adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a modern myth
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Is it a modern myth that we are living in a classless society?
all-time/modern/design etc classic
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The play has become an American classic.
an advanced/modern society
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The Greeks formed the first advanced societies in the West.
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This kind of hatred and violence have no place in a modern society like ours.
be too bright/modern etc for sb’s taste
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The building was too modern for my taste.
by modern standards/today’s standards
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The technology was crude by modern standards.
modern civilization
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Technology is one of the benefits of modern civilization.
modern conveniences
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a hotel with all the modern conveniences
modern culture
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Computers are a part of modern culture.
modern industry
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Modern industry needs to be in places where there are good transport links.
modern language
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a degree in modern languages
modern languages (= languages that are spoken now )
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The school has a good modern languages department.
modern medicine (= medicine based on science )
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Thanks to modern medicine, these babies will survive.
modern methods (= methods used now, but not in the past )
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Modern methods of solving crime depend a lot on forensic evidence.
modern pentathlon
modern techniques
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Archaeologists now use modern techniques such as aerial photography.
modern
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Many people were against such a modern design in the old city centre.
modern/classical/medieval etc architecture
modern/contemporary poetry
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She finds modern poetry difficult.
new/modern technology
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People have no faith in new technology.
new/modern/up-to-date
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The factory has some of the most up-to-date equipment available.
prehistoric/stone-age/modern man (= people who lived at a particular stage of human development )
recent/modern/contemporary history
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The country’s recent history is powerfully told in this film.
secondary modern
the modern age (= from the 20th century until the present )
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the technical and scientific achievements that ushered in the modern age
the modern obsession with sth
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the modern obsession with celebrities' lives
the modern/modern-day equivalent (of sth)
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Horror films are the modern-day equivalent of morality tales.
the modern/post-war/Victorian etc era
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a collection of romantic paintings from the Victorian era
traditional/modern style
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The rooms are furnished in a modern style.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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It is interested in MIG-31 high-altitude interceptors, more modern submarines and help in building aircraft carriers.
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A more modern one is the prohibition of lotteries.
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Ballantyne's style is old fashioned and Golding's is more modern and up to date.
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Much more modern than anything else in the street, they were well designed and built in glossy red brick.
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It will be given a sleeker, more modern look-again following the lead set by the latest R1150R.
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Certainly, more modern uses of the survey method have disregarded some of the rather naive methodological assumptions of the early surveys.
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The Kozloduy complex also includes two more modern 1,000-megawatt units.
most
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On Broadway they appreciated the benefits of the most modern theatres in the world.
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Those with the most modern gear can land in zero visibility.
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A modern ship with the most modern communications.
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According to the most modern idea, a real myth has nothing to do with religion.
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All metals are monitored during alloying and before despatch, using the most modern analytical equipment in their own laboratory.
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In fact, our fleet is known to be the youngest and most modern of any major airline in the world.
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This is within reach of most modern multimedia computers, but that power may not be available on older machines.
■ NOUN
age
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Like football managers, conductors are a phenomenon of the modern age .
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From this demotion, the modern age came to feel severed from cosmology as no other culture had ever felt before.
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I don't think he's equipped for the modern age , quite frankly.
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Over time, his story became emblematic of the spirit of the modern age .
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And beyond these individuals, it raises the possibility of a Republican Party, tolerant and moderate, for the modern age .
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From all this intellectual turbulence the modern age was born.
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A society is being reborn, but one which does not articulate itself in the media of the modern age .
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Was our modern age of triumph destined from the start to be tinged with despair?
architecture
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Between the wars the idea of modern architecture was a heroic adventure which could actually improve man's condition.
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Now, thanks to modern architecture and a porous defense, neither is a problem.
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The austerity and uniformity of much modern architecture made sculpture superfluous.
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Contrary to one of the fantasies of modern architecture , brick and masonry buildings are far more flexible than concrete, steel-framed ones.
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The current architectural debate has served to polarise popular opinion on modern architecture .
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Why then should anyone want to conserve examples of modern architecture ?
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But here, similarly, Ancient architecture is humanist and modern architecture structuralist.
