Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] at large " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandys ' ‘ Articles of Religion ’ were well received by the majority in both major political parties in the House of Commons , and in the country at large . |
| 2 | What the general effect of their anti-Sandys offensive was on informed opinion in the country at large and in Whitehall in particular is not easy to judge . |
| 3 | ( c ) Government Bills Before a Bill enters the House , a government will have put its proposals in legislative form , it will have consulted various interest groups affected and it will have taken into account the strength of feeling amongst its supporters in Parliament and in the country at large . |
| 4 | By Easter heavy frosts had ended hopes of a good harvest that year , and in the summer and autumn food riots broke out in the country at large as the price of a quartern loaf — where one could be had at all — rose from 3d. to over 1s . |
| 5 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |
| 6 | It had become impossible for him to convince in Parliament , in the party , or in the country at large . |
| 7 | And , in the country at large , the administration is seen more and more as a high-tax collector . |
| 8 | Yet there is no question about the constructive effect of concentrating national attention on a common problem by reporting the situation in the country at large . |
| 9 | The British constitution was adjusting to the changed realities of economic power in the country at large . |
| 10 | This act made working-class males a majority of the electorate in the country at large . |
| 11 | Second , we should recognise that a two-party dominance in the House of Commons may not reflect the pattern of electoral support in the country at large since our first-past-the-post electoral system makes it difficult for third parties to break through into parliament in proportion to their support in the country . |
| 12 | Simply expressed , a relatively poorly supported centre party with well under 20 per cent of the vote , but with some eighty or so seats , would invariably be in government ; would be in a position to determine whether Conservative or Labour were drawn into government with it ; and would , therefore , be able to exert an influence over the direction of public policy out of all proportion to their votes and support in the country at large . |
| 13 | I think the game I think the game has done well in tackling that problem but I do n't think we as a society have done very well in tackling it in the country at large . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that that has been happening in the country at large and that they have now been rumbled . |
| 15 | Set at 24.5 per cent ( 0.5 per cent below the sales tax which it replaced ) , the new tax had caused much controversy within the ruling coalition and in the country at large . |
| 16 | The vote had the effect of removing from the top of the political agenda , if only temporarily , an issue which for many months had caused divisive debate in the country at large , and had threatened to overshadow Pope John Paul II 's visit to his homeland , due in June . |
| 17 | These developments took place against a background of growing activism on the abortion issue in the country at large . |
| 18 | In the country at large there was some pronounced hostility but it came mainly from one quarter and on one issue — churchmen and the religious settlement . |
| 19 | In the country at large copyhold was by far the most common form of customary tenure . |
| 20 | Beyond the sparkling bravado of Paris , in the country at large the inevitable distortions and corruptions that war breeds were readily detectable . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the Beveridge report secured widespread publicity in the press and aroused much discussion both in the armed forces and in the public at large . |
| 22 | In Austria , certain IVF doctors have been buying eggs from women in the public at large . |
| 23 | The subject in the USA is , therefore , still implicitly dominated by one major theoretical perspective , and given the dominance of US scholars in the literature at large , Realism can be said to be the major current approach . |
| 24 | Which Councils — more often than not called synods during the first thousand years — were ecumenical was determined not by the pope , but by their reception in the Church at large . |
| 25 | In structure the Western Church was hierarchical , with the pope at the apex , assisted in the Church at large by the archbishops of the provinces and the bishops of their dioceses . |
| 26 | The failure of humanism to generate standards conducive to the market economy can also be seen in the culture at large . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Interestingly , authors appeared in this group with a frequency more than twice that found in the population at large . |
| 29 | Blacks in the USA achieve success in sport in numbers that belie their minority status in the population at large . |
| 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 . |