Example sentences of "for the poor [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first charity began in 1659 , when Simon Smith gave by his will £5 , the interest of six shillings to provide bread for the poor on Easter Day . |
| 2 | Conservative Anglicans , unable to endorse its open approach in matters of religion , founded a rival organisation in 1811 : the National Society for the Provision of Education for the Poor on the Principles of the Established Church . |
| 3 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 4 | In 1575 , he built Almshouses for the poor at East Greenwich , the first of their kind founded by a Protestant at a cost of more than £2,700 , and in 1581 , he published another work on the Duties of Constables , Borsholders , Tythingmen and other law and Lay ministers of the Peace . |
| 5 | ‘ I pay enough for the poor with my taxes , ’ he said , ‘ so why should n't I be able to make use of them in my work ? |
| 6 | The Wesleyan mission had been started in 1886 by the old boys of The Leys School as a settlement for the poor of Finsbury and it had the usual assortment of activities such as clubs , bands , and concerts . |
| 7 | By the end of the day the swear bag , as it is called , contained £25.35 for the poor of Adel . |
| 8 | Originally established in 1889 to ‘ provide for the poor of the neighbourhood … nursing in their own homes in maternity and other cases ’ ( Plaistow Maternity Hospital 1903 ) , it charged no fee for the attendance of a midwife where the husband 's wage was less than 21 shillings . |
| 9 | In Haiti in the early hours of 2 July 1990 Mariano Delaunay , founder of a night school for the poor of Port-au-Prince , was standing on a pavement outside the house where he was attending a friend 's wake . |
| 10 | His brother-in-law wrote in a memoir that on his return to Turvey in 1829 , Higgins was ‘ unremitting in his solicitude for the poor of the parish ’ . |
| 11 | The Assistance Publique originates from the middle ages and was , until around 1960 , essentially an organisation to provide health and social care of all kinds for the poor of Paris — including , for example , provision for abandoned children and material assistance to those in need . |
| 12 | Assistance Publique 's responsibility as the community hospital system for the poor of Paris is constantly in danger of being overwhelmed by its newer role as the country 's leading provider of tertiary referral services . |
| 13 | The graduated fill allows you to choose a number of colours in the fill , not just two , which means it is a great facility for the poor of taste to prove their shortcomings . |
| 14 | It placed responsibility for the poor upon each parish , with the requirement , under the Acts of Settlement , that the itinerant poor should be returned , if necessary , to their parishes of origin . |
| 15 | Life in the great cities in general could be improved , and only will be improved , by public action — by better schools with better-paid teachers , by strong , well-financed welfare services , by counselling on drug addiction , by employment training , by public investment in the housing that in no industrial country is provided for the poor by private enterprise , by adequately supported recreational facilities , libraries and police . |
| 16 | This did not automatically lead all in influential circles to conclude that there was a need for provision for the poor by the state . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But we have consciously searched for the poor in spirit , and found them in many different situations . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Raising money to support CAFOD 's work for the poorest in the world is one way in which schools are involved . |
| 29 | contribution rule for the poorest in the community and , thirdly , for devising and implementing the wretched tax in the first place ? |