Example sentences of "[adj] social [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avoiding Polish-style " shock therapy " , however , the budget covered expanded social services and higher welfare payments . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The far-reaching social impacts of Britain 's prolonged economic recession have yet to be studied in detail by social scientists . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In January 1912 he organized a conference of like-minded Social Democrats in Prague . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Such criteria must be viewed in context with far less quantifiable social factors and a consideration of the officially indefinable ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 13 | These pilot studies are often of immense value in the design of more systematic and more extensive social surveys . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It may be argued , though I think with difficulty , that there is no important difference between the modern welfare state and the nineteenth-century ‘ night watchman ’ state , in so far as it is still an instrument of bourgeois domination ; or that the welfare state — involving a high level of government intervention in the economy , the provision of extensive social services and a considerable degree of national economic planning — corresponds with a new stage in the development of capitalism , which may be called ‘ organized capitalism ’ ; or finally , that the welfare state is a particular stage in a general trend toward collectivism , inspired mainly by the labour movement , and from this aspect can be regarded as a transitional stage on the way to socialism . |
| 16 | A particular characteristic of a state in which extensive social policies have been adopted is that it is a bureaucratic state . |
| 17 | This generates a number of economic changes which because of the overlap of social , economic , political and religious systems in rural communities , have extensive social repercussions . |
| 18 | After the usual social exchanges we got down to business explaining the range of counselling that we could give and the various reasons why we thought it was important to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 19 | She cares little for appearance and does not abide by the usual social rules . |
| 20 | After her husband 's departure , Margaret had been feeling very miserable and frustrated , was having difficulty concentrating at work and had been avoiding her usual social contacts . |
| 21 | While acknowledging Bull 's need to economise in light of its losses last year , the representative said the union will insist on the usual social payments to employees leaving voluntarily . |
| 22 | For what may be ‘ bossiness ’ in the home can turn out to be a valuable contribution of efficiency and ‘ drive ’ in a different setting , working with a team of strangers , where the usual social restraints keep it under reasonable control . |
| 23 | Her true instinct was always to work behind the usual social frameworks : family , connections , position , conventions , those established forms that can be used like weapons when they are mastered . |
| 24 | ‘ Her true instinct was always to work behind the usual social frameworks : family , connections , position , conventions , those established forms that can be used like weapons when they are mastered . |
| 25 | All the usual social suspects were there , including Princess Firyal of Jordan , who had just returned from Acapulco where she visited Ricky and Sandra di Portanova in their permanent tent . |
| 26 | As usual social workers must be at the forefront of confronting what everyone else — including the Secretary of State — prefers to ignore . |
| 27 | The Nationality Acts and the revision of entry rules and procedures for example perpetuate the association between blackness and ‘ alien invaders ’ bringing unnecessary social problems with them . |
| 28 | Will my right hon. Friend ensure that the message goes out from British trade missions throughout the United States to American firms contemplating investing in Britain that we operate an open free market economy with low taxation and that we have no intention of introducing unnecessary social costs which would make business less competitive ? |
| 29 | Throughout their lives most women play less prestigious social roles than men , and their paid work is generally worse paid , less secure , and of lower status . |
| 30 | Since his answers are relatively familiar , we need not recapitulate them here , though it is worth noting that Marx resisted the tendency , which elsewhere grew constantly more powerful , to separate economic analysis from its historic social contexts . |