Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] at large " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The loss of socializing the faith in the home leads to its loss in society at large .
3 Here the wider concern is the increased violence in society at large .
4 The Mega CD should be fun , though its only real effect on society at large will be a new set of designer tidy racks at Woolies .
5 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 ) .
6 She has to take account of the views of society at large .
7 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
8 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 .
9 It also seeks to throw light on the role assumed by planters and the planting lobby in society at large .
10 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 .
11 Is there a new generosity of spirit at large among artists ?
12 Hirsch is trailing his coat , but he is concerned with what takes place in society at large , not in college courses .
13 Over the next 13 years the Polish People 's Army was buffeted by instability in the Party , internal divisions amongst its own commanders and unrest in society at large .
14 What are the features of denial in society at large ?
15 The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others .
16 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 .
17 The ideology of family life embedded in the wider notion of ‘ respectability ’ was to become therefore an important element in the establishment of bourgeois leadership in society at large .
18 This is turn generates unrest and disturbance in society at large .
19 Because undergraduates could engage in off-campus activities without being supervised by the university authorities , they began to play a more significant part in society at large .
20 Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large .
21 These and other aspects of ‘ work structure and events ’ are related to a structure of interests , power and values in society at large .
22 For historians the politics of information involve creating and sustaining attitudes and values in society at large which will support and demand the retention of the information sources which will be the basis of writing history in the future .
23 The Sheldons do agree that there has been a loss of community values within society at large , although they were heartened by the support of the local community in Balerno after Paul 's death .
24 Sociologists are not agreed on the relationship between inequality in society at large and inequality within the education system .
25 The growth of self-help groups in society at large may also be cited as evidence that a sizeable minority find medical services inadequate for some purposes .
26 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 .
27 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 ) .
28 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 ) .
29 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 ) .
30 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 . ’
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