Example sentences of "society at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hirsch is trailing his coat , but he is concerned with what takes place in society at large , not in college courses . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | But the government pays for repairing roads ; other road-users pay for the delays caused by congestion ; society at large pays for air pollution , noise and road accidents . |
| 4 | But what goes on between God and the individual is not always taken notice of by society at large . |
| 5 | The leaders of the community and the religious élites differentiated themselves from society at large by adopting these virtues ; monastic communities had come into being dedicated to their observance . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | It was not just about hippy society , it was about society at large . |
| 10 | The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible . |
| 11 | C. , on the contrary , seems anything but reluctant to deal with time and history , using postmodernism 's freedom to challenge literary forms and structures as a means of integrating into the text a much wider challenge to institutionalized forms and structures of power within society at large . |
| 12 | The loss of socializing the faith in the home leads to its loss in society at large . |
| 13 | This is turn generates unrest and disturbance in society at large . |
| 14 | For it has come to pass that through marriage certain feelings are communicated by the partners to each other and , more important , to society at large . |
| 15 | Society at large is naturally uneasy with the notion that doctors — even if acting humanely — may put an end to the life of a terminally ill person , whether young or old , or of a malformed baby with no prospects of survival . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As a result society at large has come to accept the devaluation of the economic role of ‘ older people ’ as defined by these ages . |
| 18 | The first wave approach to NHS management was seen to be increasingly inappropriate to the needs of the service and society at large . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Others refuse to accept risks from activities which , they believe , bring no benefit to them or to society at large . |
| 21 | But Albert Einstein has been deified by the scientific community and society at large . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A policy which will consider not only air pollution , but problems such as energy efficiency , safety , noise , the implication of different systems of transport on cities and the countryside and ultimately society at large , to establish which are the most environmentally sound and economically efficient methods of moving from A to B for the sake of both humans and the planet . |
| 24 | They have no interest in the wider Jewish community or in society at large . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We return to this issue when we discuss the implications of greater numbers surviving into their eighties and nineties both for the survivors and for the society at large . |
| 30 | In short , statistics relating to old people are presented in such a way as to spread a great deal of gloom about the future , not only for the old themselves but for society at large . |