Example sentences of "[verb] the public ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hall , at that time , also urged that an exhibition of the plans should be held to enable the public 's reaction to be obtained before a Commons Committee considered them . |
| 2 | In order to guarantee the Council 's legal responsibilities ; to preserve the public 's access to information ; and to preserve the clear channels of communication and a smooth exchange of information without which it can not do its business , local authorities need to give very close attention to who is responsible for the electronic information bases of the departments that are going through the process of white-collar CCT . |
| 3 | Mr Crook called the decision ‘ a very dangerous judgment which will only generate more secret justice and undermine the public 's respect for the administration of justice . ’ |
| 4 | This reflects the management 's recognition that the style of policing that occurs in areas like West Belfast heavily influences the public 's perception of the police . |
| 5 | It needs to be much more severe with outrageous advertisements but , equally , it should not obstruct the public 's access to proved specialist services . |
| 6 | But it was the mock-Tudor style which first caught the public 's imagination and appealed to the burgeoning market of more affluent self-builders who were happy to delegate the construction , says Potton 's PR manager , Richard Crisp , who joined the company four years ago after building his own Potton home . |
| 7 | After initially arousing astonishment , The Magic Flute caught the public 's imagination . |
| 8 | 10 years ago , Radio Sunshine achieved cult status and caught the public 's imagination , but will it be the same now it 's legal ? |
| 9 | While its peers succumbed to high interest rates and slower consumer spending , Body Shop , with no debt , continued to meet the public 's demand for natural , environmentally friendly products . |
| 10 | Its aim is to increase the public 's awareness of funerary culture and all things death-related by illustrating human attitudes to death at different periods of history . |
| 11 | To increase the public 's awareness of this is a major purpose of this book . |
| 12 | Decisions therefore can be influenced by these active movements , e.g. greens , peace , and feminists , which highlight issues and capture the public 's attention and thus bring pressure to bear on the government during inter-electoral periods . |
| 13 | Initially his management of this crisis had met with high levels of popular approval , but as the conflict dragged on it became a damaging symbol of American weakness and presidential ineptitude with polls clearly revealing the public 's dissatisfaction with Carter 's performance . |
| 14 | Information compiled by the author from a survey of 100 local authority environmental health departments in England , illustrates the public 's concern . |
| 15 | On one level , there is no faulting their conviction that popular capitalism has caught the public 's imagination as well as our money . |
| 16 | This immediately puts the farmer on the defensive and reinforces the public 's perception of them as a complaining , dissatisfied group . |
| 17 | