Example sentences of "poor [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By and large , he was saying what most ordinary people think : that it is not a good idea for very young girls to embark on motherhood , especially if they are poor or a bit dim . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was a boy in Harlan County we were real poor and every morning I used to wake up and look out of my bedroom window at this mountain called Gray 's Knob . |
| 3 | ‘ Aah served a year at mi last place , ’ went on Lamb , ‘ but t'food was poor and a man ca n't work on an empty belly . ’ |
| 4 | Production standards in Zambian television were poor and the service relied heavily on imported material . |
| 5 | But by focusing on a particular selection of empirical evidence , the book seems to shift the blame from the poor and the underclass to women and to their lack of available , acceptable marriage partners . |
| 6 | Unfortunately too , the translation is sometimes poor and the text layout cramped . |
| 7 | ‘ This can lead to judgements being made about the unsuccessful , the unemployed , the poor and the unintelligent which are both uncharitable and untrue . |
| 8 | This can lead to judgements being made about the unsuccessful , the unemployed , the poor and the unintelligent which are both uncharitable and untrue . |
| 9 | This can lead to judgements being made about the unsuccessful , the unemployed , the poor and the unintelligent , which are both uncharitable and untrue . ’ |
| 10 | This can lead to judgements being made about the unsuccessful , the unemployed , the poor and the unintelligent which are both uncharitable and untrue . |
| 11 | Like most screening operations , the yield was poor and the significance of the positive findings was limited . |
| 12 | Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period . |
| 13 | Generally , links with other services are poor and the contribution that doctors and nurses can make to specific treatment is entirely lost . |
| 14 | Many thinkers such as Owen , Fourier , Saint-Simon and Blanc saw the root of injustice as the competitive system of free markets , which led them to argue that the gulf between rich and poor and the exploitation of the one by the other , would not be abolished until some form of socialist state was established . |
| 15 | It is estimated that there are 7,000 inmates in Britain 's prisons requiring specific help for mental disorder , and while it is possible for prisoners to receive psychiatric treatment from visiting consultants while in prison , facilities on the whole are poor and the environment is far from conducive to improving a person 's mental state . |
| 16 | Ruether 's interest ( as that also of Bultmann ) is in Jesus ' message , a message in her case held to concern the coming of the kingdom , the vindication of the poor and the creation of a just social order . |
| 17 | There is a strong correlation between those who rate their health as poor and the prevalence of chronic health problems ( see Table 6.3 ) . |
| 18 | At the lower levels their aim was to promote aid from less unfortunate households to the poor and the starving . |
| 19 | He denounced the immoralities which had prevailed in Northumbrian society since the days of King Aelfwald and contrasted the adornments of dress and hair and the luxurious standard of living of Aethelred 's court-circle with an absence of concern for the poor and the starving . |
| 20 | In spite of the simplicity of their upbringing , however , they were resourceful , and found other rooms , though poor and the food not good . |
| 21 | His concern for the Dunsden poor and the compassion of his war poetry are at odds with a remark he made to his mother at the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 22 | ‘ They persuade the poor and the low paid to play this game — leaving them exposed to massive fines and levies , ’ Mr Davies said . |
| 23 | The Chicago School employed ethnographic methods of data collection , and produced accounts of the lives of a wide variety of social groups , though with an emphasis on the poor and the deviant . |
| 24 | Though stations were built on the main line west of Paddington after its opening in 1838 the initial suburban service was poor and the passenger receipts small . |
| 25 | Just as Ella had cared for the poor and the prostitute whom no one had wanted to know so Eva began to appreciate feelings she had only known before in her work in Africa . |
| 26 | Overjoyed at having a recognised part to play , he taught the Scriptures , but spent most of his time assisting the poor and the ailing . |
| 27 | ‘ Craigbarnet I know is poor and the interest of his friends might be of service , ’ the duke remarked , ‘ but do you know that he was att Sheriff Moor , how would that sound here ? ’ |
| 28 | Alternatively , if the relocation package is poor but the redundancy package generous , few staff will opt to move , leading to many redundancy claims and a recruitment and training problem when the company moves to the new area . |
| 29 | The sound is poor but the spirit of the music is there . |
| 30 | Finally , if an animal is coping with extremely adverse conditions by self-narcotisation , I would say that its welfare is poor but the effect of the narcotic may mean that it is not suffering . |