Example sentences of "[adj] or 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 | Is it biological , cultural or material , or is it the result of some aspect of personal and social experiences ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A number of Arab states , adhering to the concept of Arab solidarity , provided moral or material aid for Iraq . |
| 6 | Its being so means that more than usual demands must be made on available resources , whether human or material . |
| 7 | The second is that it does not adequately take account of the sad fact of life that health authorities may on occasion find that they have too few resources , either human or material or both , to treat all the patients whom they would like to treat in the way in which they would like to treat them . |
| 8 | But , further , we shall find that our conception of property relates to many things which are not tangible or material . |
| 9 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 10 | Despite the rather flippant tone of the statement , it does convey what many people regard as the main characteristic of services — the absence of a physical or material form . |
| 11 | Dimensional or material irregularities incorporated during manufacture and badly assembled connectors all cause deviations in the impedance relative to the nominal characteristic impedance . |
| 12 | But there is also a practical and political problem , since it is difficult to see how such a theory could speak in any way to the practical or material concerns of women . |
| 13 | Siva the Serpent King , patron of the Yogis , possessor of the ultimate wisdom on the earthly or material plane , insists that spiritual evolution through ‘ illumination ’ can occur in a single lifetime , thus eliminating a succession of rebirths . |
| 14 | However , scientific problem-solving and public policy-making are not the same thing , and Carter as a policy-maker was ‘ a scientific man searching for certitude in an area of human experience , that of political conflict , which lacks mathematical or material certitude . ’ |
| 15 | Total history seeks to reconstitute the overall form of a society according to some fundamental principle , law , or form , be it metaphysical or material , while general history despite its name is by no means concerned to produce a general theory of history , nor even a cohesive or comprehensive view , but rather to conduct a historical investigation according to particular problems , opening up a field ‘ in which one could describe the singularity of practices , the play of their relations ’ . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , 68% of owner-directors said that their financial or material rewards had not increased over the past 12 months ; 65% now work over 50 hours a week , 38% have considered disposal over the past year , and over half have injected extra funds . |
| 17 | Henceforth , the Slovene LC would no longer be represented in the LCY leadership or have any further financial or material obligations towards the LCY , and would function as " an independent political organization with its own membership , programme and statute " . |
| 18 | All of them show as Tate Gallery director Nicholas Serota states ‘ a renewed interest in abstract painting , often based on a distilled observation of the urban or material world , and exploration of that world by means of the camera . ’ |
| 19 | At the beginning of every avenue of progress , intellectual or material , stood the Church with the feeble Inquisition as a symbol of Spain 's distance from cultivated Europe . |
| 20 | The book is similarly cursory in its treatment of style ( a term that is never defined by the writer ) with not much attention given to a formal or material analysis of the work . |