Example sentences of "of [noun sg] at large " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Spencer believed that social evolution was part of the processes of evolution at large and that societal arrangements were the outcome of natural causes . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For , whereas women make up over half the members of society at large , in higher education they are very definitely in a minority . |
| 13 | But , in the interests of society at large — including the due administration of the parole system — it would be best not to give them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | We would , however , expect a match between the organisational culture and the wider culture of society at large . |
| 17 | She has to take account of the views of society at large . |
| 18 | Is there a new generosity of spirit at large among artists ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |