adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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They came to Hammersmith in London and applied for accommodation as homeless persons.
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The incentive for the men was that as homeless itinerants their social security would be under £20 a week.
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The official statistics only include those accepted as homeless by local authority, and they are mainly households with children.
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They applied to the local authority for accommodation as homeless persons, but were rejected on the ground that they had accommodation.
intentionally
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They would then be tagged as intentionally homeless .
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The court held that they were intentionally homeless and so disqualified.
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It evidently included an assertion that the local authority had wrongly decided that he was intentionally homeless .
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child
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But they were not used to wandering by themselves, in the manner of the later homeless children .
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Even today, most of its 300odd boarders are orphans or homeless children .
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Primary School children from the Oxfordshire village of Standlake have been putting together individual boxes for the thousands of homeless children.
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In fact, 78 percent of the homeless children were under the age of six.
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Including lots of homeless children and adults on the streets, lots of violence and crimes.
family
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The scheme to buy up empty houses and rent them to homeless families will help to solve two problems.
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The town has a growing problem of homeless families with more than 100 on the waiting list.
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He unveiled a radical £750 million package to buy up 20,000 empty houses for the use of homeless families .
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Housing benefit is over budget, partly because of the rise in the number of homeless families having to be expensively bed-and-breakfasted.
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They also include some people from ethnic minorities, homeless and rootless people, homeless families , and substance misusers.
man
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Approaching 1,000 homeless men have been temporarily housed there since it opened.
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Police were interviewing another homeless man who was believed to be in the building at the time of the fire.
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First the day-care center went; then a long-established restaurant; then a shelter for homeless men .
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Apparently they're up to here in woolies, but nobody ever remembers that homeless men need underpants too.
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The stabbings occurred just one night after two homeless men were stabbed several times while they slept only a few blocks away.
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Nearly ninety homeless men staying at Newcastle's palace signed a petition protesting against the food.
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Inside the library, homeless men in every condition take up many of the chairs throughout the building.
people
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Nearly 30 percent were put off by all the homeless people and beggars, up 6 points from 1989.
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She turns away up to 6 homeless people a day.
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Thirty-two homeless or previously homeless people responded to the study by voice mail.
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Now they were told that homeless people from all over New York could be entitled to one of the apartments.
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Councils and housing associations will be allowed to lease or buy empty homes in order to provide accommodation for homeless people .
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We heard that the city was in ruins and that it was filled with thousands of starving, homeless people .
person
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Consider too the vulnerability of the homeless person with no fixed abode.
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Nor did he pledge to provide every homeless person with a warm, clean place to sleep.
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The homeless person was not interested in Peter's box.
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Nevertheless, I sense a growing coldness toward homeless persons , as well as toward welfare recipients in general.
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As you have been informed, my council makes one offer only to homeless persons .
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A statute created an obligation on the defendant council to provide housing for homeless persons .
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This was another case which homeless persons occupying temporary accommodation.
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The homeless persons sought judicial review of that resolution by the local authority.
problem
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But with the growing homeless problem , ministers admit that the attempt has failed.
shelter
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Last month, children accounted for 1, 412 of the 5, 299 people living in homeless shelters in the city.
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Everyone knew that would drive up spending on welfare and homeless shelters .
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They never had enough money, so they lived in various hotels, apartments and homeless shelters .
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They lived in hotels and homeless shelters .
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They enjoyed researching everything from homeless shelters to environmental advocacy groups.
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They lived in a homeless shelter until a room opened up at the Reiss Hotel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The earthquake left thousands of people homeless .
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The possibility that he might become homeless frightened him.
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There is a system of shelters for homeless people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was written, edited, illustrated and compiled by homeless and formerly homeless people in San Francisco.
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Just a few years ago, Tanya was homeless and begging for money in front of a supermarket in New York City.
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One family has been left homeless .
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Pleas that the couple and their two young children will be homeless and facing financial ruin have fallen on deaf ears.
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San Antonio and Seattle were among the 60 percent of cities reporting the length of time people are homeless increased in 1996.
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Thousands of slum-dwellers were killed, and an estimated 100,000 people were made homeless .
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What value is our own home if we can not feel for those who are homeless ?
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Without proper treatment and support, many end up homeless , unemployed for long periods, and cut off from their families.