Example sentences of "for the [adj] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not to say that organized and structured prayers for the dead had ceased , for the Roman Rite included plenary intercessions for the living and the dead at every mass ; the annual mass for the departed was on All Souls ' Day , a standard event in the Church 's calendar , set apart for the benefit of souls in purgatory . |
| 2 | There are more and more opticians springing up in the High Street , shops selling healthcare equipment and equipment for the elderly are on the increase and shops are becoming more aware of deaf and disabled customers . |
| 3 | Most people in a residential home for the elderly are in their eighties . |
| 4 | Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life . |
| 5 | Ostensibly a new agenda for the Nineties is in preparation with the emphasis on the ‘ quality if life ’ . |
| 6 | The insensitivity of the Benthamites , who promoted the Act , lay in their refusal to see how bitterly the poor would resent becoming the designated victims of the Act , as if their love for the dead were in some way inferior to that of ‘ their betters ’ . |
| 7 | Basic unemployment benefits were reduced , while other supplementary benefits for unemployed people , for single parents and for the sick were to be subjected to means testing . |
| 8 | While the preparations for the fair were in progress , the young man made his way from the green to The Drover 's Arms by way of Lulling Woods . |
| 9 | the average age of lone parents in accommodation for the homeless is in the mid-to-late twenties and a very small percentage are unmarried teenage girls . |