Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ British business now has a great opportunity to expand into overseas markets and to replace imports at home . |
| 2 | She also found that her driving licence would be handy and she sometimes needed to visit patients at home . |
| 3 | In order for this to be effectively implemented , social security benefits and existing community care monies are to be channelled through local authority social services and these funds will also be available to support individuals at home . |
| 4 | By early 1949 the outlook was improving , yet there was a lack of will on the part of both industry and government to plan for there turn to free markets at home and abroad . |
| 5 | By midday the AA was warning shoppers to leave cars at home and use public transport or risk being trapped in city centres . |
| 6 | Now that high streets are deserted , the trick is to grab customers at home . |
| 7 | By 1755 serious friction had developed between England and France over their respective Far Eastern and North American colonies , and it was rapidly learned in London that the French had , though reluctantly , decided that only a major invasion of England itself could force the English to keep ships at home or bring them back from overseas . |
| 8 | Arthur Newsholme , the Chief Medical Officer to the Local Government Board , believed it would be ‘ folly ’ to infer from Campbell 's report that ‘ the industrial occupation of mothers is not a most injurious element in our social life ’ , and in 1919 the Women 's Employment Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction , set up to advise on the opportunities for women 's employment after the war , expressed the hope that ‘ every inducement , direct or indirect , will be given to keep mothers at home ’ . |
| 9 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ Local authorities have to accept that if they 've made every effort to keep children at home with the non-abusing parent and it does n't work , they may have to be taken into care . ’ |
| 10 | A home tutor is a teacher employed to teach children at home when they are unable to attend school for any length of time , for instance because of illness . |
| 11 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 12 | When , in 1849 , he despatched French troops to reinstate the Pope in Rome , and when , the following year , he revived Catholic claims to control various Christian buildings in Jerusalem and Bethlehem , he was trying to convince Catholics at home of his piety . |
| 13 | Rangers manager Walter Smith still believes that Marseilles have a slight edge as they have to face Rangers at home on April 7 but he said : ‘ I 'm still optimistic about what we can do in our home games . ’ |
| 14 | Some rich men took utterly destitute people into their houses , where they performed menial services , and it was usual for even the moderately well-off to invite poor men and strangers off the street to eat meals at home . |
| 15 | Police have been conducting house to house enquiries at homes nearby . |
| 16 | She describes the context of the child care service , the preventive services and what happens when they are not enough to maintain children at home . |
| 17 | He might have to raise rates drastically , to convince sceptics at home and abroad that Labour means to uphold sterling 's parity in the ERM . |
| 18 | For the time being , however , Hitler was able to exploit the successes of the summer offensive to raise spirits at home again in his next major speech in the Berlin Sportpalast on 30 September 1942 . |
| 19 | Bold spirits in the satellite countries were able to take liberties at home ( Lutoslawski , Penderecki , Kurtag ) when they did n't get away in person ( Panufnik , Ligeti ) . |
| 20 | Read about the amazing wealth of ingredients used in the Land of the Rising Sun and try some of our tasty , easy to follow recipes at home . |