Example sentences of "[noun] for the rich [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revised economic blueprint called for $200,000 million in new investment in cities , training and infrastructure , to be financed by spending cuts and higher taxes for the rich and for corporations . |
| 2 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 3 | In Teheran thousands of workers spent their days building villas or even palaces for the rich and their nights in hovels or holes in the ground . |
| 4 | In common with the financial markets in which they invest their funds , they are essentially short-term in their outlook , and would rather invest in secure compounds for the rich than extra public spending on the improvement of housing , education and job prospects in the urban ghettos that occasionally trouble them . |
| 5 | David designs for the rich and famous ; his companions work in the art world . |
| 6 | One law for the rich and another for the poor , as the two systems can be made to seem , are laid down together in a book which commemorates a desertion , on the author 's part , of the rich for the poor . |
| 7 | ‘ One law for the rich and another for the poor ’ is an old saying which is certainly true of the way the law is enforced . |
| 8 | Sitting here as a British judge it is my duty to tell you that this is not a country in which there is one law for the rich and another for the poor . |
| 9 | Alongside wealth had come materialism and with it injustice , the oppression of the poor , bribery and corruption and the abuse of the legal system by the wealthy — with one law for the rich and another for the poor . |
| 10 | Legal aid , in the words of The Laws of Scotland : the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia , is society 's response to the criticism that there is one law for the rich and one law for the poor . |
| 11 | Not not quite a law for the rich and law for the poor , |
| 12 | Nevis is one of the most popular holiday destinations for the rich and famous . |
| 13 | Determined to make the house a Mecca for the rich and famous , he decorated it elaborately and expensively . |
| 14 | It was both a health resort and a winter retreat for the rich and influential of the day . |
| 15 | It had been described as an exclusive enclave for the rich and privileged , an escapist 's paradise , a tropical slice of heaven on earth … and so the praise went on . |
| 16 | Finally abandoning M3 , the medium-term financial strategy , and other totems , he strongly urged major cuts in public expenditure and extensive cuts in personal taxation to offer incentives for the rich or the would-be rich . |