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

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1 Practical classes and laboratory work are part of this training , with opportunities to use all the tools of the social scientist as well as a variety of equipment in surveying and photogrammetry , computing and Geographical Information Systems ( GIS ) , and physical geography .
2 The unit will have a private consultation room and open plan area for social activities as well as kitchen and toilet facilities .
3 This distorted access to resources in youth and middle age — institutionalised in segregative and discriminatory employment and other social policies as well as in the domestic division of labour — is reflected , in due course , in the relative disadvantage of women in old age .
4 I do n't feel that music is the most appropriate forum for social change because frankly I do n't think my opinions are valid for everyone , so I would n't want my opinions echoed by hundreds of thousands of people buying T-shirts with my name on them .
5 While this remains of importance , this sort of approach overlooks the part the mass media play in generating public perceptions of political and social change as well as of policies and decision-making processes .
6 Every nurse needs to develop psychological and social skills as well as manual skills in order to maintain an effective nurse/patient relationship while the patient requires it ; and these skills are also required to relinquish the relationship when appropriate .
7 His rise to the very pinnacle of the business world is evidence not only of academic and managerial skills , but of social skills as well .
8 Being unemployed also means that you are deprived of the social contacts and involvement in collective activity that goes with paid employment ; you lack its external stimulus to activity and time-structure ; and you lack the status and sense of value provided by a job and expressed in terms of social esteem as well as money .
9 Enough of the social side as well .
10 Those who rise to the top in public affairs work can expect social recognition as well as good financial rewards .
11 Writing in 1947 , Hogg ( later Lord Hailsham ) , presenting the Conservative Party case against the reforms introduced by the Labour government , felt that the rate of income tax ‘ has become a potent cause of social harm as well as a source of revenue ’ .
12 In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) .
13 Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well .
14 The ordinary universe is a social manifesto as well as a literary position .
15 This tended to affect the capital-intensive professions , such as medicine and engineering , in the form of regulation of capital spending and student numbers , rather more than the cheaper ones , but there have been direct or indirect consequences for fields such as nursing , teaching and social work as well .
16 Far from perceiving social work as too adversarial , they insisted that it remained too bland , welfarist and optimistic in its assumptions and operational strategies with potentially abusive parents .
17 Hierarchical ranking operated within each social grouping as well as between members of different groups .
18 But because the repercussions are so enormous it becomes a political and social issue as well . '
19 While increasingly businesses claim to fulfil social purposes as well , they will not survive unless they satisfy their customers profitably in the market place .
20 It is social custom as well as genetics .
21 Social workers as well as lecturers in education contribute to the course input .
22 I hope that the second inquiry , of which Mr. Norman Warner will be the chairman , will look closely at the role , quality , education and training of social workers as well as the way in which they are selected .
23 To do so might be to meet a lot of the problems of youth in our society before they become social problems as well .
24 Since all goods are donated , most of them of high quality coming from the more affluent within and outwith the parish , charges for them can be minimal so providing a social service as well as a subsidy towards the hall expenses .
25 The aims of the Board have been to improve economic and social conditions as well as to increase the contribution of the region to the national economy .
26 Parsons sees social stratification as both inevitable and functional for society .
27 This strategy is simply to defend existing institutions and social relations as naturally right and inevitable .
28 It remains to be seen how successful this drive will prove because governments have to convince young people of the attractions of scientific and industrial education vis-à-vis the humanities and the social sciences as well as of the advantages of employment in industry and trade rather than in other sectors of the labour market .
29 The first is to analyse , account for and document Hong Kong social policy as so far evolved and to attempt to assess its future lines of development in the light of the London — Peking accords .
30 The honours system symbolises social superiority while also acting as a social discipline on upper-class members who wish to retain or enhance their standing ( as with public employees seeking lesser honours ) .
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