic organisation and jolly hard team work for those taking part ; a ritual of devotion from backstage helpers and an early taste of stagefright for aspiring young performers . |
| 5 | As a further reason for renewing the Act he stated that " certain political parties " were training young Zimbabweans outside the country , with the aim of having them return to commit destabilizing acts . |
| 6 | The government of C. R. ( later Earl ) Attlee accepted the recommendations ; Turner 's second decade as director was devoted primarily to implementing them , recruiting and training young scholars , including many whose interest had been aroused during war service in Asia or Africa , and building up strong academic departments . |
| 7 | Presently much of its grant will be directed to the MLTB as the country 's major influence in what goes on in mountain training , for a sizeable portion of the BMC 's grant income is awarded because of its past role in training young climbers and mountaineers . |
| 8 | Never more than competent as a draughtsman himself , Kempe was adept at selecting and training young designers and craftsmen to carry out schemes under his direction . |
| 9 | Until Wednesday , the worst manifestation of that was warning young Members that they would not get promoted if they did not do what they were told . |
| 10 | An attitude-training programme for those serving young readers would be expected to cover the following : |
| 11 | Further along , a pool of bilious gas pricked by glittering young luminaries . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be foolish to sell now , ’ said Syl judiciously , and I thought that apart from wanting young girls he wanted to inherit another big house , and I wondered how on earth I could be going to marry someone whom I detested so much . |
| 13 | On the top of the rockface before him stood two practical looking young women in their early twenties . |
| 14 | The Foundation is now dedicated to sheltering young girls from broken homes . |
| 15 | ‘ Or robbing young children who are going shopping for their mothers ? |
| 16 | B. Farmers in the valleys and on the edges of Dartmoor and Exmoor concentrate more on rearing young cattle , sheep and lambs , which graze on the rough moorland pasture . |
| 17 | But even so , many farmers choose to keep small herds of dairy cows , for milk and for rearing young cattle . |
| 18 | Famous for touring exciting work by some of the country 's leading young writers and translators , Red Shift returns to its equally successful territory of in-house production . |
| 19 | As one of the country 's leading young musicians , Sharon Shannon 's star has assumed an upward orbit in recent times , initially as a member of Arcady , and later as part of the Waterboys line-up . |
| 20 | Or had he had a predilection for liking young ladies ? |
| 21 | Thus , I spent ten years working for Other Music Papers , never daring to aim for The Big One , editing Record Mirror and blooding young pups like Stuart Bailie and Roger Morton for greater things . |
| 22 | Bush Vark 's First Day Out by Charles Fuge ( MacMillan , £6.95 ) Winner of The Mother Goose Award and the MacMillan Prize 1988 Three pairs of creaturely eyes stare out from the deep black inside covers of Bush Vark 's First Day Out , whetting young appetites for nocturnal mystery and the pleasurable horrors encountered by Charles Fuge 's cheery little vark , with his slippery passivity and plain good fortune . |
| 23 | In the pre-Gockley era , the HGO never attained the glamour of its sister companies in Dallas and San Antonio ; it was best known for presenting young stars on the rise ( Plácido Domingo was a regular in the 1960s ) and legendary performers at the end of their careers ( Inge Borkh and Richard Tucker , among others ) , in very traditional productions of the core repertory ) . |
| 24 | By interviewing young children , and asking them to explain story characters ' actions , the project aims to investigate changes in children 's psychological explanations of action . |
| 25 | Alison Cleland , a development worker with the Children 's Rights Development Unit , said that existing legislation had been shown to be completely ineffective in safeguarding young workers ' welfare . |
| 26 | Where it studies young and old subjects , it commonly implies their inferior status by investigating young subjects ' development towards adult thinking and feeling , and old subjects ' loss of these faculties . |
| 27 | WHERE HAVE ALL THE BEAUTIFUL , caring young women got to ? |
| 28 | This time she would have to get past one of Australia 's toughest talent spotters , a woman with a reputation for making or breaking young stars . |
| 29 | The play , written by Marie Jones , examines the problems and pressures facing young teenagers today . |
| 30 | Such families have been well placed to secure the best contacts and the best education , and rising young stars have often married into them , so social prestige and heredity have continued to count for a considerable amount . |