Example sentences of "[prep] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had come to my grandfather through his great-uncle William Farmborough , on the understanding that he would be looked after in his old age . |
| 2 | ‘ Mebbe that 's what they were after in the first place . |
| 3 | When Ben was eventually found , in the Chapel House Estate , it was discovered that he had previously been looked after in a place called Jesmond . |
| 4 | Now and then , waiters would serve us refreshing drinks from the bar and while we were busy unwinding , we were happy to know that the children were being well looked after in the Children 's Club . |
| 5 | In 391 Theodosius made Christianity the state religion , and died shortly after in Milan , which had become , for a short time , the seat of the imperial court in the western half of the Empire . |
| 6 | Now Wedgwood generously agreed to waive the buy-back clause in return for a series of covenants ensuring that the house would be restored and looked after in the future . |
| 7 | He came to the conclusion that time can be regarded as a numbering process associated with our perception of before and after in motion and change . |
| 8 | Consequently graduates from the Department of Hotel and Catering Management are highly sought after in all areas of the industry . |
| 9 | Bees raised on a hillside of wildflowers produce a fine wax that is blended into a hand cream much sought after in Bath and beyond . |
| 10 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 11 | We want them looked after in a caring way , and treated as children , not as bits of evidence in some concocted case about satanism or something . ’ |
| 12 | He was happy and well looked after in this home . |
| 13 | Forced to flee the Nazis in 1937 — leaving behind the 20,000 bibliography volumes — the older Breslauer resettled his family in London but was killed shortly after in an air-raid . |
| 14 | It is clearly undesirable and often more expensive to admit or keep in district general hospitals or long stay hospitals old or mentally ill or mentally handicapped people who could be properly looked after in the community . |
| 15 | If only one in 10 of those people cared for at home had instead to be looked after in residential institutions the additional public cost would exceed £1 billion a year . |
| 16 | This may be appropriate , not only because hospital beds are usually expensive but also because most people prefer to be looked after in the community . |
| 17 | You 'll find the month stressful , arduous , demanding and difficult — but if you persevere in the most important area of all , you 'll win your worldly battle and have a happy ever after in your emotional life too . |
| 18 | I have been asked to see that you are properly looked after in your retirement . ’ |
| 19 | These findings do not confirm fears of an overall increase in the number of old people looked after in institutions , and the proportion of 4.7% remains commendably low by international standards ( and lower than the national average of 5.1% in 1971 ) . |
| 20 | However the development , mainly in the voluntary sector , of segregated dementia day centres offers the hope that the needs of the large intermediate group of sufferers and their carers can be looked after in small , local , enthusiastic units , taking pressure away from the " ordinary day centres and day hospitals and allowing them a better mix a Policy Part IV of the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act sets out the provisions for local authority residential care . |
| 21 | Sigered was styled very soon after in 763–4 , however , only ‘ king of half Kent ’ ( presumably west Kent ) when he granted land , again to Rochester , subject to the confirmation of a new co-ruler , Eanmund ( CS 194 : S 33 ) , possibly in east Kent . |
| 22 | Although the qualification was very much sought after in the beginning with the burgeoning of more centres running it up and down the country , the trainees soon realised that in spite of the skills they gained , the diploma was not recognised by the DES even as a first stage towards further accreditation . |
| 23 | … John and I , flattered at first by the sweet smell of success , had to get out of it , into another language , forgotten in the House of Fame but happy ever after in the House of Fiction . |
| 24 | Fabrics are expensive , but they will last for years and give great pleasure provided they are looked after in the proper manner . |
| 25 | Community care planning in this new form presents better opportunities for better services and for more people in need to be looked after in their own homes . |
| 26 | There are countries where you might enter and be looked after in a hospitable way ; you do not feel that could happen in England . |
| 27 | They do live happily ever after in the end . |
| 28 | Their aging parents will be looked after in private homes . |
| 29 | For most mentally-ill people are being looked after in the community anyway , by relatives and friends who can not bring themselves to have the people they love locked away . |
| 30 | People in the street are asked to prepare for an influx of refugees who will be looked after in the local church hall . |