Example sentences of "to support themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The observers were also especially impressed by the collective concern for those who showed signs of being unable to support themselves at the local level : |
| 2 | Hence not only were there more old people , but more of them became unable to support themselves at earlier ages . |
| 3 | Weber , however , placed more emphasis than Marx on divisions within the propertyless class , the class who did not own sufficient property to support themselves without working . |
| 4 | The point on which I want to concentrate here is that during the last two centuries changes in the law and in employment policies progressively have excluded both the youngest and the oldest generations from the labour market , and therefore from the means to support themselves through earning wages . |
| 5 | In the case of both pomeshchiks and streltsy , their need to support themselves during much of the year placed enormous obstacles in the way of training and disciplining them , or introducing them to new methods of warfare . |
| 6 | Although some could do this through using their savings or drawing on insurances , many could not , with women much less likely than men to be able to support themselves by these means ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | This led Asquith to fix a pensionable age of seventy , despite the mass of evidence that must people who survived to old age ceased to be able to support themselves by work in their mid-sixties — sixty-five was the age adopted by most occupational and charitable pension schemes . |
| 8 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 9 | In the twentieth century increasingly it has become possible for older people who have withdrawn from the labour market to support themselves from resources provided by the state rather than rely on their families ; the same has not been true of the youngest generation . |
| 10 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |