Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] social [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible for social inequality to exist without social strata . |
| 2 | It is therefore perfectly possible for social care to be provided in an ordinary household with rehabilitation and personal development as its main purpose ; in other words , the therapy itself is of a social care nature . |
| 3 | Historians lack the skills , or the evidence can not exist , to settle in any precise way the question of why and how conditions of war seem propitious for social reform . |
| 4 | Consistent with his view that science was a special form of knowledge potentially free of social determination , Merton initiated the sociological study of science . |
| 5 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 6 | What is , I mean what is being discussed it seems to me is , is a , is a dilemma that has been debated ever since people became interested in social change , |
| 7 | ‘ THE BLUSHY , double-jointed dandy flirts with under-age prostitution , more interested in social despair than the everyday details . |
| 8 | Additionally , assuming we are interested in social welfare , the manager 's pay should be made a function of that , if possible . |
| 9 | More recently , writers interested in social mobility ( the movement of individuals and groups up and down the social scale ) have studied rates of social mobility in different societies in an attempt to discover its causes , especially in relation to the process of industrialization . |
| 10 | Readers interested in social policy should not be put off by the disciplinary context of geography : in many respects present-day geography is the next-door neighbour of social policy studies . |
| 11 | In other words science is seen by Parsons to be free from social determination as long as it is not penetrated by secondary selectivity or ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 12 | All of these features have combined to create the contemporary problem ; hooliganism exemplifies to perfection the difficulty of disentangling what is new from what is old in social history . |
| 13 | All of these features have combined to create the contemporary problem ; hooliganism exemplifies to perfection the difficulty of disentangling what is new from what is old in social history . |
| 14 | And why I sit here , husbandless , dependent upon social security supplemented by such pitiful amounts of money as I can wring out of the national press , and Bernard genuflects once more , fled back to his baptismal church , terrified by the very notion of living outside it . |
| 15 | Weber there distinguishes between Erklären , or the kind of causal explanation proper to natural science , and Verstehen , or the kind of understanding proper to social science . |
| 16 | Many social services developments as well as the joint National Health Service/Housing Association projects were similarly dependent on social security benefits for their viability . |
| 17 | The effect of this sort of denial of disability on ageist grounds is that older people with disabilities are among the most deprived groups dependent on social security . |
| 18 | Many of their parents are unemployed , on low incomes or dependent on social security ; many live in overcrowded conditions in poor quality housing or have long-standing health problems . |
| 19 | These circumstances are found more often amongst poorer groups in society — single-parent households , those in lower-paid occupations , large families , those dependent on social security benefits , and so on — and , whilst it is at times difficult to determine patterns of cause and effect in such situations , structural and environmental factors are clearly of great importance in being able to care for children . |
| 20 | By abuse here 1 mean not only illegal uses of violence by those who are in defined circumstances entitled to use force , but the legal use of force where the objectives are antithetical to social order or for some other reasons morally objectionable . |
| 21 | It is appropriate to talk of ‘ marginalization ’ and ‘ peripheralization ’ because these terms are descriptive of social process , but the underclass model reduces capitalism to a description and confines action to moral outrage and good will . |
| 22 | It is particularly appropriate for social work practice with vulnerable elderly people . |
| 23 | They called themselves the Rejects , and they were very picky about social status . |
| 24 | It may not be easy for social work training to take account of this adequately but it is highly desirable that more attention should be paid , in the making of a social worker , to the sexual side of his or her personality and sexual adjustment . |
| 25 | The Polish peasants were at best , he thought , poor , lazy and dirty , exceptionally ignorant , negligent of social obligation and therefore of little use to either the military or industry in any civilised and modern state . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , her sparing detail is invariably more fully indicative of social change than that of her more prolix contemporaries . |
| 27 | In 1921 the government was clearly still fearful of social unrest . |
| 28 | This stress on authority and hierarchy is , Eccleshall contends , understandable given that ‘ from Restoration absolutism to the Thatcherite preoccupation with law and order Conservatives have always been fearful of social indiscipline ’ . |
| 29 | Consequently state power is distinct from social power in liberal democracies . |
| 30 | The very ubiquity of the mass media removes media as a whole system from the scope of positivist social analysis ; for how may we ‘ measure ’ the ‘ impact ’ of a social force which is omnipresent within social life and which has a great deal to do with constituting it ? |