Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] at large " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ancient knowledge of the existence , significance and power of particular places was preserved in secret as it would not have been acceptable to the Church or society at large . |
| 2 | To the extent that these values were questioned , by young people , their parents , or society at large , teachers could see themselves as representatives or custodians of what was in effect ‘ company policy ’ . |
| 3 | The third category comprises those cases in which child outlook or behaviour which presents problems for parents or society at large itself has an evident or hidden sexual content . |
| 4 | The first of these is that while anthropology purports to say things about man and humanity at large , anthropological practice has fairly consistently been concentrated upon the study of " primitive " man rather than man as such . |
| 5 | ‘ The control of one 's own media in the context of civil peace requires voluntary outside intervention , professional training , and efficient communication channels with the state and population at large . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The control of one 's own media in the context of civil peace requires voluntary outside intervention , professional training , and efficient communication channels with the state and population at large . ’ |
| 7 | Domestic violence will be the pretext to ‘ tackle ’ what Labour designates ‘ the perpetuation of stereotypical attitudes towards women in our educational system , the world of the media and society at large ’ . |
| 8 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 9 | The first wave approach to NHS management was seen to be increasingly inappropriate to the needs of the service and society at large . |
| 10 | But Albert Einstein has been deified by the scientific community and society at large . |
| 11 | The supplementary guidance said too : ‘ The group should also take account of the ethnic diversity of the school population and society at large , bearing in mind the cardinal point that English should be the first language and medium of instruction for all pupils in England . ’ |
| 12 | It further notes that the curriculum should take account of ‘ the ethnic diversity of the school population and society at large ’ , and draws attention to the principle that as wide a range of children as possible should have access to the whole curriculum . |
| 13 | Now , at nearly twenty , he was still struggling to pass his Grade 12 examinations in high school , having been assured by his father , the school , and society at large that the world held no place for a boy without his Grade 12 . |
| 14 | Discussion on its own is insufficient and it requires legitimization by those institutions who hold this facility ( universities , examination boards , employers and society at large ) . ’ |
| 15 | The prevailing sexual division of labour and function in the family and society at large is accepted and simply transferred to the world of politics . |
| 16 | The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred . |
| 17 | The wider family , and society at large , do not have the right to interfere in family life . |
| 18 | The Cabinet noted that the examination papers appeared to have been deliberately leaked in an attempt to shake the educational system and society at large . |
| 19 | couple of decades there has been an unparalleled interest in the occult and astrology and Satanism , and witchcraft and society at large , on the one hand it worships at the shrine of science and technology and then it turns and pays its cash , and it does pay its cash , and its homage at the signs of the zodiac , and at the other various things dealing wi or are a part of the occult . |
| 20 | Sukenick has also gone on record as seeing writing as an essentially adversarial activity : ‘ When I grew up , I grew up with an idea of writing as a form of resistance to the establishment and culture at large ’ ( Sukenick 1985 : 139 ) . |
| 21 | a rigorous attempt to Think the limits of that principle of reason which has shaped the emergence of Western philosophy , science and technology at large … the activity of deconstruction is strictly inconceivable outside the tradition of enlightened rational critique whose classic formulations are still to be found in Kant ( Norris 's italics ) . |