Example sentences of "the population at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fairly unproblematic to predict the number of older people in the population at future points in time . |
| 2 | The idea of socialism , so passionately affirmed by the Bennite multitudes , attracted less and less support amongst 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 | The permission given by the 1969 Act for no-fault divorce was driven as much by a profound rethinking of the sources of morality by clerical and academic opinion as by the determined pursuit of individual self-interest on the part of either the population at large or lawyers in particular . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It does so through the authority it exercises over government officials , and because the population at large is willing to see morality enforced , even in matters in which they are not subject to the authority of the government . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The idea originated with the observation that it was more common among those with coeliac disease than among the population at large . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The emergence of the Women 's Peace Crusade was symptomatic of a growing war-weariness among the population at large . |
| 14 | For those of us who focused our energies on lesbian and feminists issues we were to find ourselves marginalized and isolated in English feminist groups , amongst women whose racism mirrored the population at large . |
| 15 | Interestingly , authors appeared in this group with a frequency more than twice that found in the population at large . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Blacks in the USA achieve success in sport in numbers that belie their minority status in the population at large . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As princely chanceries evolved across West Francia , their output was welcomed by the population at large because the set formulae they employed offered some assurance of authenticity . |
| 20 | It may also lead the population at large to believe that , as there is no real chance , money should not be wasted to counteract genetic limitations . |
| 21 | These attitudes are probably not specific to the South Wales population studied as it seems among the population at large there is a general antipathy towards institutional care . |
| 22 | Councillors have better educational qualifications and are more likely to work in non-manual occupations that the population at large . |
| 23 | The elderly are themselves decentralizing , it seems , in consequence of the growing attraction of large south-coast towns for the population at large . |
| 24 | There is no doubt that the population at large has become more mobile in many ways . |
| 25 | Mechanisms of political control were backed up by a harsh system of regulation , which attempted to minimize all social , political and economic change among the population at large . |
| 26 | But the regulation of sexual behaviour also became a way of policing the population at large , and this combination of factors is clearly manifest again in the social morality crusades of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | In practice the new discourse was addressed not to the population at large but to potential members of an elite of " the educated " . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Reporting on the decade of change following the 1971 Census , the CES found : first , in those areas under consideration , there has been a population decline of 20 per cent , whereas the population at large has grown . |
| 30 | 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 . |