Example sentences of "in [art] [noun sg] at large [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , we should recognise that a two-party dominance in the House of Commons may not reflect the pattern of electoral support in the country at large since our first-past-the-post electoral system makes it difficult for third parties to break through into parliament in proportion to their support in the country . |
| 2 | By Easter heavy frosts had ended hopes of a good harvest that year , and in the summer and autumn food riots broke out in the country at large as the price of a quartern loaf — where one could be had at all — rose from 3d. to over 1s . |
| 3 | What the general effect of their anti-Sandys offensive was on informed opinion in the country at large and in Whitehall in particular is not easy to judge . |
| 4 | There is no doubt that that has been happening in the country at large and that they have now been rumbled . |
| 5 | It is by no means clear that the Church and Queen position of 1710 – 14 was any more popular in the nation at large than had been the Church and King position of either 1660 – 2 or 1681 – 5 . |
| 6 | While in Germany ‘ there is much common ground between the Bundesbank and the government on economic objectives ’ , it is precisely because Pöhl knew that this national consensus did not exist in the Community at large that he and the German government insisted on means of enforcing German policies on the economies of the member states . |
| 7 | These establishments are sited in the community at large and are half-way between continuing treatment and a full return to the outside world . |
| 8 | These changing attitudes in part reflect changes in attitudes in the world at large but they also stem from the evolution of our concepts of ‘ mind ’ and its possible physical bases . |
| 9 | Attempting to predict the changes likely to take place in practices and in the world at large and their consequences for Institutional education policy , has been a function of the educational committees of the Institution and the centres of full-time education , all of whom have been addressing the question since early 1985 . |