Example sentences of "[art] [adj] group or [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , through opposition to criminal behaviour the social group or society is strengthened .
2 It is by making use of this complexity of an extended observing participation I believe anthropology can edge beyond its contemporaries in the other social sciences , so that the ‘ thick description ’ which Geertz ( 1975 ) urged us to use , takes on the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ necessary for an anthropology at home ( MacDonald 1987 : 120 ) where access to the social group or community studied is readily available to any demand for analytic reassessment .
3 Constitutionally chief officers are not responsible to the ruling group or committee chairmen , but to the whole council which they are obliged to keep informed of facts , law and all other considerations relevant to decision-making .
4 Some varieties , even compared with close relatives in the same group or type , are much more vigorous than others .
5 What we say will count very little if we look wrong to the particular group or individual to whom we are talking .
6 The DFG has long realised the shortcomings of the normal 1-year grant : it does not give enough resources and security to build up a substantial group or programme in a particular area .
7 When you attend a feminist group or meeting , you soon learn that interruption , talking too much , raising your voice , vehemently disagreeing with others , expressing hostility and so forth are not acceptable behaviour .
8 Still others search for new religious forms , or invent their own in a small group or sect .
9 The extent of the surrender varies from one person to another , and the assumptions about the claim to privacy also vary — not only from one person to another within a given group or society , but from one society to another and from one historical period to another .
10 Those who belong to a particular group or stratum will have some awareness of common interests and a common identity .
11 This sort of personal experience adds a potent deterrent effect to more objective considerations which may already be swaying lenders against a particular group or class of potential customers .
12 As the discussion of power in Chapter 2 showed , pluralist approaches have explicitly rejected the notion that one can derive a causal explanation of policy outcomes based upon the congruence of the policy outcome with the interests of a particular group or class — that the congruence between the policy outcome and the interests of a group offers strong evidence to support ascribing power to the group .
13 In the early stages , you will want to learn vocabulary that is used frequently , and which has wide usefulness , for example , verbs in English like do , make , give , and generic terms ( common to a whole group or class ) like people , animal , tool , food .
14 Of a genus ; common to a whole group or class .
15 The concept of the Created God completely rules out the exclusion from the Alternative Religion of any part whatsoever of humankind , whether it be by reason of race , colour , sex , or for any other reason at all which may create an identifiable group or individual .
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