Example sentences of "society in which [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was especially significant for a society in which demonic possession was so prevalent and feared . |
| 2 | The second consequence of this unilinearity is that the idea of the standard is projected backwards on to states of language and society in which that idea may not have existed , or — if it did exist — may have been different in important ways from the idea of the standard as it exists today . |
| 3 | The society in which western scientists lived — and all scientists belonged to the western world , even those situated on its margins as in Russia combined stability and change , and so did their evolutionary theories . |
| 4 | The notion of justice which I find most convincing is that which tells us that we ought to seek a society in which each person is accepted as of equal moral worth and has equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total sum of society 's goods . |
| 5 | In a society in which each community is supposed to be autarchic and to supply its own needs , the full implementation of the nationality principle is impossible ; national freedom is necessarily denied to small nations , the nations whose territory provides less favourable conditions for production . |
| 6 | In a society in which egalitarian notions are taken seriously each individual sees himself as being personally directly inspired by the ultimate divine source of morality . |
| 7 | What O'Neillism did for Paisleyism was to raise in a concrete way the possibility of change from being a Protestant society and culture ( constantly threatened by the old enemy within and without ) to being a secular modern society in which religious affiliation would be of little consequence . |
| 8 | It would not be right to celebrate a society in which Afro-American women could make quilts and gardens but not write essays , and indeed Walker condemns that society even as she evokes the value of the gardens and the quilts . |
| 9 | It was the opposition of those whose careers were ruined — bankrupt restorations can not reward the victors and conciliate the vanquished — and of those who , having lived in a free society , could not tolerate the frustrations of an unfree society in which private criticism could not be translated into public action . |
| 10 | Thomas More 's vision of Utopia is that of a society in which private property would be abolished , in which the state would provide food , clothing , housing , education and medical treatment for all its members and in which the working day would be only six hours in length . |
| 11 | The experience confirmed Tanzania as a society in which key decisions were made by the president , sometimes in consultation with a few individuals and sometimes not , for implementation by an elite of party workers and civil servants . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ We live in a society in which all forms of management and leadership , however advised , are under constant challenge … . |
| 13 | I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities . |
| 14 | People have long dreamed of an egalitarian society , a society in which all members are equal . |
| 15 | He set forth an idealistic view of a society in which all privilege would be done away with , and in which wealth and power would be fairly shared , on the basis of competitive public examinations with General Essay papers on EITHER Natural Justice OR ‘ Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds . ’ |
| 16 | We aim to create a society in which all men and women can realise their full potential and shape their own successes . |
| 17 | These include , first , any calls for a radical restructuring of society in which new structures and processes of government are sought which would significantly alter the balance between governors and governed ; second , calls for greater priority to be given to social , community and ecological factors in decision-making and lower priority to be given to economic and technological factors which are geared towards reproducing or sustaining the kind of society that exists at present ; and , third , calls for a significant change in defence policy , for example , a renunciation of nuclear weapons , neutralism or disengagement from military alliances such as NATO ( McAuslan , 1980 , p. 6 ) . |
| 18 | No wonder , Paulos argues , that in a society in which such lapses are common , and indeed go unremarked , the citizenry should be prey to every form of delusion and chicanery , political or mercenary . |
| 19 | Navarre was a conservative , stable agrarian society in which Catholic Credit societies flourished in the late nineteenth century . |
| 20 | A society in which this right is systematically denied … can not be justified from an ethical point of view … ’ |
| 21 | Moreover — and more to the point — if as literary intellectuals we feel frustrated at having no channel of access to the figures who exercise decision-making power in our societies , Mrs Lowndes shows us a society in which literary intelligence had direct access to such centres of power , by way of the conjugal bed as well as over the dinner table . |
| 22 | At which point Mr Gorbachev 's strategy of turning the USSR into a prosperous society in which intelligent Russians can take pride will be doomed . |
| 23 | Each of these campaigns must be viewed , as she says , ‘ as one step ’ towards the protection of traditional values and morals , and the re-establishment of a society in which those values are paramount . |
| 24 | These studies would seem to support the view of a society in which sexual norms are slowly on the change . |
| 25 | Sadly it is a society in which professed ignorance of things scientific is sometimes paraded as a virtue . |
| 26 | This contrasts with societies in which technological advance is so rapid that old people feel deskilled . |
| 27 | Writing moved from ( i ) a supporting and recording function , in societies in which oral composition and tradition were still predominant , through ( ii ) a stage in which this function was joined by written composition for oral performance and ( iii ) a further stage in which composition was additionally written only to be read , to ( iv ) that later and very familiar stage in which most or virtually all composition was written to be silently read , and was at last , for this reason , generalized as ‘ literature ’ . |
| 28 | We have seen how societies in which large numbers of deaf people co-exist with hearing people can become predominantly ‘ deaf ’ and bilingual in spoken and sign language ( Groce , 1985 ) , and also how some mixed families can become ‘ deaf ’ in an attempt to fully integrate a deaf child ( Fletcher , 1987 ; Luterman , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | How has jewellery fared in societies in which mass consumption prevails ? |
| 30 | But , Drummond argued , so too was the latter : Once the human mind had evolved , self-sacrifice , cooperation , and maternal love would each contribute to the survival of societies in which those virtues were encouraged . |