Example sentences of "[adj] social [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Junior social security minister Alistair Burt said payments would be extended to cover absences of up to six weeks due to admission to hospital , and up to three weeks for other reasons such as holidays . |
| 2 | Within hours of junior social security minister Ann Widdecombe ruling out special payments for the elderly — ‘ why is it special ? ’ — Major was telling her boss Peter Lilley and others to come up with a solution . |
| 3 | An example of a community health program that has adapted Freire 's philosophy and methodology is an adolescent Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention program ( ASAP ) , alternatively called the Adolescent Social Action Program ( Wallerstein and Bernstein , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Avoiding Polish-style " shock therapy " , however , the budget covered expanded social services and higher welfare payments . |
| 5 | Elsewhere they were associated with a spontaneous and far-reaching social revolution in which the moving spirits were the CNT , the left wing of the UGT and , in Catalonia , the POUM — a small but vigorous anti-Stalinist communist party . |
| 6 | This attitude was also responsible for a new horological invention that was ultimately to be of far-reaching social significance . |
| 7 | The movement into the work-force by married women has been one of the most startling and far-reaching social changes since the Second World War . |
| 8 | This reflects the fact that the very far-reaching social changes that have overtaken the English countryside in recent decades have been rooted first and foremost in changes within the agricultural industry — the decline of the landed estates , the technological revolution in farming , the drift from the land of agricultural workers , and so on . |
| 9 | This is less so today in rapidly changing societies where great efforts are made to adapt and modify social institutions ; indeed , it is plausible to suppose that the roots of sociology lie in the experience of rapid and far-reaching social change . |
| 10 | The far-reaching social impacts of Britain 's prolonged economic recession have yet to be studied in detail by social scientists . |
| 11 | The SPD accordingly took over Lower Saxony 's five seats in the Bundesrat ( upper house of the federal parliament ) to have a total of 27 seats , with the result that the government CDU-Christian Social Union ( CSU ) -Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) coalition , now with 18 seats , lost what had been a one-seat majority . |
| 12 | An economic boom developed in the spring of 1919 , but this only lasted a year and when the Bank Rate was hoisted to 7 per cent in April 1920 , the short-lived social reform programme was terminated . |
| 13 | Walker ( 1981 ) draws particular attention to poverty in old age , arguing that it is ‘ primarily a function of low economic and social status prior to retirement and the depressed social status of the retired , and , secondly of the relatively low level of state benefits ’ . |
| 14 | Poverty in old age is a function , first , of low economic and social status prior to retirement , which restricts access to a wide range of resources ; and , secondly , of the imposition of depressed social status through the process of retirement itself . |
| 15 | This project will develop ways of finding out about and of learning from non-governmental social support arrangements among villagers in China , the largest developing country in the world . |
| 16 | But the effort was renewed and in 1900 Plekhanov 's group , augmented by younger recruits , set up Iskra ( The Spark ) , an émigré journal designed as a rallying-point for like-minded Social Democrats . |
| 17 | But in 1900 Plekhanov 's group , augmented by Lenin and Martov , set up Iskra , an émigré journal designed as a rallying point for like-minded Social Democrats . |
| 18 | In January 1912 he organized a conference of like-minded Social Democrats in Prague . |
| 19 | One of the most striking social norms of all the hunting peoples was sharing of the spoils of the hunt among all members of the community , even if they had played no part in the hunt — a practice to which the Evenki term nimat is often applied . |
| 20 | [ doc 5 ] He was also determined to turn the role of President of the Board of Trade ( at this time a junior post well under the control of the Treasury ) to his advantage by introducing striking social legislation . |
| 21 | In 1938 , when the Spens report elaborated the demands for reform which had been expressed throughout the interwar years , the educational system was clearly having undesirable social effects . |
| 22 | To save on personnel and consequently to minimize undesirable social contact , the original Metropolitan Commissioners had submitted the personal qualities of ‘ forbearance ’ and ‘ calm demeanour ’ as the major responses to the threat , as the inhibiters of opposition , and as a substitute for colleague support . |
| 23 | While we must get closer to the market , the proposals continue to ignore the reality of market forces in a misguided attempt to solve undesirable social objectives . |
| 24 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |
| 25 | At these levels , the complex variation which encodes rich social meanings to insiders simply becomes progressively more and more redundant : it is no longer functional for these mobile people . |
| 26 | It was a far cry from her naïve and youthful engagement to Philippe — two constrained and formal lovers from the same highly respectable social background . |
| 27 | Such criteria must be viewed in context with far less quantifiable social factors and a consideration of the officially indefinable ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 28 | These pilot studies are often of immense value in the design of more systematic and more extensive social surveys . |
| 29 | In retrospect , the public recognition of child abuse as an extensive social phenomenon can be seen to have caused a break in the policy tradition under which child care services had been developed since the Second World War . |
| 30 | The evidence in support of these allegations was vague and in the event unsubstantiated despite in extensive Social Services investigation which ran parallel to the Statementing procedures . |