Example sentences of "[prep] ageing be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic questions about ageing are seen by them to have an explicitly political dimension because the state , being the major determinant of the economic status of the elderly population , is regarded as capable ( and culpable ) of creating a new sort of deliberately structured dependency among old people . |
| 2 | As indicated earlier the most persistent of all stereotypes about ageing is that the later phases of the life cycle are a time of universal , and inevitable , biological decline . |
| 3 | In our society , such ritual celebrations of changes of status through ageing are now restricted to religious occasions like baptism , confirmation and burial , though ‘ coming-of-age ’ parties amount to the same thing . |
| 4 | This constant reinforcement of the awfulness of ageing is not universal . |
| 5 | The most obvious sign of ageing is through our skin tissues . |
| 6 | Evidence for the importance of both causes of ageing is emerging , and unravelling their relative importance presents experimentalists with a major challenge . |
| 7 | The rate of ageing is highly variable . |
| 8 | The critical requirement for the evolution of ageing is that there be a distinction between a parent individual and the smaller offspring for which it provides . |
| 9 | Although practically all the issues discussed in this paper are of universal concern , it would clearly be mistaken to imply that the subjective experience of ageing is the same for men and women , or for people of different races and cultures . |
| 10 | Their experience of ageing is compared not only with that of other indigenous elderly people , but also with urban incomers . |
| 11 | The experience of ageing is influenced as much by social and psychological factors as by physical processes . |
| 12 | Second , just as the onset of disability can not be seen as a one-off life event , neither can the intervening impact of ageing be considered as a self-contained life event , or even a series of discrete life events . |
| 13 | However , the association of the nomadic plasmids with ageing is probably more general . |
| 14 | Sex differences in ageing are examined . |
| 15 | My attitude to ageing is that it 's inevitable so there 's very little you can do about it . |
| 16 | Decline due to ageing is nearly always imperceptible , noted only when comparing present ability with that of many years past . |
| 17 | As stated earlier , subjective responses to ageing are also shaped by social and material resources . |
| 18 | Medical opinion is another influential source of dominant social attitudes , and its views on ageing are central to the expectations we have about the ‘ normal ’ condition of older people . |
| 19 | The importance of a ‘ lifetime perspective ’ on ageing is being increasingly recognized . |
| 20 | The Centre for Policy on Ageing is primarily a research organization funding inquiries into the needs of old people . |