Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [adj] household " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most comprehensive national picture of informal carers undertaken by the General Household Survey 1985 shows that 3.5 million women and 2.5 million men had caring responsibilities , though this is disproportionately the care of an elderly spouse for men . |
| 2 | Among carers living in the same household as the person receiving care , this difference is even more apparent , with 62 per cent of women providing help with personal care and 53 per cent being responsible for giving medication , compared with 43 per cent and 37 per cent of men respectively . |
| 3 | The only type of help in which , according to the 1985 GHS , men clearly outnumber women is in taking the disabled person out — 60 per cent of men compared with 49 per cent of women carers living in the same household as the person being given care ( Green , 1988 , p. 27 ) . |
| 4 | Carers living in the same household as the person receiving care , female carers , those with sole responsibility for providing care and those who were not economically active were especially disadvantaged . |
| 5 | Extended families living in the same household remain very common . |
| 6 | The questionnaire included personal details ( age , sex , current grade of employment , ethnic group , marital status , years of full time education , highest level of education , partner 's and father 's occupation , housing tenure , and car ownership ) ; health ( self rated health over the past 12 months , presence of longstanding illness , and presence of recurring health problems based on questions used in the general household survey , and presence of psychiatric symptoms based on the 30 item general health questionnaire ) ; health related behaviours ( current smoking habits , usual frequency of alcohol consumption in past 12 months , and amount of alcohol consumed in the past seven days ) ; psychosocial work characteristics ( assessed with a 67 item questionnaire based on the occupational strain model of job demands and decision latitude which included questions on control , variety and use of skills , and work pace as proposed by Karasek , support at work , and job satisfaction ) ; social circumstances outside work ( number of dependent children , social contact with relatives and friends , and personal difficulties such as financial problems ) ; and types of social support ( assessed by 15 self report questions on up to four nominated close friends or relatives ) . |
| 7 | In 1365 the succession dispute in Brittany was solved in an agreement , the Treaty of Guêrande , under which John de Montfort , son of the John de Montfort who had allied with Edward III in 1341 , became duke but agreed to do homage to the King of France , though many Englishmen remained in the ducal household , and some English captains who owed their fortunes to war , such as Robert Knolles , stayed on in the duchy . |
| 8 | Paternal authority was basic to the Zuwaya image , for loyalties depended on ancient domesticities : it was because your ancestors and his ancestors lived in the same household , under the same authority , that you owed another loyalty ( unless , as happened , you were in dispute with him , in which case those old fraternities marked the division between the two of you ) . |
| 9 | In addition , it was shown that women living in the same household as the person for whom they were caring were more likely to be either working full-time or not at all ; part-time employment was taken when the sick or elderly person lived elsewhere . |
| 10 | A rather similar pattern can be seen in the very different circumstances of the inter-war economic depression , when the Household Means Test meant effectively that young working adults living in the same household as their unemployed parents were expected to support them financially . |
| 11 | Nearly half the women questioned in the General Household Survey , published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , who drank between eight and 14 units a week claimed to drink hardly at all . |