Example sentences of "the very young " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , as I mentioned above , there is plenty of evidence from research with the very young infants that their input systems allow them to make appearancereality distinctions ( for example , apparent versus real shape ) at so young an age that the possibility that they have to rely upon records of their actions to do this is just not worth considering . |
| 2 | For the very young pop acts , there are very large numbers of teens and schoolchildren writing to them . |
| 3 | Its undemanding vocabulary and flat rhythms seem suited to the very young , for whom it is unnecessarily long , yet a five year old , who would still delight in the pictures , would be disappointed by its lack of wit and thin story . |
| 4 | New and simple techniques of rehydration make most deaths — except of the very young and old — preventable . |
| 5 | How can we , wanting to help look after bereaved people , be particularly aware of the needs of the very elderly or the very young , when they are coping with the impact of death and grieving on their lives . |
| 6 | The best forms of oats to feed horses , especially the very young or old , are possibly ‘ steamed and rolled ’ or ‘ bruised ’ oats . |
| 7 | HCI cares about the very young too . |
| 8 | The problem of maintaining nutritional standards in general is of less concern in the United Kingdom than in developing countries , where malnutrition can result in mental handicap ; this can extend beyond birth and affect the very young children . |
| 9 | In addition , people are influenced by their own preconceptions , which will have evolved , in all but the very young , in far less enlightened times . |
| 10 | Part of the fascination of the old for the very young could be the sense of contact with a long-past world , half haunted . |
| 11 | In places of special risk , such as hospital kitchens serving meals to the very old , the very young , or immuno-suppressive patients or the factory producing large quantities of cooked cold meats , disinfection may need to be more frequent . |
| 12 | And — who was Lord Fiske of the Decimal Currency Board ( ah , glorious corporatist Labour party designation , The Decimal Currency Board ) and why did he say that ‘ All was going well ’ when nobody except the very young or very bright could understand a thing ? |
| 13 | For our younger visitors we offer ’ Junior Diner ’ portions of selected dishes and for the very young , our famous totally additive free Mr. Men Meals are also available . |
| 14 | Controlling body temperature : problems of the elderly and the very young . |
| 15 | Moreover , she goes on , these problems are accentuated by the complexities of modern surgery and the large number of high-risk patients being admitted for hitherto inoperable conditions , particularly the very young , the elderly debilitated patient , diabetic , cancer and transplant patients , the severely injured , the burned and those undergoing surgery . |
| 16 | Of course this can start in the very young , though it is much more rare . |
| 17 | The very young can stop feeding and rapidly become very ill . |
| 18 | There were no classes in child welfare for the very young mothers , and many had been fed on milk from dirty Nestles milk tins . |
| 19 | Here , you will be able to follow Sooty 's rise to super-stardom through the sets , props , scripts , photos and films which have enthralled the very young and the very old ! for 40 years . |
| 20 | If the very young , and sometimes the educationally very backward , are taught , or perhaps more accurately indoctrinated , with the idea that there is a ‘ god ’ who approves the teaching , who is caring for them , and who will provide for their needs , they will believe this , even when a state of intense deprivation confutes this every day of their lives . |
| 21 | A major requirement of a religion then , must be that , above all , it shall be capable of a simplified , but undistorted interpretation capable of being taught to the very young in such a way that it will instil in them the stirrings of what will become their consciences , that is , they will harbour a subconscious awareness of the fundamental nature of right and wrong as these are applied to those areas of human aspirations where they are beyond dispute . |
| 22 | The ‘ joie de vivre ’ then , observable in the very young , could well be the logical outcome of the satisfying of the initial unit of ‘ desire ’ . |
| 23 | The expedient of the withholding of manifestations of love from the very young child amounts to the instilling of the first tiny measure of fear , and fear , used in conjunction with reward provides the fundamental tools which the adult population must have if it is to maintain steady progress towards the civilisation it desires . |
| 24 | Another distinct group among the long-term unemployed are the very young , many of whom have never had a chance to prove themselves in a job . |
| 25 | They might be sorted according to any combination of these , such as things which are ‘ green and made of metal ’ , but such sophisticated sorting is seldom within the range of the very young child . |
| 26 | It is not obvious to the very young child that a set of objects has the same number of units however those units are arranged ( provided , of , that none are removed or added ) . |
| 27 | For one inclusive price you can enjoy the thrills of the Astroglide ( a six-lane slide that 's as tall as a house ) , roller-coaster , Western train ride , adventure play area plus roundabouts specially for the very young . |
| 28 | From the very young to the very old , the May weekend is something special for the villagers of Gawthorpe . |
| 29 | Indeed in a ‘ traffic vulnerable ’ category we would have to include the very young and very old , so that it could comprise 30–50 per cent of population depending on age definitions . |
| 30 | For all the rise in the number of births , and despite some medical advances , potential causes of a premature death were lurking around every corner , or sweeping the country in periodic epidemics ; especially vulnerable were the very young , the old and the infirm . |