Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] for [adj] people " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Killed in action ’ was at least a positive end , but ‘ Prisoner of war ’ — waiting for two or three years for other people to win the war for you — was just ineffectual and pitiable , an end which was also not an end .
2 The problem with producing absolutes , or trite answers for grieving people who are asking questions , is that they feel defeated before they have begun to explore .
3 Trade Union officials , including former T N G leader , Jack Jones were at the meeting in Banbury , and called for greater financial and emotional support for retired people .
4 Compacts aim to develop coherent and supportive progression for young people in their transition from school through further education and training , to work , using the wide range of resources available in the whole community .
5 Among PMC 's clients are Amnesty International , Oxfam America , Greenpeace and Working Group for Indigenous Peoples , Amsterdam .
6 There are many ways in which you can help schools provide relevant and interesting learning for young people .
7 A NEW appeal to local businesses for assistance in improving leisure and commercial facilities for disabled people in Edinburgh is under way .
8 At the time , a trust fund was formed with the aims of establishing a permanent memorial to , and annual scholarships for young people connected with the industry .
9 All money raised will go to the British Leprosy Association ( LEPRA ) and the Fieldfare Trust which promotes access to the countryside and environmental education for disabled people .
10 In November 1982 the Prime Minister announced the government 's intention to launch TVEI , a five-year project to be conducted by the Manpower Services Commission ‘ to explore and test methods of organizing , managing and resourcing replicable programmes of general , technical and vocational education for young people between the ages of 14 and 18 ’ .
11 Second , Compact supports schools in raising standards of achievement by setting and rewarding goals for young people .
12 Second , the lion 's share of increased welfare spending since the 1960s has been on programmes most people approve of : social security ( pensions ) financed by tax on earnings , and medical insurance for old people ( Medicare ) .
13 Last year the town missed out , but the borough council , residents and business people have worked together on a new ten-point plan which includes regenerating the town centre by making it fully pedestrianised , building a new shopping development and improving access for disabled people .
14 It looked at formal and informal care for elderly people on their own .
15 Historians such as Richard Smith and David Thomson , however , have shown how enduring and old-fashioned are many twentieth-century patterns of thought and action — such as retirement from the work-force in old age , and the provision of financial and other services for elderly people by the community rather than by kin .
16 Whereas the standards and styles set by the peer group can set highly influential markers around acceptable and unacceptable behaviours for young people it is in individual friendships that young people find support and security , negotiate their emotional independence , exchange information , put beliefs and feelings into words and develop a new and different perspective of themselves .
17 This envisaged a coordinator to integrate the various official and voluntary agencies for elderly people .
18 While industry sources suggest up to 200 could be employed , Lesli O'Dowd estimates the likely figure at less than a quarter of that , with perhaps as few as 10–15 jobs for local people .
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