Example sentences of "[vb base] to young " in BNC.

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1 One danger with this emphasis on the language of adults is that it easily leads to the conclusion that adults actually cause developmental progress by the way in which they speak to young children .
2 By the early twentieth century this situation had improved slightly , due in part to an expansion in the range of occupations open to young middle class women .
3 Already , one school leaver in 10 is offered a training voucher — a means to encourage a sharp improvement in the quality and quantity of training available to that age group while increasing the choice and opportunity open to young people .
4 We run some 19 national sporting competitions and events annually , open to young people throughout the UK , and each year these competitions are reviewed and evaluated by an appropriate specialist committee .
5 Staff at Walnuttree Hospital , Sudbury , are using the balloons grounded by the RAF to decorate wards , give to young families attending the local clinic and at the hospital 's summer fete .
6 Certainly , this is not the sort of behaviour that modern judges have in mind when they refer to young thugs as behaving ‘ like animals ’ .
7 Accordingly , Sir David has requested that I convey to young Reginald the facts of life . ’
8 Mother also went with me to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury 's wife , Mrs Fisher , talk to young wives and give them some advice on the repair of their families after the separations many of them had suffered .
9 It is well known that when parents talk to young children they repeat a great deal of what the child says ( and , of course , also expand it ) .
10 She would be prepared to go into schools and talk to young people about violence and the danger of carrying knives .
11 Call to young musicmakers
12 QUERY to young shop assistant in Harrods : ‘ Do you wrap ? ’
13 If we are to move towards transforming schools so that they deliver to young people a more appropriate and empowering kind of education than many of them currently receive , and if , as I have argued , this must happen with the committed participation of substantial numbers of teachers , then it follows that the promotion of integrity and self-respect amongst teachers is the most urgent challenge that education currently faces .
14 This has shown that the language which adults address to young children is different in many ways from the language of adults talking to one another .
15 Go and see to young Nicodemus and have your own supper ! ’
16 Aidan Macfarlane , however , reflects much sociological work when he mentions the complex motivations that lead to young people 's behaviour .
17 For instance , most first births ordinarily occur to young women , many of those of second and third order to women in the maternal ages of highest reproductive efficiency , and births of high order to older women .
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