Example sentences of "own homes " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include : pedal cycles for a clinic allowing nurses to get out to outlying villages ; health care kits to help with the care of patients in their own homes ; training for different agencies ; and a variety of education initiatives . |
| 2 | This is a discretionary trust fund which was set up to give financial help to people who need to pay for personal care or domestic assistance in order to remain living independently in their own homes . |
| 3 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 4 | Statistics have been published showing numbers of residents supported by local authorities in England in their own homes , and in private and voluntary establishments , for the year ending 31 March 1990 . |
| 5 | Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes , whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision . |
| 6 | One important factor , he suspects , is that the market in the South-east is so depressed that southern buyers simply can not sell their own homes in order to move . |
| 7 | See now , there 's a lot of people who will speak to you friendly out on the street and there 's a lot more of them who 'll speak to you inside their own homes . |
| 8 | Badger cub meles meles born at the beginning of the year are leaving their family setts now and digging out their own homes . |
| 9 | But amongst many working-class Labour voters , the prospect of emulating their middle-class neighbours and owning their own homes on tax-subsidized mortgages proved irresistible . |
| 10 | This break with post-war social assumptions proved relatively easy to initiate : by the end of 1984 , 800,000 council tenants were buying their own homes . |
| 11 | Their ambitions were to own their own homes and have private pensions . |
| 12 | It is difficult to imagine that there will be a return to the status quo ante regarding the closed shop , trade union immunities and pre-strike ballots , the right of council house tenants to buy their own homes ( over a million former council tenants have made such purchases ) , and the position of former nationalized industries . |
| 13 | It was higher still in what Crewe calls the ‘ new working class ’ — workers living in the south , owning their own homes , employed in the private sector and not in trade unions . |
| 14 | It declared them educable , took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling . |
| 15 | This last amendment would have the effect of removing the deterrent which local authorities will face if they place people in their own homes and have to meet the full cost . |
| 16 | But , in order to buy rather than rent their own homes , Britain 's nine million home buyers now have to borrow an average of £37,000 — more than twice the average income — whereas 10 years ago the average loan of £11,800 worked out at 1.7 times income . |
| 17 | The practice is to let parents choose freely their children 's schools , let people buy their own homes , let public-housing tenants run their own estates . |
| 18 | Libyan police forces were of various kinds ( municipal , traffic , frontier , uniformed public security , plainclothes detective , and secret ) , but they shared one characteristic : the policemen usually lived in their own homes , in the towns and oases in which they had rights to land . |
| 19 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 20 | It acts as British agent for a large number of New Yorkers offering bed and breakfast in their own homes , and can also find apartments — from studios to three-bedroom flats — many privately owned . |
| 21 | 1973 ) found that those with a daughter or daughters were more likely to die in their own homes than those with just a son or sons . |
| 22 | But some of the less skilled tasks undertaken by district and other nurses for people living in their own homes were probably done by staff in the residential homes . |
| 23 | Others who have done so have argued that elderly people are often faced with a choice between an unpleasant battle to survive in their own homes and an equally unpleasant enforced dependence in the institution ( Wilkin and Hughes , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | We are raising the standard of our housing , as more people own and improve their own homes . |
| 25 | We will examine whether certain regulations affecting individual citizens within their own homes could be made advisory , rather than mandatory . |
| 26 | Some 4 million more householders own their own homes compared with 1979 . |
| 27 | developed the local authority role from direct provider to effective enabler , encouraging many tenants to buy their own homes , allowing schools the freedom to manage their own affairs and improving the quality of local services by allowing private business to compete for contracts . |
| 28 | Since the ‘ Right to Buy ’ was introduced in 1980 , we have enabled almost 90,000 council and housing association tenants to buy their own homes . |
| 29 | Consumer goals which were never contemplated by the peasantry in the past , now appear on the screen in their own homes and villages . |
| 30 | Since the standard housing of towns and cities has been unable to provide shelter , urban populations have been compelled to take the situation into their own hands and put up their own homes . |