Example sentences of "which individuals " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a good in itself , to provide it is a work of charity , an opus caritatas , which individuals and churches , cities and nations , may vie with one another to do , as they build hospitals or raise temples . |
| 2 | Offences committed by groups may well occasion greater fear than offences committed by individuals , and it may also be true that groups have a tendency to do things which individuals might not do : there is a group bravado , a group pressure , which may lead to excesses . |
| 3 | This has led to a situation in which individuals have either tended to pursue their own goals ( deliberately ) or have misinterpreted ( genuinely ) the aims of the school . |
| 4 | The steps we outline in this paper are necessary to create a fair , democratic and prosperous society , in which individuals are able to make their voice heard and develop their talents and skills to the full . |
| 5 | Sir Julian Huxley argued that the directional component in cognitive evolution was made possible by an increasing stability of internal integration in the body together with increases in social integration that allow for stable social systems in which individuals can learn while young . |
| 6 | Trivers argues that the chances of selection favouring altruistic behaviour in which individuals dispense a benefit to another greater than the cost of the act will be improved when many potentially altruistic situations arise in the population , when there are repetitive interactions of the same kind within a small group of individuals , and where symmetrical situations favouring the return of benefits are common . |
| 7 | r and K selection tend to produce widely contrasting strategies for individual success in reproduction , which are in turn given expression in the types of social organization in which individuals live and breed . |
| 8 | The social structure arising from the interactions between the birds was thus an expression of individual adaptedness and formed an important societal component of the environment in which individuals were seeking to survive and procreate descendants . |
| 9 | Wrangham argues that the formation of large feeding parties ( in which individuals actually eat less than in smaller ones ) may improve the reproductive success of a male community through increasing its probability of winning territorial encounters and hence females . |
| 10 | Relationships are dynamic … the status system is a kind of social front , a temporary balance of forces , behind which individuals develop the social skills needed for the … resolution of intergenerational competition ’ ( Crook 1975 ) . |
| 11 | Public authority is ultimately based on the moral duty which individuals owe their fellow humans . |
| 12 | In particular its authority should be recognized to the extent necessary to enable it to secure goals , which individuals have reason to secure , for which social co-ordination is necessary or helpful , and where this is the most promising way of achieving them . |
| 13 | Charlotte Brunsdon 's excellent collection Films for Women ( 1986 ) and E. Deirdre Pribram 's equally useful Female Spectators ( 1988 ) both emphasise the heterogeneity of female spectatorship , whilst at the same time seeing film-viewing as very much a social practice rather than something which individuals undergo , passively , in the dark . |
| 14 | Indeed , legislation actually limits the amount which individuals can invest into the scheme . |
| 15 | However , there are many ways in which individuals can protect themselves and others from the potentially dangerous effects of pollutants . |
| 16 | In an earlier section of this chapter , a great range of activities which individuals carry out in maintaining a safe environment were mentioned in relation to preventing accidents in the home , at work , at play and while travelling . |
| 17 | Labelling , therefore , refers to the process by which individuals and groups classify and categorise social behaviour and other individuals . |
| 18 | Thus far we have examined the process by which individuals become labelled . |
| 19 | The former centre around the socialisation process , the way in which individuals learn and accept the values and norms of the wider society . |
| 20 | Given the major schisms within the lower class of the street — encompassing both the collective solidarity of a community in relation to outsiders and the entrepreneurship by which individuals ensured their personal survival , and the schisms of age and gender — police relations with that public were inevitably confusing and paradoxical . |
| 21 | Whilst the home authority can plan and contract for the services it identifies as being required to meet the needs of its population , it is not clear who will decide which individuals will receive these services . |
| 22 | The present paper is concerned with the conditions under which individuals introduced separately become available for reference by means of plural pronouns . |
| 23 | If doctors could know for certain which individuals would develop the disease , they could treat potential diabetics before the process takes hold . |
| 24 | The report concludes with a discussion on the health effects of organochlorines and suggests ways in which individuals can limit their intake of dioxin-like compounds . |
| 25 | ‘ We do not think it is possible to deny that there are circumstances in which individuals may justifiably choose to enter into a homosexual relationship ... [ although ] such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage . ' |
| 26 | Elizabeth wrote somewhere : ‘ I think loneliness is a theme running through many of my novels and short stories , the different ways in which individuals can be isolated from others — by poverty , old age , eccentricity , living in a foreign country — even by having committed murder , as in A Wreath of Roses ( there are several kinds of loneliness in that novel ) . ’ |
| 27 | For video shoots in which individuals or groups of people are to be lit by direct floodlighting , the exact placing of the lamps becomes more important . |
| 28 | These Acts extended the powers of secondary picketing and the ability to negotiate closed shop agreements , and limited the grounds on which individuals could refuse to join a trade union . |
| 29 | It is possible to see groups functioning in which individuals are intent on putting forward their own views without listening and sharing their problems with other members of the group . |
| 30 | They also claim that poverty is not alleviated by providing ever-increasing welfare benefits , but rather by providing an appropriate economic and social environment , in which individuals have the incentive and the ability to raise themselves out of poverty , without encountering the poverty or unemployment traps . |