Example sentences of "[noun sg] to stay at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main aim of Community Care is to help people who need assistance because of age , disability or infirmity to stay at home for as long as possible , by providing services to support them , their relatives and carers . |
| 2 | With an upper limit of $77.7 a day , a large firm can get half , small and medium-sized firms two-thirds of the cost of paying an employee to stay at home . |
| 3 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 4 | Only once had he let himself begrudge it , only once , that night , and never since , for he knew it was his duty and his right to stay at home with her . |
| 5 | In teaching , for example , married women were charged with being less efficient than men because of their higher absentee rates caused by pregnancy and by their need to stay at home to look after sick children , the fundamental assumption being that marriage and motherhood were incompatible with a career . |
| 6 | We would now strongly appeal to those supporters who do not get a ticket to stay at home . ’ |
| 7 | The truth is Mr Chairman that community care had as it 's major objective extending choice , give the chance to stay at home to many people for as long as possible , to eliminated the unwanted percentage of residential placements . |
| 8 | In spite of Home Office advice to stay at home , they intend to try again . |
| 9 | On the other hand , fear of the unknown , shame at admitting that relatives have harmed them , and fear of retribution may create a kind of mental and emotional paralysis which is not the same as a positive wish to stay at home . |
| 10 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 11 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |
| 12 | He 's past his peak as a tennis player , so it 's his turn to stay at home . |
| 13 | His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance . |
| 14 | ‘ On a Monday morning , they do n't start till 9.30 , to give them the opportunity to stay at home until 6.00am . |
| 15 | There is a cost to others incurred by the old person 's decision to stay at home . |
| 16 | His decision to stay at home for emergency meetings sent shock waves through the money markets and shares plunged . |
| 17 | And if you make the conscious decision to stay at home then |
| 18 | She agreed it was possible but was too intrigued by the note of challenge in the invitation to stay at home . |
| 19 | Married women were thought to be particularly likely to abuse the system because of the temptation to stay at home to catch up with housework . |