Example sentences of "[v-ing] alone [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weeping alone is painful . |
| 2 | In general the gap between lip-reading with fingerspelling , and lip-reading alone is greatest for comprehension of larger units such as sentences , and least for single words . |
| 3 | Fear of dying alone is , of course , the most basic and primitive fear . |
| 4 | As in Miss Austen 's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and fortune was in need of a wife , so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her ( prudently stipulating , however , the three months only , in case she should wish to draw back ) . |
| 5 | The likelihood of living alone is greatest among the most elderly , particularly for women . |
| 6 | The likelihood of living alone is greatest among the most elderly , particularly for women . |
| 7 | But one of the great changes from the past is that this possibility of living alone is swiftly becoming a probability . |
| 8 | Changes over time also indicate that living alone is on the increase as a feature of old age : the General Household Survey ( OPCS , 1985 ) shows that in 1973 , 40 per cent of those aged 75 and over lived alone ; ten years later the figure was 47 per cent . |
| 9 | What is more , owing to various factors , the number of people living alone is growing . |
| 10 | Everyone who lives alone makes the breakthrough when they realise that living alone is not a prison sentence or a state to be endured . |
| 11 | There is little to say about this except that if living alone is a new experience for you you will tend to buy too much at first and waste a lot unless you cook and freeze . |
| 12 | You need to remind yourself that a visit paid to an elderly relative living alone is a very important occasion , although of course the atmosphere should be relaxed and happy . |
| 13 | The use of steps or step-stools by elderly people living alone is dangerous and should be discouraged if possible , as their grip and balance are often impaired ; but a one-step , non-slip footstool , with four legs and a chrome-plated tubular steel handrail at the front to hold on to , is very safe and stable . |
| 14 | Elderly couple households fare much the same as all households , but elderly persons living alone are much less likely to benefit from such goods . |
| 15 | Other advantages of living alone are having time and space for myself to read , write , draw , think , learn , do what I feel is right for myself . |
| 16 | People living alone are particularly at risk if they smoke because , as I mentioned in an earlier chapter , it is a considerable fire hazard in the home . |
| 17 | Many vulnerable elderly people , particularly those living alone are sustained by a network of friends , neighbours and more distant family calling briefly on a regular or irregular basis . |
| 18 | Elderly people living alone are more likely to receive substitutable state-funded services than those living in other types of household with comparable levels of disability . |
| 19 | On the other hand , different types of household have very different incomes , even after standardizing for the number of people in the household and including all sources of income : households of elderly women living alone are poorer than other types of household . |
| 20 | The slightly higher RNR levels for elderly married couples and for men living alone than for women living alone are because the women have less income from paid employment and from occupational pensions . |
| 21 | The proportion severely disabled also differed with gender , women living alone being considerably more likely to be disabled than men living alone , at all ages . |
| 22 | The situation for chiropody at home was mid-way between that for the receipt of home help and GP visits , with the ratio for elderly men living alone being 2.7 times higher than for elderly married men . |
| 23 | CASE STUDY 2.1 A newly blind old woman living alone was referred by her next door neighbour for a place in a residential home . |
| 24 | In 1979 about 57 per cent of elderly married couples ' incomes were supplemented by an occupational pension ( usually arising from the husband 's previous job ) and the percentage for men living alone was much the same ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 25 | The higher income of married couples and men living alone was the combined result of the continued involvement of men in the labour market after the statutory retirement age , although this had decreased sharply over the previous few years , and of the receipt of occupational pensions . |
| 26 | Living alone was like the idea of a hairshirt to George . |
| 27 | Although 15 per cent of the younger elderly women living alone were in paid work , this did not lift the income of the age-group to an appreciable extent , because of the poor wages they received . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that the incomes of elderly married couples and of men living alone were considerably higher than that of elderly women living alone , both groups were near to the bottom of the distribution of income when compared with households not including elderly people . |
| 29 | Single people or couples living alone were encouraged to join a cookery pool , saving fuel by pooling rations and take it in turns to cook meals for other people in the group . |
| 30 | I agreed to marriage counselling but only if I could go alone , although I knew that going alone was a bit like filing fiddled expenses . |