Example sentences of "society in [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where do you personally feel it touching the society in which we live ? |
| 2 | ‘ It can not be done overnight , but when we look at all our successful neighbours in Europe , we know it can be done over years , so not only do we have an economy in which we all have confidence , a society in which we can all be at ease , and a country of which we can all be proud , but our children can have the benefit too , ’ he said . |
| 3 | 16.7 Reading is also one of the means by which we interact with the society in which we live . |
| 4 | It follows that ‘ To teach the value of living in a democracy is therefore , by implication , to raise the issue of whether the society in which we actually live is democratic or not . ’ |
| 5 | These ideas were the ‘ promotion of homosexuality and its portrayal as a pretend family relationship ’ , which ‘ seek to alter fundamentally the society in which we live . ’ |
| 6 | As a result many of the groups have decided to take practical measures to improve the society in which we live . |
| 7 | These are the people we believe have shaped and moulded history , and the society in which we now live . |
| 8 | We may not like what fans do and we may view aggro leaders and their like as unhappy reminders of a violent society in which we live . |
| 9 | What we are as individuals is decided by the particular society in which we live , and by the particular social groups to which we belong . |
| 10 | Larger families represent an unacceptable burden on the state or , worse still , may become enemies of society : " All intelligent Salvadoreans — men or women — ought to realize that in order to get on in life , it is better to have one well-trained child , than 5 or 10 who are a burden , or enemies of the society in which we live . |
| 11 | If the benefits of large families were obvious in the Irish peasant society in which we had once had our roots , they had a certain value for us too ; they scored vital points on the council housing list . |
| 12 | Our thoughts , everyday routines and even our dreams reflect the son of society in which we live . |
| 13 | This should certainly include some detailed attention to how mathematics might be used to expose the racist , sexist and class-ridden nature of the society in which we live . |
| 14 | However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are . |
| 15 | We want access to the same range of opportunities to participate in and contribute to the society in which we live . |
| 16 | The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live . |
| 17 | But there is one more role we have to play if we are to been seen as a socially responsible company , setting standards for the industry within the society in which we operate . |
| 18 | er , Can I enter a plea for tolerance , if in a democracy it 's very easy to get steamed up about things you do n't like , things you find disgusting and revolting but if everyone is going to come forward , have banned the activity they do n't like then we 're going to live , it may be a democracy , but it 's going to be a narrowed , er and intolerant society in which we live . |
| 19 | But then you , th th the the end is , er , a society in which we could all live , erm , on reasonable terms with each other , at peace with each other . |
| 20 | That was because they tended to imply that beliefs , laws , and principles were not based on eternal unchanging principles but were aspects of the type of society in which they occurred . |
| 21 | The Royal Navy relieved these men of the burden of privileged birth , gave them a peer-group of brother officers and an isolated , artificial microcosm of society in which they were free to be themselves . |
| 22 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 23 | Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live . |
| 24 | Children learn self-restraint as part of the process by which they learn the values and attitudes of the society in which they will move . |
| 25 | It familiarizes students with those theories by which they may better understand themselves , the society in which they live and their role within it . |
| 26 | The vital role of the parents is to do all they can to ensure that the loss or diminution of love and friendship , will be the worst thing that can happen to their children if they transgress the legal and moral codes that control the society in which they will be living . |
| 27 | Many doctors reflect the ageist attitudes of the society in which they work , feeling that the medical problems of older people are a lower priority than their younger patients . |
| 28 | ‘ Even those who make money out of it — not just the pushers and dealers — are destroying the society in which they may wish to appear affluent . ’ |
| 29 | Comparative industrial relations is not an ‘ export-import exercise ’ ( Schregle , 1981 ) since industrial relations phenomena reflect the characteristic features of the society in which they operate . |
| 30 | Since trade unions reflect features of the society in which they have developed , it is scarcely surprising to find sharp contrasts between their role and orientation within the Soviet type communist system compared to that in western countries . |