Example sentences of "[prep] [art] population at large " in BNC.
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| 1 | This affluence was made possible not only by higher wages ( in real terms ) but because new mass markets in non-essential goods were also opened up for the population at large . |
| 2 | The elderly are themselves decentralizing , it seems , in consequence of the growing attraction of large south-coast towns for the population at large . |
| 3 | No politician could have bettered it : ‘ Experience has taught us the fallibility of the assertion that crime rates amongst those of West Indian origin are no higher than those of the population at large . ’ |
| 4 | More than ever before , this was a war in which one side was strongly supported by the mass of the population at large , sufficiently so for the New Model Army to be recruited from the mass of the peasantry in selected regions and to aspire to a meritocratic , rather than aristocratic , officer corps . |
| 5 | By comparison with the scores from the sample , the child 's performance can then be judged as high , low or average , and , by inference , high , low or average in respect of the population at large . |
| 6 | It is perhaps a little too easily accepted by most commentators that because of the desire of the population at large to receive some immediate economic benefit from having won the war there was no alternative to seeking an American loan . |
| 7 | Thirdly , regulatory agencies are specialist enforcement authorities , having a finite domain of control , consisting of particular behaviour and involving only a segment of the population at large , defined by the kind of economic activity subject to regulation . |
| 8 | For its part , the House of Lords was able to exert an influence in the context of a restricted franchise and a distribution of parliamentary seats that bore less and less relation to the actual distribution of the population at large . |
| 9 | The information will be compared with the picture of attitudes of the population at large gained from the annual British Social Attitudes survey ( supported by the Economic and Social Research Council ) and other sources . |
| 10 | Much was done by the upper classes to cultivate the political awareness of the population at large , through various forms of propaganda ranging from tracts , newspapers , sermons , through to public celebrations and civic rituals . |
| 11 | It has been the policy of successive Health Ministers to reduce smoking because of the benefits to the health of the population at large and reduced cost to the health service of having less smoking-related illness to deal with . |
| 12 | The idea of socialism , so passionately affirmed by the Bennite multitudes , attracted less and less support amongst the population at large . |
| 13 | Religion was the political issue which aroused the most passionate emotions amongst the population at large . |
| 14 | At the time of the Restoration itself Anglican-Royalist sentiment was strong not only amongst the gentry but also amongst the population at large , whilst there was a marked reaction against the Whigs and in favour of the Tories following the defeat of the Parliamentary Exclusion movement . |
| 15 | Again , this is unlikely to win any favour with the population at large . |
| 16 | The elimination of prostitution was a simple matter , the social revolution took care of that , but there remained the problem of infection in the population at large . |
| 17 | Interestingly , authors appeared in this group with a frequency more than twice that found in the population at large . |
| 18 | Blacks in the USA achieve success in sport in numbers that belie their minority status in the population at large . |
| 19 | According to Annett ( 1975 ) the incidence of left or right sided speech representation among sinistrals should be considered a function of the proportion of sinistrals in the population at large . |
| 20 | Moreover , this has taken place against the policies of the previous party government so entrenching the instability of adversary politics as the price to be paid for a strength that really works against the moderate majority in the population at large . |
| 21 | There is little sentiment in the population at large for attacks upon the position of the monarchy , and the " fact " that we have a constitutional monarchy contains within itself the idea that the Crown has no personal political power but exercises prerogatives solely on the advice of ministers responsible to Parliament . |
| 22 | His difficulty is that , as the election results showed , there is little optimism left in the population at large . |
| 23 | Innovations in military and naval technology — of which there were an increasing number as time passed — further increased the burdens to be imposed upon the population at large . |
| 24 | Finally , to the extent that political authority is justified by its ability to co-ordinate the activities of large populations , the vindication of its claim to authority over any one individual may depend on its having legitimate authority over the population at large . |
| 25 | In practice the new discourse was addressed not to the population at large but to potential members of an elite of " the educated " . |
| 26 | Okay how we 're going , how have we attempted to deliver the goods to the population at large ? |
| 27 | But we know far too little to generalize the effect of their habits on the population at large , and of marriage among the lower classes we know next to nothing . |
| 28 | Governments have to govern people , and not only do their policies have a direct impact on the population at large , and are likely to be shaped to some degree by an awareness of what that impact might be , but policies can also be a response to pressures or problems that emerge out of society . |
| 29 | Religion and war are two obvious areas where government policy could have a direct impact on the population at large , and these were the two major sources of party conflict at this time . |
| 30 | The idea originated with the observation that it was more common among those with coeliac disease than among the population at large . |