Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] society " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reanalysis of childhood mortality data first published in 1988 raises new concerns about the health and circumstances of one of the fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups in society : lone mothers with dependent children who are largely reliant on social security benefits . |
| 2 | This is especially the case when the unoccupied group is identified as largely consisting of single parent families dependent on state benefits , one of the fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups in society . |
| 3 | His perennial concern was to reconcile the general principle of democracy with the idea of government and social leadership being safely in the hands of an elite of the best and most enlightened members of society . |
| 4 | This concept of dominant values will be discussed more fully in Chapter 10 ; here we can simply note the role of such values in securing the acquiescence of the subordinate and less privileged members of society . |
| 5 | Since most social scientists and the readers of their works belong to the middle class , this pursuit typically leads to the lower and more desperate edges of society . |
| 6 | The present account concerns that middle stratum and how its views might relate to wider and more powerful forces of society . |
| 7 | The attitude that smoking is anti-social is gaining currency among the more articulate , better educated and more aware groups in society , but the vicious corollary is that the tobacco and advertising industries must get their recruits from the lower end of the socio-economic scale . |