Example sentences of "society [vb -s] [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , British society has been characterized by significant ‘ sub-national ’ cultures — Scottish , Welsh , Irish — which are interwoven with linguistic and religious differences . |
| 2 | The inevitability of professional and expert administration and management of the collectivized economy and society has been accepted by communist regimes . |
| 3 | Aware that society has been constructed by able-bodied people in ways which serve and perpetuate their own interests , these people have used our consequential marginalisation and dependence not as a starting-point for developing with us a struggle for social change and equal opportunities , but as a handy and convenient fact to justify the development of all the inappropriate disability services with which we are now so familiar . |
| 4 | In recent years the increasingly rigid age division of British society has been underpinned by social security , including pensions , policy . |
| 5 | From 1650 onwards , in partial imitation of Hobbes , a variety of authors managed in their different ways to transform the biblical thesis that civilization reflects a decline from a pristine state of grace into a cynical doctrine which declares that the observed condition of man in society has been superimposed by social restraints or cultural conditioning upon a pre-human condition of animality in which " man " was a solitary brute devoid of any kind of natural humanity . |