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Charles's attacks on modern architecture made him a hero of the silent majority.
art
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Tamayo's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art .
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Movies are the modern art form.
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The primacy of the female nude as a motif of modern art , from Courbet to Kruger, is examined.
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I asked why the history of modern art was structured in one way, along one mute, and not others?
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What do you consider to have been Matisse's most important contribution to modern art ?
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My blood dripped on the ring floor and turned instantly black, merging with the modern art collage of other stains.
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And when they pick apart the history of modern art , they attack modern art's most powerful institution.
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It is these that modern art , and science, is seeking.
culture
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Distinction does not provide a theory of either consumption or material culture as the form of modern culture.
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For the civic culture is not a modern culture, but one that combines modernity with tradition.
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Steiner and Sontag are in a sense correct about the centrality of homosexuality to modern culture .
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Up to the present day, modern culture has been almost totally Alexandrian.
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But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts, one social, one intellectual.
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Such inroads as modern culture made into the village tended to fortify this conviction.
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In addition, use will be made of a series of articles concerning the nature of modern culture .
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However, it is foolish to live with the denial of death, as modern culture tends to do.
dance
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From a child she had taken ballet and modern dance lessons and was naturally drawn to Medau after seeing a lecture demonstration.
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At one point Ronald was chasing me and I was pulling out all my modern dance technique.
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Among their routines as they trip the light fantastic at the Dolphin Centre in Darlington are the old time and modern dances .
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The fact that all the acts are the same couple of blokes is just the way it is in modern dance .
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Now Alvin set about creating in earnest his groundbreaking modern dance repertory company.
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He was more comfortable with the straight forward physicality of another kind of modern dance that Crumb showed him.
day
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I have already mentioned the influence of Barth in the modern day .
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A modern day Gothic of such purity that it is almost a parody.
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The 68K4 ... a modern day black beauty.
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He shows the impact of history on his modern day characters.
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They wanted to present a collage of what they had discovered in the format of a modern day local radio programme.
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A modern day off-shoot of it.
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The recipes though are the result of modern day trial and very lucky errors.
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In a modern day Sleeping Beauty, set in New York, he wakes a medieval princess with a kiss.
era
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Here, then, at the opening of the modern era , we have a quite well developed doctrine of popular sovereignty.
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I prefer a rendezvous without any reminders of the modern era at all, but there can be some leeway.
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And, in this modern era , the squad sessions are not restricted to instruction on technique.
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In a sense, the modern era of fusion research dates from that measurement in 1969.
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Carl Lewis of the modern era has won eight.
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In the modern era , players of their calibre would surely have followed the professional trail.
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In the modern era , most families must send both parents into the workforce to make ends meet.
history
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He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in modern history in 1911.
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Equally ironic was the fact that four years earlier Johnson had won the biggest percentage of the popular vote in modern history .
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The modern history of the Catholic Church has been immensely affected by that chain of events.
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And in 1951 Great Britain, for the first time in modern history , made leprosy a reportable disease.
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Early modern history: Political, economic and social history and the history of science.
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The United States is the most peaceful, least warlike nation in modern history .
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The rest is miserable modern history .
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This may have been the first time in modern history that a painting incited people to such public agitation.
language
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Our modern language and our modern writing have grown out of the language and literature of the past.
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This word, which was originally borrowed from a Celtic language , has been lost in the modern language.
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The now voluminous literature on modernism and postmodernism has been dominated by philosophers and modern language theorists and historians of architecture.
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The last group was used in secondary schools and in the modern language institute in Tunis.
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Parents and teachers are largely in agreement in terms of supporting the most recent developments in modern languages in schools.
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And the importance of modern language teaching will be very much greater.
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The Nuffield modern languages survey has not yet reported and the only available account is an interim report from 1985.
life
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The hustle and bustle of modern life occurs in the shadow of history.
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Freund is likewise recognized for his fascinating revelations on modern life using juxtapositions of subliminally connected images.
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Though these problems are a characteristic feature of modern life , they have been with us for a very long time.
