Example sentences of "[prep] public money " in BNC.
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| 1 | Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach . |
| 2 | The loose association of the public library and its public ( compared with , for example , the university library and the university ) has traditionally required it to be as visible as possible ; and this is now further stimulated by the need to publicize an extended range of new services and by the need to justify its existence in an increasingly harsh economic climate ( particularly in the USA and the UK ) where there are competing claims for public money from the various public services . |
| 3 | The Montrose interest settled the question in this way through political pressure on the two candidates , for John Stirling was less than enthusiastic about sharing his responsibilities with Craigannet , and it was obviously hazardous to be joined in responsibility for accounting for public money with a colleague of whom the Stirling family had ‘ no good character ’ . |
| 4 | After all , why should anyone balk at accounting for public money publicly ? |
| 5 | If services of the right standard giving better value for public money can be provided , the resources saved will be available to meet other public needs . |
| 6 | But he added ; ‘ If we have to be accountable for public money then so too should the Ministry of Defence . |
| 7 | It could be claimed that it is unacceptable for public money to be used to fund the Commissioner , especially when it is remembered that legal aid is not available for legal representation before Industrial Tribunals , for example , for unfair dismissal claims . |
| 8 | Value for public money of trips abroad . |
| 9 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 10 | All kinds of infrastructure are being provided , both through the expenditure of public moneys under programmes organised by , for instance , the Department of the Environment and the Department of Transport , and through the provision of large amounts of private-sector capital in the case of such matters as telecommunications infrastructure . |
| 11 | To take another example : Hong Kong 's banks were rotten for lack of regulation five years ago , when a series of collapses frightened the government into spending billions of dollars of public money on rescues . |
| 12 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 13 | But Mrs Thatcher said it would be a waste of public money and an unjustified invasion of privacy . |
| 14 | A government-financed horticulture nursery in Belfast falsified the value of its plants for 13 years to the extent that more than £500,000 of public money has had to be written off . |
| 15 | Berkshire planned to amalgamate the 300-pupil Southlands Girls ' School in Reading with a neighbouring boys ' school , selling the site for about £7 million , putting up £3 million of public money , and raising another £3 million from commercial sponsors . |
| 16 | He asked : ‘ Who in the Government intends to take responsibility for this negligence on a vast scale , that is now costing vast sums of public money ? ’ |
| 17 | Who in the Government intends to take responsibility for this negligence on a vast scale , that is now costing vast sums of public money ? ’ |
| 18 | It would have to spend large amounts of public money to save face . |
| 19 | In a crisis , it would need a huge injection of public money . |
| 20 | Last autumn , a zealous policeman from Marseilles wrote a best-selling exposé of Socialist involvement in a huge embezzlement of public money in south-east France . |
| 21 | The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans . |
| 22 | He believes ‘ some form of integrated federation of the whole spectrum of voluntary sports bodies ’ is required if an efficient system is to be established for the injection of public money . |
| 23 | The council tax will produce just as many anomalies , revolts and howls of rage as the poll tax , each needing the balm of public money . |
| 24 | Labour did not formally oppose the measure in Parliament , despite backbench misgivings , but did criticise the use of £750,000 of public money to advertise overseas voters ' rights . |
| 25 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 26 | The Stop Hinkley Expansion group complained to the Inspector , arguing that this was jumping the gun and a waste of public money , despite the CEGB claim that if it did n't order these parts in advance , at its own risk , it would never keep to its construction timetable . |
| 27 | In 1939 , of 20,906 schools 10,553 were ‘ non-provided ’ , that is under some form of Church or voluntary control and yet receiving considerable sums of public money . |
| 28 | For as long as the most able pupils were , with the support of public money , taken from the comprehensive schools , the development of comprehensives with high academic standards would be frustrated . |
| 29 | All this has happened because enormous sums of public money available for drainage schemes since the War have combined with a revolution in technology which we have not yet fully come to terms with . |
| 30 | This letter , based on expediency and written in a hurry , without any of the proper backing of parliamentary statute , has continued to dictate the terms whereby millions of pounds of public money are spent on land drainage , right up until the mid-1980s . |