Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [art] social [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( This makes it hard to draw any line between old and ‘ new ’ , i.e. post-Periclean , politicians in terms of social standing ; similarly we now know that the later and much-vilified demagogue Kleophon was the son of a man high enough up the social ladder to have served as a general : ML 21 . )
2 Groups further down the social scale were in a much weaker position than the boyars or the Church to press their interests upon the Grand Prince .
3 State-sponsored housing began to reach further down the social scale than previously and house building under subsidy began to increase in the later 1920s .
4 I can tell you that the further down the social scale we went the brighter and sweeter and richer the orange squash , and the more I loved it .
5 John Byng in 1781 saw the revolution as reaching rather further down the social scale : " I wish with all my heart that half the turnpike roads of the kingdom were plough 'd up , which have imported London manners , and depopulated the country — I meet milkmaids on every road , with the dress and looks of Strand misses … "
6 Even in the merchant activities of the outports , however , a great number of people were taking shares in trading ventures , and from much further down the social scale than was the case with the East India Company , only 1.6 per cent of whose investors held less than £100 in 1764 .
7 In North America consumer expectations moved quite rapidly down the social scale , drawn by high wages and less marked social rigidities .
8 His ability took him rapidly up the social security tree and to Number 10 as Jim Callaghan 's Principal Private Secretary .
9 But further up the social scale , unrewarded deference was often required , often with the constable being treated as simply another flunkey in uniform , an attitude that might provoke a retaliatory reaction .
10 By the 1960s , on the other hand , it was becoming increasingly difficult for those further up the social scale to avoid the consequences of industrialization any longer — even by indulging in rural retreatism .
11 Only a little further up the social scale , another quarter or more of the rural inhabitants had tenements varying in size up to a yardland , which in Cambridgeshire seems to have been about 30 and 40 acres .
12 How far down the social scale the possession of seals extended is not known , but the carrying of personal identification tags is exactly what we would expect of such a minutely organized society .
13 It is now necessary to consider how far down the social scale these party tensions permeated .
14 Discontent lower down the social scale was no less intense .
15 She has discovered that a boundary line for consumption of non-staple household goods existed even across the bequeathing classes , and has cautioned against accepting much contemporary opinion that the " luxury " market had reached well down the social scale .
16 Many after all had served in households not much better than their own , for servant-keeping reached well down the social scale .
17 Nevertheless , from what we do know , there can be no doubt that the children 's world of the eighteenth century — at least for those born higher up the social scale than the labouring poor — changed dramatically .
18 There is nothing implausible in the argument that peasants , especially better-off peasants , managed their holdings , and their familial strategies , as adroitly as did some people higher up the social scale .
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