Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] at large " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp swings in business activity , changing corporate cash requirements and the perceived need for industry at large to focus its operations , are all likely to produce opportunities for divestment and hence for the application of venture capital . |
| 2 | The English writer Max Beerbohm spoke of how the music-halls had ‘ grown up with reference to nothing but the public 's own needs and aspirations ’ , of how the audience was ‘ the maker of the form ’ , and of how music-hall had always offered ‘ a great chance to any student of humanity at large ’ . |
| 3 | Carmen Callil is to take up the new role of Publisher at Large of the Random House Group , continuing to work in particular with Chatto & Windus in London and Random House Australia , and she will assume the additional role of Editor at Large for the Knopf Publishing Group in the US ( Vintage , Pantheon and Alfred A Knopf ) . |
| 4 | She will continue to work in particular with Chatto in London and with Random House Australia , and she will assume the additional role of editor at large for the Knopf Publishing Group in the US ( Vintage , Pantheon and Alfred A Knopf ) . |
| 5 | Spencer believed that social evolution was part of the processes of evolution at large and that societal arrangements were the outcome of natural causes . |
| 6 | Similarly We , Us , Our can refer to the protagonists in the poems but it can also describe the opinions or reactions of mankind at large ( 59 , 60 , 116 , 118 ) . |
| 7 | Freeman and slave , patrician and plebeian , lord and serf , guildmaster and journeyman , in a word oppressor and oppressed , stood in constant opposition to one another , carried on an uninterrupted , now hidden , now open fight , a fight that each time ended either in a revolutionary reconstruction of society at large , or in the common ruin of the contending classes . ’ |
| 8 | The factory , too , is not solely a technical institution , it is a social organisation , influenced by political , social and economic aspects of society at large . |
| 9 | Marketing a school involves balancing a society 's needs for a cultured population against the immediate demands of parents , providers and consumers so as to maximise the school 's contribution to the well-being of society at large |
| 10 | We can assess roughly the impact of Freud 's teaching and doctrine on the academic and clinical mind , but it is an immense task to document the slow , informal irrigation of society at large by new ideas . |
| 11 | Furthermore , because the state fulfils this function , the contradictions of the formation are ‘ condensed ’ in its own structure , so that it can be used as a sort of map of society at large . |
| 12 | It seems inevitable that the social profile of lawyers is going to be markedly different from that of society at large because the social profile of persons attaining the level of educational achievement required for admission to higher education does not itself correspond with that of the whole community . |
| 13 | For , whereas women make up over half the members of society at large , in higher education they are very definitely in a minority . |
| 14 | But , in the interests of society at large — including the due administration of the parole system — it would be best not to give them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | DESPITE THE flow of Helm county histories and other recent surveys of the county game through its 100-plus years , we have another , its offered raison d'être being a compulsion to relate the fame to ‘ the changing context of society at large ’ . |
| 17 | We would , however , expect a match between the organisational culture and the wider culture of society at large . |
| 18 | She has to take account of the views of society at large . |
| 19 | Is there a new generosity of spirit at large among artists ? |
| 20 | Although the map does not reveal how far away they are , and thus their three-dimensional layout , statistics derived from it show a higher degree of structure at large scales — supercluster size and upwards — than CDM would predict . |
| 21 | Carmen Callil is to take up the new role of Publisher at Large of the Random House Group , continuing to work in particular with Chatto & Windus in London and Random House Australia , and she will assume the additional role of Editor at Large for the Knopf Publishing Group in the US ( Vintage , Pantheon and Alfred A Knopf ) . |
| 22 | However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . |
| 23 | With Motif at large in the Sun community , IBM and DEC are confident they could make inroads into the Sun installed base swapping out Sun machines for their own . |
| 24 | There are many ways in which educational institutions can increase their involvement with society at large and become a potent force in social and economic regeneration . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Hirsch is trailing his coat , but he is concerned with what takes place in society at large , not in college courses . |
| 27 | The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible . |
| 28 | The loss of socializing the faith in the home leads to its loss in society at large . |
| 29 | This is turn generates unrest and disturbance in society at large . |
| 30 | They have no interest in the wider Jewish community or in society at large . ’ |