Example sentences of "work among the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its purpose was to train and examine the proficiency of candidates for work among the deaf . |
| 2 | From this change , it is said , followed another change , from prescribing as the cure more self-help and hard work among the poor , to recognition of the need for government intervention to support the poor in an economic situation over which they had little control ; from ‘ individualism ’ to ‘ collectivism ’ as it is often put . |
| 3 | Many of the medical supporters of the legislation had a history of involvement in hospital and sanitary work among the poor , as local medical officers and poor law doctors — work which reinforced their commitment to the acts as part of the wider politics of public health . |
| 4 | Son of a provincial clergyman , with a background of work among the poor at the Islington Dispensary , he specialized in venereology as medical consultant to the London Lock Hospital and as an externe to the Female Venereal Hospital in Paris . |
| 5 | Elizabeth Kell , wife of a Unitarian minister in Southampton , and Mrs Hampson of Plymouth were both extensively concerned with work among the poor . |
| 6 | Pakistan 's immigration records show that about 2,800 Arab volunteers are still in the country , including 500 involved in relief work among the Afghan refugees in Peshawar . |
| 7 | Perennial favourites included ‘ overlapping ’ in towns and villages and , tied to this , the creation of ‘ Free Church parishes ’ , urban work among the unchurched millions , the role of women in Nonconformist church life ( there was very little ) , the need for house-to-house surveys , the present state of the Church of England ( normally the increasing power of the Ritualists and their threat to England 's ‘ Protestant heritage ’ ) and political questions such as land redistribution in the villages or , especially , education . |
| 8 | With one look at me , he went to his work among the sick . |