Example sentences of "rich [coord] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In this country it is only the older , the inherited rich or a few intellectuals who are relaxed enough to think about the unprivileged .
2 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 .
3 In Britain , where the top 10 house-builders dominate the output of new private houses , it has traditionally been either the rich or the enthusiastic DIY brigade who forged ahead with their own individual home building .
4 For this reason , poverty is closer to our true condition than the much-admired qualities of the rich or the powerful .
5 How a poor man can become rich and a tailor can marry a princess .
6 Its characteristics are personal acquisitiveness , set free by generous tax cuts for the rich and a licensed pursuit of the fast buck ; markets , including foreign exchange , left unfettered to bestow their dynamism on the economy ; a state rolled as far back as is electorally tenable ; and a participatory capitalism , based on profit rather than ownership , where almost anything is a commodity to be traded .
7 American capitalism has always relied on international rivalry and the occasional war to create an artificial community of interest between the rich and the poor .
8 The world divided into the idle rich and the labouring poor .
9 It 's the labouring rich and the idle poor .
10 Every day the split between the rich and the poor gets greater .
11 Allowing that the countryside is the locus of virtue , Leapor makes sweeping though defensible observations on the attitudes of the rich and the power of money .
12 He wrote to the NME : ‘ They are the victims of bathos , and life is mimicking the ultimate economic distinction in the this absurd scene : the rich and the poor , the landed and the lost , the Royal Family — regal and splendid — and The Wedding Present , recently starved , surviving on cheese sandwiches . ’
13 Who first spoke of ‘ two nations , the rich and the poor ’
14 But the circumstances of the Second World War lessened the gap between the privileged and the less privileged on the home front , between the rich and the poor .
15 ‘ The sound is so rich and the pickups are so strong .
16 Disraeli was later to talk of the Two Nations , the Rich and the Poor , who could exist side by side in the same country with no knowledge of each other 's way of life .
17 It exists in every civilised society so that Governments , the rich and the powerful can not abuse their position .
18 Life may be regarded as an austere struggle , blighted by fate , where only the rich and the lucky fare well .
19 As the gap between the rich and the poor was perceived to be widening , students felt this was bad for them and the country as a whole .
20 The challenge of the reformers had been one great reality but the showmen had always been aware of the other reality and that was that very large numbers of ordinary people , and that included the rich and the poor and people from all nations , were fascinated by moving pictures .
21 The divide occurs in all areas , with the rich and the affluent as well as the seedy and derelict .
22 How far such resistance is possible varies according to the research methods employed but , generally speaking , we know more about the poor and the powerless than we do about the rich and the powerful .
23 Both access to housing , and the quality of housing available , structure not only the material divisions between the rich and the poor , but also sexual divisions between men and women .
24 Preston sought anaesthesis in the colour supplement he had brought with him and was distracted for a while by a feature on Great Journeys undertaken or contemplated by the Rich and the Famous .
25 If the aristocracy alone could heal the rift between the two nations , the rich and the poor , into which England had divided , they must , as a first step , quite literally put their own houses in order .
26 Raising his eyes from his mutton , the owner may see inscribed upon his own horizon the acceptable difference between the rich and the poor .
27 It occurred to us that either the gap between the rich and the poor had become much wider than anyone had ever imagined and that these people had not a clue about our reality or else their campaigns were a deliberate conspiracy to cover up the real cause of our appalling health record .
28 The the gulf between the rich and the poor is getting bigger
29 While the demands of the rich and the affluent can be met within the framework of current housing policies , the needs of the poor increasingly can not .
30 However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside .
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