Example sentences of "social [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Quantitative research involving issues in social and/or applied psychology ; Social and developmental psychology ; Intergroup conflict ( especially in Northern Ireland ) ; Mathematical models of perceptual processes and decision-making ; Statistical software ; Physiological psychology ; Experimental analysis of behaviour ; Behaviour modification ; Behavioural pharmacology ; Mother-child interaction ; Mental handicap ; Education assessment ; Intelligence ; Personality ; Educational achievement ; Development of mathematical ability ; Developmental aspects of mental and physical handicap ; Health psychology ; Menstruation and associated behaviour ; Behaviour genetics ; Comparative psychology ; Behavioural teratology of alcohol ; Fetal alcohol syndrome ; Fetal nutrition ; Biorhythms ; Gender and identity ; Anorexia and bulimia ; Ethnic relations ; Social skills training ; Analysis of professional interaction ; Lateral asymmetry ; Environmental psychology ; Metapsychology ; Developmental psychopathology ; Unemployment and development ; Quality assurance , performance indicators and professional competence .
2 Social and/or geographical ambiguities can cause problems of interpretation even with factual questions , e.g. ‘ When do you usually have tea ? ’
3 Problem drug use was defined as any non-medical use of psychoactive drugs which leads to medical , social and/or legal problems , as evidenced by the involvement of official agencies ( see Parker et al .
4 The snobbish distinction between art and craft only began in the eighteenth century amongst collectors who felt it necessary to describe creativity according to their social or monetary values .
5 These themes are dealt with time and time again , but the possibility that they may be irrelevant , or that unique cultural , social or ecological facts are more important , is left open .
6 Those that advocated social or political change in a reasoned and intelligent manner seemed to be either ignored or ended up defeated and disillusioned by the whole sorry mess .
7 Would it have made social or political sense to have done it ?
8 Rather than classes on directly social or political topics , the emphasis has been upon issue-based provision , in the first instance , as a means to develop work , where appropriate and possible , with a broader scope ( hence courses in Housing , Welfare Rights , Health Care , etc. rather than in Social Policy , Politics etc . ) .
9 For the remainder of the United Kingdom , this was a time when social or political upheaval seemed comparatively remote , and society appeared relatively orderly .
10 Michael Middleton might argue ‘ that Minton is aware of man , … in relation to nature , to his self-constructed civilisation , to the passing moment , ’ but his failure to establish for his figures a setting that is anything more than a backcloth , limited the humanism inherent in his work , as well as its social or political relevance .
11 The process of industrial production becomes more significant than social or political variations in the society in which organizations are located as determinants of internal structures of organizational power .
12 The Department of Political and Social Sciences wishes to appoint a ( m/f ) SOCIAL or POLITICAL SCIENTIST with interests covering both Eastern and Western Europe .
13 But even by his standards , Catholic Christianity is one of the ‘ important social or political forces which are part of world history ’ .
14 but choice it is , choice of alignments with the social or political forces presented at the time .
15 This leads naturally to another key point : whatever social or political meanings are attached to sport by different groups , participation remains intensely sociable and largely organized around the institution of the individual ‘ club ’ — a neglected social creation of the Victorians .
16 Its distribution again emphasises that the dispersal of some rare imports may have been governed by social or political factors .
17 Normally he would have had little patience with the attitudes of the Fromes , but the morning after such a bereavement did n't seem the time to argue the social or political toss with them .
18 The truth of this assertion is proved by actual legislation , by the existence among some classes of a certain distrust both of the law and the judges , and by a marked tendency towards the use of lawless methods for the attainment of social or political ends .
19 Questions of attribution have been deliberately avoided , as has the work of amateur artists , and there is little emphasis on issues of social or political background .
20 Problems have also arisen where there are sharp social or political rifts in the community , and where a school catchment area includes a wide disparity of income levels .
21 Millionaires are unlikely to be social or political radicals .
22 What are the factors , which if ignored , could affect the accuracy , for example , of opinion poles , and can scientific methods be successfully used in artistic , in social or political fields .
23 Can scientific methods be successfully used in let's say social or political fields .
24 In spite of common language and culture , there is no permanent social or political cohesion .
25 This bullshit becomes particularly irksome when the lyrical twists and turns are neat or clever , as many of them are , or when the LA street law of ‘ Life Goes On ’ display more than a glimmer of a social or political consciousness .
26 Some will no doubt accuse Jarman of shock tactics along Warhol lines , but Jarman has reinforced the view that performance and installation art are at their strongest when addressing social or political issues .
27 " Culture " provided a powerful countervailing force to those by now discredited attempts from the left during the 1930s to introduce " class as a category bearing on literature.a Liberty and individual freedom could now be defined in cultural rather than social or political terms as the free play of the human critical and evaluative impulse .
28 Loss of control in the self ( particularly the ‘ selves ’ of powerful individuals ) , or loss of control in a wider social or political fabric could produce a domino effect bringing the whole into chaos .
29 Stradling writes , " Until comparatively recently the prevailing view on political education in England was either that it was already adequately taken care of through History , Geography , Social or General Studies or that it was a wholly unsuitable subject for the school curriculum . "
30 In the words of the Head Missioner of the Birmingham Street Children 's Union : ‘ personal influence , the reaction of character on character , is the only effective force in social or religious reformation ’ .
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