Example sentences of "[prep] caring for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solution was a simple one : employ priests with the sole responsibility of singing the memorial requiems so as to allow the parish priests to go about their customary role of caring for the spiritual needs of the living . |
| 2 | Taking the worry out of caring for the departed . |
| 3 | Alongside the debates about the most appropriate method of caring for the elderly are concerns about the ‘ blocking ’ of acute beds by older people who no longer need the facilities provided by an acute setting but who , for other reasons , can not be discharged . |
| 4 | Aside from the practical aspects of caring for the young people , there was much talk of spiritual care and regeneration , so that the young men at Elpis Lodge would go out into the world ‘ imbued and enlightened with the hope of a better future ’ , and not embittered by the ill-treatment and injustice they had experienced . |
| 5 | Instead of taking account of and sharing variations in earnings and living standards between spouses , whatever the number of marriages , and then treating them as individuals , the British system as described above has preferred to recognise the work of caring for the young , the sick and the old by giving credits which maintain the care-taker 's entitlement to the basic state pension . |
| 6 | I hope I have not made the experience of caring for the sick parent sound all gloom and sacrifice and bedpans . |
| 7 | Reading is encouraged across the whole spectrum of nursing literature rather , reflecting in part the principles of holism ; of caring for the whole person rather than being disease or disorder linked . |
| 8 | When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home , and whatever the sound policies , on the part of the government , which lay behind this decision , it was undoubtedly inconvenient for those upon whom would fall the burden of caring for the deranged . |
| 9 | Friendship is about caring for the other person , respecting the other person , sharing your interests with the other person , enjoying just being with the other person — but not about suffocating the other person with big slobbering kisses ! |
| 10 | Hospital nursing is mainly about caring for the sick . |
| 11 | What does the future hold for caring for the elderly . |
| 12 | A handout is currently being produced for those responsible for caring for the elderly . |
| 13 | Acute grief at the death of one parent may inhibit a family for caring for the surviving spouse . |
| 14 | Councils charged with caring for the public interest start to panic at the thought of this oversized weed with its excruciating sap . |
| 15 | He imagines their having a child together ; he imagines Louise 's death and his own subsequent tenderness in caring for the motherless infant ( we do not , alas , have Louise 's response to this particular flight ) . |
| 16 | Another is Mary Seacole , the Jamaican-born nurse whose extraordinary abilities and dedication in caring for the wounded and sick during the Crimean war won her a reputation , at the time , equal to that of Florence Nightingale but who was soon forgotten , until the more recent attempts at reconstructing the history of the black presence in Britain . |
| 17 | Mr Baker also conceded ‘ there will be in the 1990s inescapable areas of expenditure where there has got to be increases , for example , in caring for the elderly ’ . |
| 18 | The service section also involved her in caring for the elderly and paediatrics . |
| 19 | A very successful appeal was made in September by actress Susannah York on behalf of the S.O.S. Society to support their work in caring for the elderly and disabled . |
| 20 | Male vigour in display could also indicate vigour in caring for the young . |
| 21 | This promises to make nursing as a career much more dynamic and pro-active , although the nursing role in caring for the sick and those people limited by disability will continue and develop in response to the needs expressed by society . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 23 | He worked in an environment dedicated to caring for the homeless . |
| 24 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |