Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] social [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably the most decisive argument for the free personal social services is that most of their recipients are already so poor that charges bring little revenue . |
| 2 | Some Latin American social scientists working on the topic have suggested a two-stage process , in which the penetration of capitalism initially leads to an increase in wage-earning workers , but this is followed by a stage of the intensification of capitalism , characterised by deproletarianisation and semi-proletarianisation ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
| 3 | The dependency metatheory , created by a group of Latin American social scientists , came to prominence in the 1960s and , despite formidable criticism since then , has obstinately refused to disappear . |
| 4 | It was strengthened by the historical development of Latin American social structures . |
| 5 | At the same time , however , these so-called urban social movements represented in Castells 's eyes a threat to the state and its spending . |
| 6 | Large generic social services departments , which arose from the proposals from the Seebohm Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services ( 1968 ) were set up at this time . |
| 7 | On the former point yesterday 's Old Bailey judgment says a lot about contemporary British social mores . |
| 8 | The information will be compared with the picture of attitudes of the population at large gained from the annual British Social Attitudes survey ( supported by the Economic and Social Research Council ) and other sources . |
| 9 | International economic developments have a central role , but he ‘ regards the world economy as a system of interacting national social formations ’ . |
| 10 | Angry people may become aggressive and violent , possibly causing injury to themselves or to others , and ‘ non-accidental injury to children ’ and also to the spouse and to the elderly are increasingly recognised as serious current social problems . |
| 11 | Thus , to grasp properly the significance of popular dancing in the mid-nineteenth century — the waltz , for example — it is necessary to look not only at the waltz culture of the popular classes but also at such factors as : the peasant sources of the waltz ; the use made of those sources in bourgeois culture ; the changing social relations involved in the growth of industrial capitalism , to which the romanticizing of popular culture found in bourgeois waltzing , together with its cultivation of an explicit sensuality , was probably a reaction ; the tendency of the social developments to result in the atomization of established collective social patterns and modes of corporeal expression , leading , among avant-garde composers , to a music more overtly of thought and feeling , as against a music of social gesture ; the way these same composers , by way of reaction to that situation , incorporated spiritualized versions of dance elements in their music . |
| 12 | The first is a survival if not of feudalism ( although in Northumberland it is exactly that ) then of early modern social relations . |
| 13 | This analysis was reiterated in a very similar form in the 1970s by Berlinguer and Carillo , then the leaders of the Italian and Spanish Communist parties , and in a form which closely resembles the views of contemporary left-wing social democrats ( Hodgson , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | They are indicative not only of the strength of current Roman catholic social rules and sense of obedience on specified issues at the level of popular religion , but also of the direct power of the hierarchy operating through the state in affairs they considered sacred . |
| 15 | The birth of sociologie religieuse and the initial contributions of catholic institutions both in Europe and the USA to the founding of departments of sociology are rooted here rather than in the work of the founding fathers of the discipline , though clearly there are links between de Bonald , Maistre , and Durkheim on the nature of social solidarity and the concept of society , and authoritative Roman catholic social theorists . |
| 16 | Although Duncan and Goodwin develop a particular analysis of local government which explains its existence largely in terms of uneven development and the representation of differentiated local social relations ( discussed extensively in Mark Goodwin 's chapter which follows ) , their conclusions here would have been shared far more widely both by academics in the field of local government studies and by many local government politicians ( such as Blunkett and Jackson , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Large generic social services departments , which arose from the proposals from the Seebohm Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services ( 1968 ) were set up at this time . |
| 18 | Having given considerable thought to teaching movement to children and being very aware of fast changing social needs , Lucy Jackson developed MOTHER AND TODDLER classes in Hammersmith during the 1980s . |
| 19 | For people with long-standing difficult social circumstances that may throw up a crisis at any time , intervention might best combine practical help with a scheme to foster the person 's sense of control over his or her life , to reduce their sense of hopelessness . |
| 20 | Start by comparing the traditional and common meanings of legitimacy with the usage of leading modern social scientists . |
| 21 | In addition , the fact that women are less mobile than men and more confined to the home means that they are less likely to be exposed to situations which lack effective informal social controls . |
| 22 | Open at random : a cluster of brilliant green social wasps hang like a lobed fruit on their nest ; a Madagascar tree-boa flicks out its cobalt tongue ; a black and white ruffed lemur gobbles orange figs ; and white sifaka dance over golden sand . |
| 23 | It was a development taking place outside the immediate purview of the great all-European social strata and , to some extent , establishing the sinews of economic life which cut across the areas of dynastic concern . |
| 24 | It was fatal for them to emphasize their differences in the face of armed attack from the German Nazi or Austrian Christian Social autocracies . |
| 25 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 26 | The basic model for early Anglo-Saxon England is that small cohesive social units with low population densities merged by peaceful and forceful means into larger political agglomerations . |
| 27 | Many ongoing difficult social circumstances , whether or not a direct result of the person 's approach to life , may also erupt at some point into major crises . |
| 28 | Also present within civil society are various other social groupings , particularly those based on gender , race , generation and nation . |
| 29 | Having considered and dismissed various other explanations of suicide , Durkheim then showed how these rates varied systematically with the rates of various other social phenomena , such as religious belief , marital status , urban or rural living , military training or the lack of it , and others . |
| 30 | Although the terms by which police officers refer to black people are in common use in various other social contexts , they seem to be more commonly used within the Met than in most other groups : there can be few other groups in which it is normal , automatic , habitual to refer to black people as ‘ coons ’ , ‘ niggers ’ and so on … |