Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] material " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups were created by political or material need , and once created , granted each other quasi-familial status ( complete , for literate societies , with swiftly constructed genealogies ; thus , the descendants of the prophet in Islam have down the ages offered much work for the imagination and ingenuity of the genealogical archivists ) . |
| 2 | This applied both to parents of young children who were themselves in emotional or material crises , and to parents in conflict with their older children about their behaviour . |
| 3 | These included special educational needs , ethnic minority and multicultural needs , equal opportunity and gender-related needs , and social and/or material disadvantage . |
| 4 | The larger part of PNP resourcing was concentrated on schools where significant proportions of children were experiencing social and/or material disadvantage . |
| 5 | Is it biological , cultural or material , or is it the result of some aspect of personal and social experiences ? |
| 6 | Although the declaration refrained from offering membership of the Alliance to former Warsaw Pact countries , it assured those countries , notably Czechoslovakia , which had expressed concern about a security vacuum in a post-Cold War Europe , that " freedom from any form of coercion or intimidation " was of " direct and material concern to us " . |
| 7 | These will have had a firm foundation in play and the talk that accompanies it , particularly if the learner has had the social and material opportunities provided by playgroup or nursery school . |
| 8 | Labourism is not to be understood merely in its institutions and strategies ; it emerged from and is rooted within lived social and material relationships . |
| 9 | This theory of ideology introduces a distorting dynamic in the process of knowledge that is not due to mistakes or faulty thinking but is systematically related to the social and material relations of society . |
| 10 | The explanation is better sought in the specific social and material circumstances and their articulation with political and ideological structures . |
| 11 | It was not that ruffianism was thought to be funny , but the radical and socialist press wished to place a different emphasis on the criminal question which took full account of the social and material circumstances of working-class life . |
| 12 | The tenacity , ingenuity and resourcefulness of the women involved in these Groups ' activities was remarkable for the sheer depth of social and material capacities which it uncovered . |
| 13 | Here the ‘ practical ’ relates to the satisfaction of perceived human needs , within historically determinate social and material conditions . |
| 14 | These outcomes will also be very much dependent on the personal , social and material resources available to the individual . |
| 15 | First , social and material resources are differentially distributed among the ageing population ( differential access to pensions , for example ) . |
| 16 | As stated earlier , subjective responses to ageing are also shaped by social and material resources . |
| 17 | the exercise of power is not the unconditional outcome of a Mechanical clash of wills but has definite social and material conditions of existence and is circumscribed through its links with other determinations in a social formation . |
| 18 | The results show that it has been possible to set up community-based placements which offer much richer social and material environments than the hospitals they replace . |
| 19 | Of the many factors that contribute to health and wellbeing , the role of social support has come to the fore recently as critical in understanding the relationships between peopleealth and social and material circumstances in which they live . |
| 20 | It ordered all competent authorities " to take measures to rectify the abuses and to guarantee the genuine exercise of the rights of all Bulgarian citizens without distinction of nationality , origin , creed , sex , race , education [ or ] social and material status " . |
| 21 | Second , the division of labour which is the social and material basis of all organization , is itself a source of conflict , as the specific goals pursued by different sections and units frequently differ , though each presents its interests as being most compatible with those of the organization as a whole . |
| 22 | Writers at this time were exploring the new social and material world in which they lived . |
| 23 | The nature of the theoretical and material resources available to the early designers ; the behaviour of its much-modified structure over the ages ; and the capacity of the present-day structure to survive earthquakes , are all of pressing importance . |
| 24 | The cause in both cases appears to be the strength of catholic — nationalist and protestant — loyalist popular consciousness and the way in which the cultural and material interests of the subordinate classes appear to be represented by the alliances themselves and their institutions . |
| 25 | Neither will the drain of cultural and material resources down the valleys to Cardiff , Newport and Swansea . |
| 26 | It is explicable , at one level , by their profound sense of guilt over their own privileges , cultural and material , for which the masses , as Lavrov wrote , had paid ‘ billions of lives , oceans of blood , incalculable suffering and the endless toil of generations ’ . |
| 27 | Amidst all this shaking and trembling , respectable opinion was also waking up to the fact that new forms of life and organisation had emerged among the working class — both in a political , cultural and material sense . |
| 28 | The football stadiums , the Bank Holiday , the Co-ops which boomed from the 1880s , the New Unionism and the socialist revival , the music hall , the seaside excursion , even the fish-and-chip shop , should all be added to this already impressive list of cultural and material innovations in this period . |
| 29 | In the vision of the military critic writing ex post , the uncertain temper of the men of Britain 's Eighth Army after years of consistent defeat becomes obliterated behind the imposing shapes of tactical and material considerations . |
| 30 | Future negotiations would deal with specific topics including " the cessation of all outside interference in terms of personal or material support in the present conflict " ; the grouping of heavy weaponry under international control ; and the establishment of refugee and relief centres for citizens of Bosnia-Hercegovina expelled from their homes , pending their return . |