Example sentences of "care for [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Guardian reports that 25 baby sharks ( in this case Tope ) were being cared for at the Sea Life Centre at Hastings after their mother was netted by a fisherman .
2 Up to 15 people with brain injuries are cared for at the centre each day and the main feature of the extension will be a large activity room .
3 The starting point for the three readings that follow is the increased numbers of children under 5 whose parents both work , and who are cared for outside the family ( whether in a day nursery or with a child minder ) for a major part of the day ( 25 per cent of children under 5 in the United Kingdom had working mothers in 1976 , although only a small proportion of these were working full-time ) .
4 Growing in excess of 400mm , Synodontis schall can be expected to be quite long lived , provided it is well cared for in the aquarium .
5 Around 85% of those cared for in the capital are gay men , with an increasing number of women and children .
6 I mean I can remember the nineteen twenty , I I were n't sure whether it was the twenty one or the twenty six strike , and my father was erm on strike , you see , but the ponies had to be thus cared for in the field an I do n't think he received any pay and I remember very well erm going to the , my father applying for relief , and er we had to go and face the erm Court of Referees .
7 It means that even gardens are no longer cared for in the despair that is felt .
8 62% felt that they should be cared for in the community in ordinary homes rather than in special homes or hospitals
9 While the planned closure of both Digby and Exminster did mean some transitory inter-hospital transfers , both the chronic long-stay population and elderly people with dementia were considered to be better cared for in the community .
10 I point out the difference as many people with mental health problems are now being cared for in the community and I feel that the community needs to understand these people rather than doubly stigmatise them by thinking that they have two illnesses rather than one .
11 On Timor by late May , however , there was the comforting knowledge that the most seriously wounded could be evacuated by sea-plane through Suai and that others could be cared for in the Ainaro hospital — a different picture from the days of doubt and dismay some eight weeks earlier .
12 In the October of 1855 Sarah returned to London , just five years after she had left her baby to be cared for in the Foundling Hospital .
13 In the Leisure Society the employed are an elite of highly educated and skilled professionals who work full-time , but the wealth created by the equipment they have designed and operate is dispersed rather widely so that the mass of the population are able to live reasonably well off the products of the automated machinery cared for by the core elite .
14 Initially only orphaned , abandoned or destitute children were cared for by the state ; then those who were cruelly treated or delinquent ; and today any child who is deprived of normal home life on a temporary or permanent basis .
15 On most trains the wheelchair passengers will be cared for by the ticket collector .
16 ‘ I remember her card : ‘ I am being very attentively cared for by the hotel doctor , William Simpson . ’
17 The buyer 's concerns here are that these items be properly used and cared for by the seller , that they be used only for the purposes of the sub-contract ( ie that the seller does not use them to make goods for third parties which can then be sold by them in competition with the buyer ) , and that they be returned to him at the end of the sub-contract .
18 break-up of family through death , divorce , separation ( especially when the child was not cared for by the mother )
19 This question has been answered to some extent by a recent paper which showed a significantly higher mortality and morbidity among diabetics discharged solely to primary care in the community compared to those cared for by the hospital diabetic clinic ( Hayes & Harries , 1984 ) .
20 The terror of leaving the tot you have cared for round the clock in the hands of a virtual stranger can be more daunting than the birth itself .
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