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Singles may be peripheral in a sense; but their experience is central to the enigmas of modern life .
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These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life .
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Visitors know we made concessions to modern life .
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We think of the desert of modern life with the concentration on material possessions and its resultant poverty.
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All concerns about modern life were supposedly resolved by National Socialism.
man
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But it feels that the modern men have expanded comics, made them somehow more artistic.
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The only sign of modern man from horizon to horizon is the road we followed in.
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In these and other ways the implicatures of the title are developed, suggesting connections between modern man and the Neanderthalers.
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One can write about the past, but from the point of view of a modern man .
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A high regard for ivory has been part of the human heritage since the first appearance of modern man .
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Who could blame modern woman if she yearns for something more civilized than modern man ?
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I still don't enjoy going to the dentist but I have to admit that the modern men are wonderful.
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Now suddenly I understood the tragedy of modern man .
medicine
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The concerns of older people about their future health care probably reflect beliefs about modern medicine and priorities within the medical profession.
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Underscoring this notion is the fact that other diseases continue to go unnoticed under the very nose of modern medicine .
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In a way, though, that limited him and made him out of touch with modern medicine .
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However, it was found in nearly all those cancer patients whom modern medicine could not help.
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The clinical application of devices or materials which contact blood is of major importance in modern medicine .
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Similarly, the rise of modern medicine developed at the expense of midwives and village healers, most of whom were women.
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Are these rules unsuited to modern medicine ?
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Of enormous importance, Holmes: all the hopes of modern medicine depend upon it.
period
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It becomes a term whose reference is linguistic and whose meaning is not determined by the phenomenon of the early modern period .
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The gradual assimilation of oppositional art into institutional orthodoxy represents one of the failed utopias of the modern period .
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This construction of the artist as hero is a primary marker of the modern period .
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It rapidly became a staple, and has remained the major crop throughout the modern period .
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The modern period has left its mark too, literally.
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In the modern period some cycles or groups have also found their way into museums.
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But in the modern period , prestigious spaces had been found in which to celebrate machines.
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Governmental pluralism was not of course peculiar to the early modern period .
science
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On the other hand, modern science was used to list a new vocabulary of transgression.
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His proposal can not succeed without undermining the whole of modern science .
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For this reason he had encouraged Claudia to enter these new, modern sciences .
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Fanatical, uncultured leaders, little versed in modern science , can not give us a solution.
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Indeed, it has been an outstandingly successful theory and underlies nearly all of modern science and technology.
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Viewed through this ideological lens, all of nature appeared to yield to the triumphant structure of knowledge that was modern science .
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Those who accept the general orientation of modern science may well find considerable difficulty in coming to grips with this main point.
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The way of the glaciers allowed him to fuse traditional creationism with the insights of modern science .
society
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The source for the basic difference in taste is traced by Bourdieu to the different experiences of these classes in modern society .
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The Romantics had raised the alarm about the disintegration in modern society of much that is essential to the full human experience.
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Undoubtedly many of the apprehensions about mental handicap stem from the nature of modern society with its emphasis on achieving and competition.
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He observes, Those of us socialized in modern societies generally maintain an irrationally uncritical attitude toward new technologies.
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In modern societies , by contrast, direct symbolic violence between subjects declines.
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The varied strata of modern society present numerous challenges to surveillance.
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The dominant groups in modern societies , whose definition of reality is accepted, are not necessarily non-neurotic in Freud's sense.
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He has suggested that the socially held beliefs of modern society are qualitatively different from those of previous societies.
standard
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Outside school - and maritime mishaps - community life was restricted when compared to modern standards .
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Such systems were usually, by modern standards , inequitable, exploitive, rigid, and inefficient.
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Boxers fought an enormous number of contests by modern standards to satisfy a working-class public who wanted to see regular bouts.
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Will these peoples continue to live in poverty and disease, or will they be brought up to modern standards of living?
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Many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards .
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While slow by modern standards , it was considered fast in 1985.
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Although of limited accuracy by modern standards , the Scuds were reasonably successful at hitting large targets such as urban settlements.
state
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The solid financial foundations required by a modern state had not been laid by 1603.
