Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] care for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases .
3 I hope I have not made the experience of caring for the sick parent sound all gloom and sacrifice and bedpans .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Years of caring for a sick , disabled or elderly relative , or months of waiting to hear whether a job is to end , cause stress to accumulate in our lives .
7 Male vigour in display could also indicate vigour in caring for the young .
8 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 ) .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The methods and techniques which have been developed to cope with the child-rearing process seem to apply equally to families who are experiencing the difficulties and frustrations of caring for an ageing relative .
14 Many adult children gain great happiness from caring for a much-loved parent in the closing years of their life .
15 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 .
16 The strain of caring for a disturbed relative can be considerable and the need for an understanding and reliable friend to talk to and share the anxieties with is often very great .
17 Acute grief at the death of one parent may inhibit a family for caring for the surviving spouse .
18 I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’
19 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 .
20 Or if we find that a grand-daughter is assisting her own mother in caring for an elderly parent , whom is the granddaughter helping ?
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