Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the high proportion who are still dependent on their parents may have important implications for housing and health and social services needed for those who remain at home as their parents become elderly and frail . |
| 3 | They can point to all those young married women with degrees who sit at home and grumble . ’ |
| 4 | Gervase of Tilbury , writing about 1214 , has stories of people who fly at night , of witches who enter houses and have intercourse with sleeping men , who steal infants , and who take the form of animals , especially cats and wolves , at will . |
| 5 | People who smoke at meal times . |
| 6 | Certainly , at the Florida Disney , the one major blot on the landscape is the vast army of seriously obese men , women and children who swig at litre containers of cola and blob out on ribs , chicken , fries , pizza and ice-cream sundaes all day . |
| 7 | Yet if football was the only factor the prospect would be a fascinating one — the 1988 show transferred from the summer thunderstorms of West Germany to the clinging heat of Palermo and Cagliari , in which the Egyptians will be the only players who feel at home . |
| 8 | Women and disabled drivers who feel at risk of breaking down alone have been thrown a lifeline by a motoring organisation . |
| 9 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 10 | FRANCE pursues a single-minded policy to promote families by giving them a large tax deduction for each child , in addition to an allowance for mothers who stay at home . |
| 11 | Tizard , for example , mentions the need to support the natural parents to enable them to care adequately ; Kellmer Pringle has advocated payment for mothers who stay at home to care ; and a further interviewee who may be identified with the ‘ society-as-parent ’ view had this to say in answer to the argument that the 1975 Act put already powerless parents in an even more powerless position : |
| 12 | The romanticized picture of housewives happy over their labour of love is also challenged by accounts of the higher rates of depression among women with small children who stay at home , by such eagerness to take paid work that they will accept rates of pay and conditions of employment that no man would tolerate , and by accounts of the slow hard slog and monotony of housework . |
| 13 | In addition , the study showed that further income is generated by Irish people who stay at home to attend a festival instead of travelling abroad . |
| 14 | I feel we need a poet to tell of the contribution made to our Christian Aid Week by those who stay at home and bake so that the baking stall can be kept so magnificently supplied every day . |
| 15 | There are so many in our pews who play at worship ; who go to church but never truly open themselves up to power of God 's Spirit . |
| 16 | The Report declared that ‘ the country can not afford this wastage , humanly or economically speaking , ’ and therefore ‘ in human justice and in economic self-interest we ought as a country to give that help ’ to working-class youngsters who under-achieve at school . |
| 17 | To ignore those who live at home is unacceptable ; it runs counter to a general sense of social responsibility . |
| 18 | It has sometimes been suggested that there are groups of children , children of ethnic minorities , for example , or children who are extremely socially deprived , who fail at school , who play truant and give up all attempt to succeed , because the content of the curriculum is totally alien to them , unfamiliar , and therefore irrelevant in a strong sense . |
| 19 | Compulsory military service , to complete the education of those who fail at school . |
| 20 | As far as I could gather from the producer , my job would be to record this deterioration and then , without sounding too pious or moralistic , point out its implications for people who drink at work or when they 're driving . |
| 21 | People who work at home . |
| 22 | In the United States , economists calculate that those who work at home for outside contractors or involuntarily work part-time have doubled since 1980 to nearly 17 per cent of all workers . |
| 23 | Humans are emotional beings who excel at misunderstanding computers . |
| 24 | I do not know this vast army of women who disintegrate at menopause , nor the hordes who scrabble blindly for their lost youth . |
| 25 | Surely he 's got loads of time for people who struggle at maths , sport , speelling etc ? |