Example sentences of "[art] poor [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 3 | Colleagues the G M B should resist the tax on the poor on the victims of Tory policy . |
| 4 | The scale of private charity expanded remarkably in the mid-nineteenth century and offered considerable protection to the poor against the rigours of the Poor Law . |
| 5 | The village school attended by my father was a Church school : it had been founded and was originally funded by the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church ( was there ever a more eloquent title ? ) . |
| 6 | Valentine 's pertinent comments about the origins of different behaviour originating in structural constraints which excluded the poor from the life-styles of the more affluent have lost none of their force , but any consideration of everyday life in Cramlington and North Shields has to address the issue of different and distinctive life-styles which are none the less embedded in a common cultural matrix . |