Example sentences of "the [noun] to public " in BNC.

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1 Be that as it may , the major work of planning for the change to public ownership was certainly delegated to the men the Labour Government intended to appoint to the Central Authority .
2 The amendment also provided for the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and allowed for the recreation of the post of Prime Minister ( the functions of this post having been taken over by the President in 1979 ) .
3 As part of a process of " democratization " the Constitution was amended in 1987 to provide for direct election of the President and the National Assembly deputies , the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and the re-creation of the post of Prime Minister .
4 Individual conduct and moral reformation were seen as the key to public health .
5 It urged Parliament to sanction the acquisition of the necessary property and to submit the design of the offices to public competition .
6 The social opportunity cost rate This is the rate whereby government projects should generate a return at least equal to the private sector projects displayed by the government applying the funds to public sector investment .
7 After the defeat of the White Hill , Ferdinand sentenced the leaders of the revolt to public execution in front of the Rathaus in Prague .
8 The Treasury department estimates the tax break will cost the government around $70 million , an amount that would be far outweighed by the benefit to public institutions .
9 The attitude to public meetings by local antislavery organisations was one test of how seriously reformers tried to mobilise popular opinion .
10 But in view of the nature of the installations the implications to public safety were ‘ potentially tremendous it is fortunate no one has been injured . ’
11 ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’
12 Although the entrants to public sector HE do have a higher proportion from lower non-manual and manual backgrounds ( social classes III-V ) they are still in the minority ( Redpath and Harvey , 1987 ) .
13 Much of this Part of the Act is administrative in character , but it clearly has a considerable bearing on the scope of the rights to public meeting and assembly in Britain , and accords statutory recognition to the central position of police in the determination of the proper exercise of freedom of speech in public .
14 The full debate over the relationship of the economy to public spending is complex , and the issues are not easily understood or proven either way .
15 The increasing switch to populist methods , and the threats to public order and the political anti-semitism with which this became associated in the public mind , meant that Mosley 's movement went increasingly beyond the pale .
16 The trial of the Chrimes brothers in December 1898 brought the subject to public discussion .
17 The research investigates the investment made by the public sector in leisure , the limits to public sector involvement in leisure , and the development of the framework within which the various public bodies operate .
18 Reformers came to believe that many of the problems of government could be solved by the application to public administration of management techniques being developed in the private sector by large firms .
19 It is the risk to public order inherent in the defendant 's words or conduct that represents the harm struck at by the section .
20 When a mail robber was run to earth there — he was living with his sister by whom he had three little boys — the local paper was bombarded with letters from the outraged citizens of our suburban town complaining on both counts : the threat to property and the affront to public morals .
21 We had argued , to put it very briefly , that since one of the law 's concerns was the preservation of public order and decency , steps ought to be taken to remove the affront to public order and decency which was presented by the obtrusive presence of large numbers of prostitutes openly soliciting on the streets .
22 The threat to public library services in recent years from declining budgets in the broad area of public services has spurred them to increase their clientele , and convert more non-users to users .
23 Yet discussions of the threat to public service broadcasting have ignored not only the potential for change but also the deficiencies of the existing system which would make us question its benefits and its claim to permanence .
24 The authorities became worried about the threat to public order and decided at last to act against both fascist paramilitary provocation and anti-fascist counter-violence , a decision influenced by deputations to the Home Secretary from the London Labour party and the Manchester watch committee .
25 The Act was passed in response to the situation of conflict which had developed between fascists and anti-fascists in the East End , but had a wider purpose — to exert greater social control through increased police powers and the threat to public order posed by political extremism in general .
26 ( c ) The causation of the public nuisance or the threat to public order must arise out of the use of the premises for the sale of alcoholic liquor .
27 The Home Office sanctioned this official display of force , but remained unwilling to prosecute Murphy — his right to free speech triumphed over the threat to public order .
28 We have been warned about global warming , but even more urgent is the threat to public health .
29 This chapter considers these developments , arguing that they have an obvious potential to amplify , rather than reduce , the tendency to public disorder , and assessing their implications for the erosion of civil liberties .
30 The services provided have been conveniently listed , both in the paper by John Bunce of JMLS and in Capital Planning Information 's recent report Private process/public advantage : the value to public library authorities of special services provided by library suppliers .
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