Example sentences of "[pron] [det] culture [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | These are problems which it is a major responsibility of government to face up to and adopt sensitive policies to foster social cohesion without denying people the right to their own culture and way of life . |
2 | Secondly , we were struck by the Scots ' awareness of the beauty of their own culture and history , this well reflected in the music that they showed us . |
3 | If the great mass of the people are to make a cultural democracy for themselves a prime objective must be the development of political awareness and action so that they can achieve command of their own culture and control of the socio-economic forces which affect it , surmounting the crises of a world of crises . |
4 | As we have seen , this is an impossible task and at times Olson himself seems prepared to admit as much , But the tenor of his claims , and those of others , for the lack of ambiguity of literacy , and of Lyons ' claims for its ‘ objectivity ’ , are , as we have seen , such as to imply that not only can the goal be achieved , but that it has been uniquely achieved in the form of writing developed in their own culture or sub-culture . |
5 | While each nation has its own culture and history , in recent years each has been affected by events in the surrounding region . |
6 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
7 | For one thing , those intervening formulations have been profoundly determining of our own culture and consciousness , and their influence can not be erased ; even deconstructed , they continue to exert an influence . |
8 | The myths closest to our personalities are those of our own culture and prehistory . |
9 | Accusations against his criminality and bestiality are related to the desire to purify our own culture and civilisation . |
10 | Other signals may be rooted in our own culture or sub-culture — our clothes and our hair styles , for example , tell other people as much about us as what we say and the way we behave . |