Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun] [prep] large " in BNC.

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1 This one day briefing is particularly suitable for in-house presentation to marketing , sales and support staff who are selling into the IBM environment and for companies with large IBM installations .
2 The danger in this new drive that is a feature of many advanced industrial societies lies not only in raising unrealistic expectations from these areas of study but also in denigrating the contribution of the social sciences to economic growth and in neglecting the non-economic functions of education which are just as important to the well-being of individuals and of society at large .
3 There is no doubt that the outer few tens of metres of the maria are fine dust , but this could be the result of many impacts too small to leave visible craters and of dust from large impacts elsewhere .
4 Leeds ( 1984 ) , for example , argues that whereas all nucleated settlements ( or places in the present context ) have the same functions — ‘ facilitation of all forms of exchange , transfer , and communications while linking the nucleation or locality both with other localities and with society at large ( p. 295 ) — there is also a threefold specialization between places .
5 Good journalism can also stimulate change or action from politicians and from society at large .
6 New ideas such as the transmutation of species acquired political overtones because they symbolized a challenge to the existing power structure both within science and within society at large .
7 And within society at large , there is even more ignorance .
8 The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible .
9 Both in psychology and in society at large , masculinity and femininity have long been conceptualised as bipolar ends of a single continuum .
10 Some believe that Jacobitism was a fairly significant force both within the Tory party and in society at large ( especially north of the border ) , so that at the time of the Hanoverian succession there was a realistic chance that a Jacobite coup might succeed .
11 But the level of all provision of course is in terms of comparison goods , and in terms of large shopping malls .
12 In Japan the relationship of the individual to other individuals and to society at large is still governed largely by his or her membership of various groups .
13 There is overwhelming evidence from the PEP survey to show that local concentrations of the racial minority groups are associated with poor housing , poor jobs and low incomes , and among Asians with large and often extended families with a high ratio of dependants to wage earners and consisting of people who speak little or no English .
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