Example sentences of "social [noun sg] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most central differences between the conventional literary artist and the journalist or social scientist is the very different nature of the truth which they claim to serve . |
| 2 | He suggested that the main cause of social differentiation was the increase in population density . |
| 3 | The managed mixed economy and a highly developed system of collective social provision were the means for achieving these values . |
| 4 | Social circumstances and social change is the task of the rest of this book . |
| 5 | If the assembly council decides to report to next year 's general assembly that the Board of Social Responsibility is the best of all possible places for this work in training and advising ministers and others on health and healing , then we 'll happily accept that . |
| 6 | At the top of the social pyramid was the aristocracy , large landowners whose families had long served Moscow ( the boyars ) and ex-appanage princes who had gradually been drawn to the metropolis . |
| 7 | I have been elaborating the point , made much earlier on , that one of the really basic features of human thinking as it affects social action is the polarization of " we " versus " they " . |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONS ( SOCIAL ) — The basic social institution is the family . |
| 9 | Finally , in this brief introduction , what of the unflattering charge that social anthropology is the ‘ child of imperialism ’ ( some would say bastard ) and so carries an incapacitating stigma ? |
| 10 | In terms of anthropological theory , this chapter , taken as a whole , may be considered an elaboration of Radcliffe-Brown 's formula that the core of social anthropology is the study of society considered as " a structure of person to person relationships " . |
| 11 | Mutual aid , the practice of religion and social intercourse were the principal activities . |
| 12 | Adult cats occasionally groom one another , but the most common form of social grooming is the licking of kittens by their mother . |
| 13 | It is extraordinary how few professional organisations have a code of ethics like social works : ‘ Basic to the profession of social work is the recognition of the value and dignity of every human being irrespective of origin , race , status , sex , sexual orientation , age , belief or contribution to society . |
| 14 | One needs to focus on what one is trying to achieve even in brief interactions for all social work is the better for being planned and evaluated . |
| 15 | An influential model in North American social work is the Strengths model ( sometimes called the ‘ independence from welfare ’ model ) developed by Charles Rapp and colleagues in Lawrence , Kansas ( Rapp and Chamberlain , 1985 ; Rapp and Wintersteen , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | In the countryside this was natural since this social grouping was the focus of local communication and leadership , but in Derry it meant that the Nationalist leadership was drawn too heavily from one social group . |
| 17 | This is where the action is and where social mobility is the norm rather than the exception . |
| 18 | This predominantly one-directional social mobility was the pattern up until the quadrupling of oil prices in the winter of 1973 — 4 , an event which , for the purposes of this book , is accepted as marking the end of the post-war period in Britain . |
| 19 | One of the most characteristic signals of a cat entering or leaving a social group is the raising of its tail . |
| 20 | His very social nature is the source of conflicts and antagonisms that create resistance to socialization by the norms of the societies which have existed in the course of human history . |
| 21 | Age discrimination in retirement and social security are the main foundation on which discrimination against older people is based . |
| 22 | By providing income , social security is the most effective means of tackling want . |
| 23 | Social security is the main source of income for two thirds of lone parent families , and one in eight two-parent families ( see Table 4 ) . |
| 24 | One of the qualities of jade that contributed most to social harmony was the musical nature of the notes it emitted when struck . |
| 25 | The final formal social event was the dinner at which Mr Sapronov invited Dr Jeffery to visit Khmelnitski . |
| 26 | The basis of his account of social development is the distinction between different economic structures or modes of production — comprising ‘ forces ’ , or technical means , of production and ‘ social relations ’ of production , which include the distribution of the means of production ( property ) and of the product , as well as the social division of labour — to which different forms of society and the state correspond . |
| 27 | A major flaw of the liberal discourse of fifties ' social realism is the attempt to explain away racism by locating prejudice in individuals , often already pathologised others , such as working-class youth or sexually frustrated women . |
| 28 | For the Piaroa , the ideal of social maturity is the same for men and women ; it is one of controlled tranquillity . |
| 29 | Another social factor is the whole thing about foreign holidays being seen as somehow superior . |
| 30 | Another complicating social factor is the change in working patterns . |