Example sentences of "and disabled [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would encourage the idea that to be old and disabled is not so different from being young and disabled ; that dementia is a mental illness , not an inevitable feature of old age . |
| 2 | Of course , as Hon. Members have suggested , travel for the elderly and disabled is extremely important . |
| 3 | The trust fund that collects pay-roll taxes from employers and workers and pays out pensions to the old and disabled is running big annual surpluses ( see chart ) . |
| 4 | York 's dial-a-bus service for the elderly and disabled is to be extended to weekends and evenings for a trial three-month period from the end of March . |
| 5 | If facilities for the elderly and disabled are poor , the fear of walking may lead many to become house-bound or institutionalised and , once so dependent , the cost of public service provision to the individual rises very sharply . |
| 6 | The current government must recognise that it can not continue to go down the line of an individualist anxiety- ridden state , of competitive individuals where the poor and disabled are left to starve on city streets . |