Example sentences of "[art] poor ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snell has suggested that this sense of right was sufficiently marked to make expectations from the Poor Law part of the " moral economy " which Edward Thompson has applied to the poor 's expectation that corn would be sold to them at " just " prices . |
| 2 | A system that had been designed to exclude the poor 's income from the payment of tax , was reshaped in such a way that , although the poor continued to enjoy exemption on their low income , the same privilege was extended to similar bands of income for all other taxpayers . |
| 3 | The poor 's entitlement to relief depended upon their having a settlement in the parish . |
| 4 | This suggests that the constant complaints of their social superiors , that the poor 's expenditure was irrationally related to their incomes , were not simply class prejudice . |
| 5 | That Pounds in Wine of the Poor 's Money flew , |
| 6 | Henry Fielding was one of those who was annoyed by the poor 's presumption in this regard . |
| 7 | It is not because of the poor 's isolation from the modern sector that they remain poor , but because they provide a cheap human resource for that sector . |
| 8 | Miller considered that the cultivation of madder in England would employ labourers , usually idle from the end of harvest until spring , and thus parishes would be eased of the Poor 's Rate , ‘ a consideration worthy of public attention ’ . |