Example sentences of "[adj] services for " in BNC.

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1 Others have moved away from responsive services for traditional public library targets to concentrate their resources on outreach services to the disadvantaged sections of communities — specialized information facilities , collections for minority user groups , and so on .
2 The post office has a monopoly only on the delivery of letters and parcels weighing less than a kilogram — a decling trade and one that now represents only 40 per cent of total earnings although attempts to stop the drift by creating , for example , specialised services for direct marketing have been very successful .
3 It is likely that the specialised services for visually handicapped children will be part of the local education authority 's educational services , although some advisers are based on a special school for visually handicapped children .
4 Reading Bus tested Italian-made rape methyl ester ( RME ) on three buses on different services for nine months .
5 Bill Morris , of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , also blamed government neglect of public services for the tragedies at Lockerbie , Clapham and Zeebrugge .
6 Each Authority has a duty to provide its respective radio and television services as public services for the dissemination of information , education and entertainment , and to ensure that its programmes maintain a high general standard , in particular as respects their quality and content , and a proper balance and wide range of subject matter … .
7 The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue .
8 ( Consideration being given to possible use by Public Services for retail cash sales etc ) .
9 Why are the Government preventing local authorities from providing adequate services for the chronically sick and disabled ?
10 eight general crisis centres , with or without beds , alternative psycho-social centres based largely on religious principles , specialized services for youngsters , outreaching services as part of community mental health centres and emergency room services as part of the general hospitals .
11 Cultural barriers have been cited rather too glibly to explain the serious difficulties which exist in providing acceptable services for ethnic minority populations .
12 This paper has focused on residential services for youngsters with psycho-social problems .
13 ( 1986 ) , the studies are primarily concerned with fieldwork practice , a number of findings emerge which are highly relevant to residential services for children and young people .
14 Providing community nurses and local residential services for mentally handicapped people to accelerate the rundown of the large mental handicap hospitals .
15 Social Work Departments have two major problems when they consider residential services for dementia sufferers .
16 In some parts of the country a substantial part of residential services for adults with long-term mental illness , elderly or otherwise , is provided by private landlords who may employ one or two staff to assist with the care of a few residents .
17 Social Services for Women and Their Families
18 You should tell your Social Services Occupational Therapist that you wish to apply to Social Services for financial help as soon as you know to prevent delay .
19 If you are over retirement age , disabled , or sick , disconnection can be delayed for 14 days or more ( 21 days in the case of gas ) if you inform the fuel boards that you are contacting the Department of Social Security ( D.S.S. ) or Social Services for help .
20 The Plowden Report on Control of Public Expenditure contained , amongst other nuggets of wisdom , the following sentence which I should like to take as my starting-point : ‘ The social changes of the last fifteen years have altered the incidence of hardship , so that there now may well be excessive social services for some purposes and inadequate ones for others . ’
21 It is therefore wildly unlikely that the Plowden Committee 's assertion should not be well founded , that ‘ there now may well be excessive social services for some purposes ’ .
22 It is also quite likely that there is truth in the other half of their assertion , which sounds as though it were consequential , but really is a quite unconnected proposition , namely , that there now may well be inadequate social services for other purposes .
23 So let us turn from the obstacles to applying in practice the theoretical truism in the first proposition of the Plowden Committee — that ‘ there may now well be excessive social services for some purposes ’ — and consider the second proposition — that there may now well be ‘ inadequate ones for others ’ .
24 I got help from the social services for this : they brought sheets and pillowcases from the hospital .
25 In 1987/88 , English local authorities spent £1.3 billion on personal social services for elderly people .
26 Social Services for Women and Their Families
27 Jeffery and Sheila Parfitt blamed social services for failing to help when the burden of care overwhelmed them .
28 The relationship between research , policy and practice is not smooth and its past history with regard to social services for children has not always been happy .
29 It is possible to do a financial calculation which puts a price on this , by working out the number of hours ‘ caring ’ labour contributed by relatives , and the total amount is equivalent to the whole statutory input of health and social services for the equivalent age groups ( Family Policy Studies , Centre , 1984 ; Finch , 1986b ) .
30 During the 1980s Margaret Boushel , Claire Debenham , Lisa Dresner and Anna Gorbach worked in the London borough of Islington within social services for pre-school children .
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