Example sentences of "[that] [art] social [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is thus not fanciful to claim , as De Boer has done , that the social motives of protecting ‘ liveability ’ in residential areas demand nothing less than ‘ recapturing the street from the automobile ’ .
2 It was this kind of evidence that led us to use the social network model in a systematic way : as Ballymacarrett is the most stable and well-established of the communities , we can conclude that the social conditions there are favourable to the emergence of a close-knit network structure of the kind often found in low-status communities ( Young and Wilmott , 1962 ) , and there is ample ethnographic evidence that a close-knit structure of this kind is capable of imposing normative consensus on its members .
3 … This means that the social traditions , values and attitudes which exist in any society can not be brushed aside .
4 Most of the attempts to include social factors in the study of erosion and conservation , as the four illustrative quotations show , imply that the social problems start with ‘ them ’ , the land-users themselves .
5 Prisoners are often transferred so far away from their homes that the social problems become immense and the difficulties are exacerbated rather than diminished .
6 The teams were introduced at an auspicious moment in that the social services department budget had improved suddenly and substantially , enabling the CMHTs to be staffed with social workers specifically appointed for their commitment to the developmental ideal .
7 Nails had received a message from Mr Sylvester that the Social Services representative wanted to see him at four o'clock .
8 Inspector David Williams , head of Barking 's child protection squad , said yesterday that the social services were wrong .
9 It was on this basis that the social services committee in January overturned the finding of the complaints review panel that Hazell had a ‘ psychological need ’ to go to Milton Heights for three years .
10 They know that the social services they will get in California are far better than those in Texas , and plan their routes accordingly .
11 The minority report recommended that the social services should be developed first and accorded less priority to family allowances .
12 Although justified on the basis that the social services departments , and by implication the staff , were responsible for users ' safety during opening hours , this policy represented an explicit denial of users ' freedom .
13 It is also quite likely that the social services consumed some of the capital that could have been invested in industry , but again there was no scarcity of capital during this period .
14 The overall position on staffing tends , therefore , to defy much generalization beyond that the social services need a very large number of trained people , and that by and large they fail to get them .
15 The main problem was rate capping for the city council , which meant that the social services department had to save £4m and lose 400 staff .
16 He wanted to see a mixed economy of care and he considered it essential that the social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services , not as monopolistic providers .
17 The Secretary of State will be aware that the social services departments of many local authorities are struggling to meet their financial commitments in implementation of the Children Act 1989 .
18 I understand that the social services want to help people , but sometimes one can help people a bit more by nipping problems in the bud and dealing with them at an earlier stage .
19 I 'm sure that the social services require psychiatric or
20 Well I think , Bill , if I was to try and sum it up I 'd say that the Social Services settlement was the best of a bad job .
21 It would challenge the boundaries between subject areas : for example , why science is construed and taught as a totally separate area from social science , when it might be argued that the social effects of science ( particularly in our nuclear age ) should be given equal weight to the mechanisms of science .
22 One of these is the fact that the social networks of individuals are like language itself , open-ended and changing , and they can not be precisely delimited for this reason .
23 More generally , it can be suggested that the social reforms which have been pursued through educational reform in the post-war period , prior to collapse of the liberal consensus and its political constituency , need to be approached through a direct assault upon the structural sources of inequality in demand-side institutions .
24 The authors suggest that the social consequences of environmental lead may be serious , with a large increase in the proportion of children requiring educational assistance .
25 Recently historians have been reasserting the view that the social consequences of parliamentary enclosures included a local increase in poverty .
26 Elaborate funerary rites , strenuously promoted by the emergent trade of the undertakers , ensured that the social pretensions of the middle-class would extend as far into the next world as money could take them .
27 The social panic surrounding the emergence of the Teddy Boys formed part of a much wider structure of feeling in 1950s Britain that the social changes wrought on the postwar world were destroying the old ‘ British way of life ’ and the former civility of the British people , and the Teds were understood to be symptomatic of these social alterations .
28 The philosophy of pragmatism flourished in the United States at roughly the same period that the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism emerged in Britain .
29 Mr Clinton has shown no inkling that this bothers him , no sense that the social programmes he will now not be able to enact are ones over which he will shed many tears .
30 It is easy to show , as Miliband and others have done , that members of the capitalist class participate directly in the apparatus of the state , that the social origins of senior bureaucrats are those of the ruling class , and that there are many personal ties of influence , status and experience which link members of the ruling class with members of the state apparatus , especially the bureaucracy ( Miliband 1969 , pp. 48–68 ; Krislov 1974 ; Subramaniam 1967 ) .
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