Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [adj] social [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 2 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 3 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 4 | He preferred to think of it as a meaningful social comment , which it certainly was not , otherwise the dialogue and plot might not have been so banal . |
| 5 | In traditional psychoanalysis , the paternal prohibition of oedipal sexuality ends the close relationship between the child and mother ; enforces the child 's recognition of sexual difference , that is , its recognition of the absence of the phallus from the female body ; and introduces it into a wider social world . |
| 6 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 7 | It was not to pass examinations and qualify for better wages , not to raise themselves into a higher social class — though these are respectable ambitions and no doubt many of those early students felt them — but to get at knowledge for its own sake because without it their existence would be less worth to them , that the working classes demanded education and got it . |
| 8 | It is always exceedingly difficult to look at oneself within a familiar social setting without falling into conventional cliches . |