Example sentences of "[prep] the poor in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But policies intended for the poor in general , which are politically more acceptable than those designed for specific racial groups , will aim at a big section of blacks too . |
| 2 | But we have consciously searched for the poor in spirit , and found them in many different situations . |
| 3 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 4 | Dr Neil — he 's Stair Cochrane 's younger brother — he works for the poor in an East End practice — ’ Her voice almost broke when she said his name , and her mama knew immediately that Sally-Anne was not telling them the whole truth about her East End adventures . |
| 5 | Casey had been one of the most prominent Irish bishops for 23 years and was a well-known campaigner for the poor in Ireland and the Third World . |
| 6 | Thus the major impact of the conference on me was to feel some of the actual consequences of debt for the poor in countries such as Brazil , Kenya , Jamaica and the Philippines . |
| 7 | The study population consisted of 6-month-old and 9-month-old childen who , between October , 1990 , and April , 1991 , attended a large primary health-care centre for the poor in Abidjan. ‘ 9-month-old children ’ entered the trial consecutively , at the time of their visit to the clinic for routine measles vaccination with standard-dose Schwarz measles vaccine . |
| 8 | If there are substantial doubts as to whether the provision of charity schools was ever sufficiently widespread , directed or differentiated from earlier , or later , efforts to have constituted a special movement , there is none that school provision for the poor in the middle and later years of the century remained uneven and spasmodic . |
| 9 | He became the first Earl of Iveagh , and set up the Guinness and Iveagh Trusts which provided homes for the poor in Dublin and London , and made substantial contributions to Trinity College and Dublin hospitals . |
| 10 | If there is commitment to doing theological reflection with and for the poor in the North , then the experience of overseas people is only sometimes relevant . |
| 11 | Raising money to support CAFOD 's work for the poorest in the world is one way in which schools are involved . |
| 12 | contribution rule for the poorest in the community and , thirdly , for devising and implementing the wretched tax in the first place ? |
| 13 | These distinguished prints are divided into eight parts , ranging through The Poor in Paris , Manet and Spain , Paris Spectacle , Olympia , Portraits , War and Commune ( referring to the FrancoPrussian war of 1871–2 ) , Japonisme ( the theme of an exhibition in Sunderland a year or two ago ) and La Parisienne . |
| 14 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 15 | CARE was formed in 1946 and helps the poorest of the poor in 38 countries in Africa , Asia and South America . |
| 16 | The village school attended by my father was a Church school : it had been founded and was originally funded by the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church ( was there ever a more eloquent title ? ) . |
| 17 | The overseers of the poor in Frome must have asked themselves very much this same question ; at one time or another something between a quarter and a half of the population of Britain were to receive parish relief in the late 18th century — and the £l , 970 per annum it was costing for such relief in Frome in 1792 would rise to a staggering £11,723 per annum by 1831 . |
| 18 | The House of Industry was established by an Act of Parliament of George III , 1794 , ‘ … for the better regulation and employment of the poor in the town of Bedford ’ . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the crowding together of the poor in slums was seen to be dangerous — debilitating to health and facilitating possibly seditious communication of the kind which had led to the riots in Trafalgar Square in 1886 . |
| 20 | One of the terms of the Economic Opportunity Act required " the maximum feasible participation " of the poor in all programmes . |
| 21 | Schemes include Enterprise 5 's transformation of the Old Customs House and Sailor 's Home on the New Quay into yuppie flats and , something which is quite bizarre , the redevelopment of the old Bell St Tenements on the fish quay , originally built for the poorest of the poor in the 1920s , as posh flats . |
| 22 | Much more will be said of the houses of the poor in chapter 3 , but the basic contrast can be readily tested — one has only to compare the range of interiors in the novels of Richardson or Jane Austen with the range in almost any one of Dickens 's novels . |
| 23 | It is the domestic courage and creativity of the poor in the most adverse circumstances that is usually emphasized . |
| 24 | Joe was interested in John 's tales of his time in Spain , but when he spoke angrily about the condition of the poor in Liverpool , Joe said mildly that he thought things were improving . |
| 25 | In June 1883 he was appointed as parliamentary secretary to the Local Government Board ; his investigations of the London slums were partly responsible for the appointment of a royal commission on the housing of the poor in 1884 . |
| 26 | Duncan submitted evidence to the inquiry into the corporation of Liverpool ( 1833 ) , the commission on the condition of the poor in Ireland ( 1836 report ) , and the House of Commons ' select committee on the health of towns ( 1840 ) , detailing the deplorable ‘ sanitary state of the labouring classes ’ in Liverpool , whose population was rapidly increasing , principally by migration from Ireland and elsewhere . |
| 27 | Furber was an overseer of the poor in the parish of St Mary Abbots , Kensington , in 1718 , and a churchwarden in 1725–6 and 1736–7 . |
| 28 | The numbers change but the plight of the poor in the Third World is still the greatest issue of our times . |
| 29 | Recent comparative studies of social security beneficiaries in the OECD area has shown that lone parents constitute a significant and growing proportion of the poor in member countries . |
| 30 | We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it . |