Example sentences of "social [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fact that introducing people to each other in those circumstances facilitates social contacts is itself a reason for doing so . |
| 2 | According to Gavron 's survey of ninety-six urban housewives , the feeling of being tied to the house.and isolated from meaningful social contacts is a common one for both working-class and middle-class women . |
| 3 | Expectant mothers , for instance , treated in isolation by doctors and hospitals , and without their own female relatives around to help them , flock to childbirth classes where often strong social contacts are made , which may last throughout the period of coping with a young baby and longer . |
| 4 | To do so was paramount ; Mitzi 's social contacts were designed for the purposes of accumulating , lining up , and arming allies . |
| 5 | Bentley 's tastes , knowledge of the arts , and social contacts were of inestimable value to Josiah Wedgwood and his influence was paramount in the international success of the firm . |
| 6 | Their range of social contacts was wider , friends and relatives more likely to be geographically distant . |
| 7 | The idea that , that human beings are a species whose social interactions are very critical , as we know social interactions are also very important to reproductive success , and so I bring in inside this analytic cooperation the idea about deception and the evolution of the unconscious , that press deceivers do n't know that , deceiving . |
| 8 | The idea that , that human beings are a species whose social interactions are very critical , as we know social interactions are also very important to reproductive success , and so I bring in inside this analytic cooperation the idea about deception and the evolution of the unconscious , that press deceivers do n't know that , deceiving . |
| 9 | The rigid rules for turn and turn about social calls are no longer observed . |
| 10 | Masculinization of social institutions is of course not necessarily displayed as overt sexism or discrimination . |
| 11 | Social institutions are interdependent and social stability is achieved through gradual and minor accommodations . |
| 12 | Constructivist rationalism , which Hayek associates with the thought of Descartes , Hobbes , Rousseau , and Bentham , is founded on a belief that social institutions are , or ought to be , the product of deliberate design . |
| 13 | These social institutions are involved when actions of a sexual nature or actions of a violent character have occurred . |
| 14 | The distortions of communication which occur in these social institutions are as they are , as a result , in part , of unconscious activity of groups of people over time . |
| 15 | Societies do change , and their social institutions are not immune to innovation , reform or rebellion . |
| 16 | The major functions of social institutions are those which help to meet the functional prerequisites of society . |
| 17 | Our academic institutions help to maintain a flow of the kind of cultural capital on which our wider social institutions are based . |
| 18 | To what extent does it have rules of debate and procedure ? ) ; we can ask about the degree to which our social institutions are rational ; and we can assess how far society itself is rational . |
| 19 | The 1940s and 1950s saw a great number of ethnographic studies in the British functionalist and structural — functionalist modes , whereby social institutions were analysed in terms of how they maintain the status quo of the particular society . |
| 20 | In order to realize this objective Dewey felt that a fundamental reconstruction of social institutions was required . |
| 21 | The sense of reaction against pre-war social institutions was strong . |
| 22 | It was argued that social acts were essentially motivated behaviour and could be properly understood and explained only in terms of these underlying dispositions . |
| 23 | This brings the discussion back to whether changes in social attitudes are the most effective way of preventing sexual victimization . |
| 24 | This baffled the doctors still further and they concluded that ‘ Social attitudes are decidedly curious on the other side of the Atlantic : prohibition is a state institution but people drink their fill behind closed shutters ; everyone prides himself on his virtue but women wear pessaries against conception . ’ |
| 25 | Dr Tysoe believes that social attitudes are changing . |
| 26 | An attempt to revolutionise social attitudes is no less revolutionary merely because it is subtle . |
| 27 | The fact that professionals share the prevailing social attitudes is underlined by Alison Norman : ‘ The poor image of old age inevitably rubs off on those who are working in this field . |
| 28 | This disparity in social attitudes is certainly reflected in the ambivalent feelings held by retired people . |
| 29 | They were welcome for what they could help China to achieve in practical terms , but their politics and social attitudes were reviled . |
| 30 | Another Director-General whose vision of broadcasting had a major influence in a period of important change in social attitudes was Hugh Greene , who oversaw a more liberal interpretation of ‘ public service ’ in the 1960s . |