Example sentences of "important social " in BNC.
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| 1 | As today , drinking establishments held an important social and cultural position in medieval and early modern England . |
| 2 | The developer was eventually defeated through the planning system , where it was decided that the pub amounted to an important social amenity . |
| 3 | But even by his standards , Catholic Christianity is one of the ‘ important social or political forces which are part of world history ’ . |
| 4 | Earlier , Kurt Hager , 77 , the party 's oldest and most authoritative hardline ideologue , said the first priorities were to involve the population in the solution to important social problems and to improve the government 's information policy . |
| 5 | Ivor Crewe has drawn attention to the political significance of the more important social trends : twice as many manual workers are now in the private sector as in the public sector ; there are far more home-owners than council tenants among them , and nearly as many live in the south as in the north and Scotland combined . |
| 6 | Some of the most important social changes and some of the greatest philanthropists in the last century were in the field of retailing and yet they are not our heroes . |
| 7 | To this end , it is calling a World Summit for Children to be held at the UN in New York next September , bringing together heads of state for the first time to discuss an important social issue . |
| 8 | The Faroese soon developed a drive fishery for pilot whales , and the grynd came to be an important social event , an occasion when the whole community would come together to catch their food . |
| 9 | In two areas where unemployment was particularly high the farm , even though providing little or no financial return , was seen as an important factor in keeping the male school leavers occupied thereby fulfilling an important social function . |
| 10 | This establishes a set of permanent relationships between parents , godparents and child/godchild in which the most important social relationship excludes the child , for it is between parents and godparents . |
| 11 | Sometimes they were illustrations for serious study or important social statements . |
| 12 | Much important social research results from war . |
| 13 | This is not to deny , of course , that crime and violence in contemporary society is an important social reality . |
| 14 | Mealtimes were not just for eating , but were important social occasions . |
| 15 | Quite apart from the individual personal considerations relating to the need for an established religion based on genuine ‘ god worship ’ , there are equally important social ones , of great importance to all the various communities of the world . |
| 16 | The change of crop was not without important social consequences . |
| 17 | As in India , caste was an important social institution . |
| 18 | There are important social implications of such knowledge . |
| 19 | The end of parenting is usually the first shedding of an important social role , and if a successful redirection in life can be achieved at this point , many of the problems and difficulties of later adjustments to old age can be more successfully faced . |
| 20 | If governments do not support or even own both , governments are , in any case , the news media 's most important social actors and their most ‘ authoritative source ’ . |
| 21 | The series encapsulated many of the important social and political issues of the time and therefore was not just an academic analysis . |
| 22 | All these seasonal rituals had important social functions too ; they helped to affirm the unity of the civic community , to create good fellowship , and to channel youthful deviant behaviour into socially acceptable misrule . |
| 23 | To move ahead it will be necessary to try to identify children 's learning needs — certain skills in science , history , geography , language and the arts , as well as equally important social and personal ones . |
| 24 | The most important social division ran between a dominant class based on the legal ownership of industrial and commercial capital ( and sometimes having little to do with either management or labour ) and a population most of which worked for wages . |
| 25 | Social Work Education published three times a year , publishes reflective and critical articles , providing a forum for debate on important social care , social work education , training and staff development issues . |
| 26 | Clearly these are all matters which would repay up-to-date research , since it seems that we may be witnessing important social changes in patterns of family support at the present time . |
| 27 | In literate urban societies it can provide valuable quantitative information on such topics as education , health , housing , social class , racial attitudes , income distribution , family-structure , the mass media and so on , thus contributing to the identification and understanding of important social issues . |
| 28 | Although this interest in pseudo-historical connections was Morgan 's primary concern , he was also one of the first anthropologists to understand that the names used to designate relatives are not simply determined by linguistic rules without reference to social factors ; kinship terms have an important social dimension , since relatives grouped together and called by the same term exhibit , at least in certain respects , shared patterns of behaviour . |
| 29 | Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour . |
| 30 | Fiscally it signified little , for the total tax liability ( inclusive of the loan payment ) remained unaltered at 20 per cent , though there is the important social difference that from this point the proportion of subsidy assessments on landed incomes increases sharply . |