Example sentences of "[vb base] in [art] [adj] society " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I mean I think if you dragged it in by its heels there is a message there , in that erm the struggle , again coming back to the university , that young people face in a competitive society , in an attempt to express themselves , to demonstrate that they have something to give and that no matter how difficult the whole economic circumstances are , and how problematical the question of employment is , young people are entitled , or society ought to see that they 're entitled , erm to some manner of expression , some form of expression , to express themselves . |
| 2 | What people to look you know in the modern society women do n't have to rely on men or do n't have to have traditional sex roles , this is a point of view is n't it ? |
| 3 | If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented . |
| 4 | I believe in a responsible society . |
| 5 | But he added : ‘ Islamic laws only apply in a just society — not one where society itself is the culprit . |
| 6 | I think that we look very favourably on schemes whereby an education process is involved erm where there are workshops and performance , but it becomes a total package in itself — it 's not just a performance for an ethnic minority , but it 's one that represents the fact that we live in a multi-cultural society itself . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , since we live in a capitalist society , the argument is an important one for those who would take up a correctionalist stance under it . |
| 8 | However , the content through which these mathematical skills are taught has a set of messages all of its own and because we live in a capitalist society we can easily be unaware of these messages — about the exploitation of labour , the sexism , the inequalities based on racism and social class — that are all a part of the ideology of capitalism . |
| 9 | If that is what getting engaged does to him , the pity is that we live in a monogamous society ! |
| 10 | He wanted to emphasize the new play 's connection with The Family Reunion : once again he was to deal with characters who live in a worn-out society , and have lost their way . |
| 11 | We live in a hi-tech society , so why is it few people can pass a fountain or a well without dropping in a coin ? |
| 12 | We live in a violent society . |
| 13 | There are still no signs of multi-culturalism to be found which is disappointing and worrying — surely the publishers realise we live in a multi-racial society ? |
| 14 | To prevent the spread of infection ( and because we live in a throw-away society ) disposable needles are often used , although if your dog requires prolonged treatment your vet may keep a ‘ permanent ’ set especially for that purpose . |
| 15 | Slogans such as ‘ art for the people ’ mask the cynicism of commercial and political manipulation , which would like to make believe that we all live in a homogeneous society of consumers . |
| 16 | I thought : we live in a multicultural society , but everything we see is white and stereotyped . |
| 17 | If we live in a free society we can not carry out experiments on the real world so it would not be possible to go ahead and build the road just to see what would happen . |
| 18 | We live in a permissive society . |
| 19 | We may regret we live in a permissive society but I doubt whether even the most staunch defender of a better age would maintain that all or even most of those who have at one time or in one way or another been led astray morally have thereby become depraved or corrupt " . |
| 20 | I think in a democratic society we restrict the security services and that gives the advantage to the terrorists , ’ he said . |
| 21 | O'Connell concluded that it is difficult to reject the cogency of Jenks ’ argument ‘ that the sociological achievement of a complex , interlocking conventional system can not be squandered through conservative reliance upon irrelevant political history and immature notions of the role treaties play in an advanced society . ’ |
| 22 | Arthur Scargill put it that ‘ Whilst we exist in a capitalist society we have to extract from that society the highest possible reward for the labour power that we sell , whilst at the same time trying to change the society . ’ |
| 23 | With consummate skill , Trudi Pacter follows the paths of these extraordinary women from the 1960s to the present day , as their fortunes rise and fall in the high society hothouses of London and New York . |
| 24 | Moreover , Stevenson 's theory , and the attitudinism sketched above , are at their most convincing in their treatment of value charged descriptive words , among which indeed even such words as ‘ good ’ can be counted when we are concerned with the meaning that they have in a homogeneous society . |
| 25 | Let me begin by stating more fully the view I have already intimated , that political activities — that is to say , struggles for power among individuals and groups in relation to their own interests and to the general regulation and orientation of collective life — occur in every human society . |