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But, at the same time, the apparatus of the modern State imposed a new order which strictly limited such freedom.
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Ever since the emergence of the modern state Tilly et al. 1975.
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But it would be highly destabilising for any modern state .
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The analytical techniques available to the bureaucracies of modern states are increasingly sophisticated.
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It is the provision of welfare, however, which distinguishes the modern state from previous states.
style
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Daniel Hersheson then set to work on Pamela's hair, cutting it into a more tailored and modern style .
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Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles , and prices to fit any budget.
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A.R. What do you feel about working in the more modern style of play after your classical work with Stratford?
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Classic and modern styles , glowing with lights, colour, and gilding.
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Modern style After studying the above ballets it may well be asked what is modern style?
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Each is furnished in a modern style with private facilities and at least one balcony.
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He led Coffin to a bright back kitchen, furnished in the most modern style , with new canary-yellow paint.
technology
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It's the age old battle of traditional skills versus modern technology .
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By using and learning about the hardware and software, developing country professionals will become familiar with a variety of modern technologies .
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They are quicker-thinking and have a grasp of modern technology .
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The arts, too, have been transformed by modern technology , though to a lesser extent than industry.
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The younger generation is used to Computer Assisted Learning and other modern technology which is an adjunct to learning.
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Its industries could not have failed to be impressive, since they have benefited from the latest advances of modern technology .
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It is modern technology all wrapped up without the cable to trip over, and the restriction of power point locations.
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Given modern technology , firms can be flexible vis-a-vis the market and vis-a-vis government plans.
times
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This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times .
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On the street, amid the detritus of modern times , he was unknown.
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If we think those ancient people were silly, we should look to ourselves in modern times .
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It had never happened before, not in modern times .
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Again, in modern times office-staff attend to all calls and enquiries; who would, or could, breach these defences?
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But computerised turnstile operations have made it almost impossible to fiddle the attendance figures in modern times .
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It has been restored but not altered a great deal in modern times .
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In modern times , the demands we make have changed in some ways.
version
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This effect is well established empirically and is dealt with by all modern versions of the standard associative model.
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Today, modern versions of windmills, called wind turbines, are used to create electricity.
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And out of this fascination with man two modern versions of him are born.
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Sun saloon 10, a modern version of the old cross-bench car, upon delivery in 1939.
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The modern versions of Taylorism are expressed in terms of job design and work study.
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They are, ironically, the modern version of the church of the Middle Ages.
world
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As a criticism of the modern world , Fantasia of the Unconscious is a book to keep at hand and re-read.
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The development of printing was one of the most important events in the making of our modern world .
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Mathematics is becoming increasingly important in its applications and uses in the modern world .
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We shall lead up to it by starting where the modern world began, with the scientific revolution.
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This latest act of outrage reminds us of one of the great burdens of the modern world .
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Who is kidding whom that a middle-size country such as the United Kingdom is sovereign in the modern world ?
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These groups have apparently been isolated from other humans for long periods of time and have no knowledge of the modern world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a modern computer network
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Doherty is a professor of modern European history.
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Drugs have become the plague of the modern world.
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He'll receive the most modern medical treatment.
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I don't like modern architecture at all.
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I like both modern dance and classical ballet.
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Many criticisms have been made of modern farming methods.
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Seattle has a very modern public transportation system.
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The company occupies a bright, modern office building in the heart of the city.
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the horrors of modern warfare
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The most compelling work in the modern British theater is being created in the smaller and non-profit theaters.
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The prince is known for his critical views of modern architecture.
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The pyramids are a remarkable piece of engineering, even judged by modern standards.
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They're a very modern couple -- he stays at home with the kids and she goes out to work.
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We want to create a modern and uncluttered look in the new kitchen.
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Your work was my first route into an understanding of modern art.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the mills additional factors have been rationalisation and the use of more modern machinery.
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The 1908 Act is an obsolete restriction that is not appropriate for modern mining methods.
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The root of the modern use of the term ideology lies with Marx.
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They will go anywhere in the world to research issues of concern to modern Christians.