Example sentences of "more than a social " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 2 | This also implies , as recognized by the community development activists of the 1970s and their inheritors the ‘ local socialists ’ , that poverty is a political condition as much if not more than a social or economic one . |
| 3 | We said that non-standard forms are rarely more than a social irritant to some people , and that there are few situations where such forms could cause real communication problems . |
| 4 | At the other extreme , many short-term members in the 1930s saw the BUF as little more than a social organization in which political activity was very much a secondary phenomenon . |
| 5 | But the neglect of girl children through the centuries of theorising is more than a social injustice , though many might think this real and bad enough . |
| 6 | Rationality turns into narrow intellectualism , freedom into licence , independence into isolationism , dignity into selfish pride ; the autonomous human being turns out to be no more than a social atom after all . |
| 7 | ‘ I might make a little bit more than a social worker and I get to enjoy myself with my clients ’ . |