'Right, lad, stand up! You're going up to A2 landing.' Ronnie was slow to respond, so the screw dragged him to his feet, shouting as though they were on a parade ground. 'Come along, come along! Move yourself, you steaming shower of shit!'

But a condition of the deal is that NCT gets Persia rid of the £36 million it has out on loans, much of it to land reclamators specialising in such socially desirable activities as 'gentrifying ' run-down residential areas and flat breaking ...

In practice, however, the line between heterosocial and heterosexual relationships is rarely seen as rigid and impenetrable. Instead, male-female friendships are often seen — by others if not by the participants — as having sexual and romantic potential. In contrast, much social effort goes into maintaining the line between homosocial and homosexual relationships […]

[…] according to Polybius, the Arcadians, owing to the mountainousness of their country, and the severity of the weather, were very rugged and unsociable.