Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [art] status [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The culture is about accepting the status quo , about accommodating to the demands of the industrial system . |
| 2 | It is seen , in the hands of white Rhodesians , as an excuse for keeping the status quo . |
| 3 | And , from my experience , I can only believe that in some measure , the courts are guilty of supporting the police in this attitude , for the sake of maintaining a status quo . |
| 4 | Conservation is incidental but the emphasis on encouraging traditional agriculture and other land management practices generally works in favour of maintaining the status quo , conserving wildlife habitats as a consequence . |
| 5 | State funding of the arts and of opera in particular is not even remotely capable of maintaining the status quo , and precious little of the commercial sponsorship that provides the lifeline to all the major opera companies is targeted at contemporary works . |
| 6 | Another critical prerequisite is the existence of a set of external conditions that makes the choice of maintaining the status quo either unlikely or impossible . |
| 7 | This view regards conflict as a means of maintaining the status quo , as a useful basis for evolutionary — rather than revolutionary — change . |
| 8 | For a radical social theorist such as Sahlins ( and for a number of feminists ) sociobiology is no more than a means of justifying the status quo as inevitable and ‘ natural ’ . |
| 9 | For him , the vital aesthetic principle of individuation can now be found only in the esoteric discontinuities of modern art , and is alone capable of subverting the status quo . |
| 10 | At the time of King William 's visit in 1861 , Prussian policy had been simply that of holding to the treaties of 1815 with no thought of altering the status quo . |
| 11 | And in turning the fear into laughter by speaking it out , she is participating in one of comedy 's most valuable functions : that of disrupting the status quo . |
| 12 | In the early days of shanty-town development , there were suggestions that the squatters would become a strong political force with the potential for threatening the status quo . |
| 13 | I am sure the majority of taxpayers in the rest of Britain are now resentful of the huge cost of rebuilding and compensation for retaining the status quo in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | ‘ capitalists with strong economic interests in maintaining the status quo . |
| 15 | Our ministers have done an extremely good job in maintaining the status quo . ’ |
| 16 | First , the concern of socialists with justice is a rebuke to many of us in the West who tend to be far too complacent in accepting the status quo and much which is unjust which goes with it . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there was also some complacency in accepting the status quo and in the rationalization that the performance of the traditional catalogue was acceptable after all . |
| 18 | In one article Whitty declared that , ‘ There is … a fair amount of prima facie evidence that the success of the political education movement in mobilising support from politicians is associated with their belief that it could assist in preserving the status quo and in bolstering respect for it . ’ |
| 19 | This is not to say that the Mexican unions are likely to become revolutionary tools to be used against a capitalist state , but nor are they conservative in supporting the status quo . |
| 20 | Disputes relating to rights and obligations centre upon interpreting the status quo , while third parties ' claims may rest upon interests or needs that have emerged or been articulated at some subsequent time . |
| 21 | After defeating the Avars , Sigibert returned and took Chilperic 's capital , Soissons , before restoring the status quo . |
| 22 | Cultural differences between UK and US observers have masked some startling changes in processes , practices and planning , all focussed on maintaining the status quo in how IBM treats its people . |
| 23 | In an election dominated by the constitutional question , only the Conservatives have been committed to maintaining the status quo . |
| 24 | Hegemony has to be won and is central to maintaining the status quo in legal enactment . |
| 25 | The GASB subsequently adopted an approach that is closer to the integral approach than the differential approach , though it is perhaps fair to say that the resulting list of user needs is closer to maintaining the status quo in governmental accounting while leaving the door open to the adoption of business accounting ideas in some areas . |
| 26 | Confronted by noble resistance and alarmed by foreign upheaval , Nicholas had shelved the issue and committed himself to upholding the status quo at home and abroad . |
| 27 | One objection that is bound to be raised by those who are conditioned to defending the status quo is to point to the current labour market and the difficulties being experienced by young people attempting to find work . |
| 28 | A company spokesman emerged to insist the Secretary of State had heard ‘ no new compelling arguments for changing the status quo . ’ |
| 29 | Moreover many right-wing senators are landholders who will not be enthusiastic about altering the status quo . |
| 30 | Like Labour , Tories will have to discuss reforming the monarchy versus keeping the status quo . |