Example sentences of "of [art] population at large " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |