Example sentences of "[to-vb] older [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noted earlier , the lack of education and training of older workers is exacerbated by the unwillingness of government and employers to retrain older people . |
| 2 | This underlines the importance of training schemes in which professionals have opportunities to meet older people who are in charge of their lives , who have something to say and who are not being seen simply because they have overwhelming problems . |
| 3 | The British situation is mirrored throughout Europe where there is little evidence of government policy changes to encourage older workers to stay in work . |
| 4 | Sport is no longer the exclusive province of young people , and the Sports Council runs a campaign called ‘ 50 Plus ’ , to encourage older people either to continue to participate in sport , or to start now . |
| 5 | Active steps should be taken to encourage older people to quit smoking ( Vetter et al . |
| 6 | ‘ The aim of the day was to encourage older people to undertake regular health and fitness related activities and opportunities , ’ said from the Sports Resource Team . |
| 7 | The Age Concern report on shopping , which was produced in 1985 with the help of a group of representatives from major retailers , identified a range of environmental conditions which would be likely to attract older customers into stores . |
| 8 | And we will allow them to attract older students as well . |
| 9 | A recent analysis of such practices in The Lancet concluded that ‘ there seems to be no reason to exclude older women from regular screening for cancer of the cervix . |
| 10 | On the one hand , age-restrictive social policies have been used by the state both to exclude older workers from the labour force and to legitimate that exclusion through the notion of ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 11 | Thus , retirement may be seen as an age discriminatory social process designed to exclude older people en masse from the workforce . |
| 12 | In sum , mass retirement has been invented in twentieth-century society to exclude older people from paid employment at what are arbitrary ages . |
| 13 | Against the background that people expected support for an elderly person to be reciprocated in some fairly immediate way , the pressure to exclude older people from the labour market was accompanied by a pressure to give them some independent means of support which would prevent their having to rely on their children or other relatives . |
| 14 | At Yalding , UK , a new ICI Agrochemicals plant , sanctioned in 1991 at a cost of £16.9 million , will produce insecticides in water-soluble granules to replace older formulations containing solvents . |
| 15 | Last year the Institute of Personnel Management warned companies that reluctance to hire older people was inefficient and harmed competitiveness . |
| 16 | While the basic nineteenth-century response to poverty was to try to strengthen older institutions , some of the consequences of urbanization and industrialization posed problems for which entirely new responses were necessary . |
| 17 | The large extended family , with its reliable supporting cast of aunts , uncles and cousins , as well as sons and daughters , all willing to help older members to remain happily in their own homes for as long as possible , is a thing of the past . |
| 18 | There are around 180 repair schemes to help older people obtain grants or loans for repair and improvement work . |
| 19 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 20 | There are some areas of medical activity whose beneficiaries are almost invariably of advanced years and whose practitioners could thereby be claimed to favour older citizens . |
| 21 | Smaller rodents also chew bone for much the same reason , as well as for its calcium or phosphate content , and like porcupines they seem to prefer older bone rather than completely fresh bone . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the division into thirteen Books ( really twelve plus ) can only give us cause to examine Wordsworth 's deliberate structuring of the poem to fit older models . |
| 23 | Are clinicians reluctant to put older people on surgical waiting lists because they are in some way discriminating against older people ? |
| 24 | On similar lines the NOPWC reported in 1963 that some nineteen employment agencies were being run by old people 's welfare committees ‘ to give older workers the opportunity to continue working beyond retirement age , ’ and prevent them ‘ being thrown on a human scrap heap where their physical and mental health suffered and some became prematurely incapable of leading independent lives ’ ( NOPWC 1963 : 4 ) . |
| 25 | To give older people a good death as well as a good life . |
| 26 | To deny older women access to routine screening is both contra-indicated and explicitly discriminatory . |
| 27 | Appealing to employers to make special provision to enable older people to continue or , indeed , return to employment , the Ministry offered the help of its industrial rehabilitation units in cases where lack of confidence and low morale were obstacles to the re-employment of older people . |
| 28 | As long as the market continues to see older people as objects of pity rather than profit , it will take limited steps to attract them as customers . |
| 29 | Frederick Frank Veazey has bought the club and aims to target older people when the Middlesbrough premises re-opens as The New Belmont Club . |
| 30 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |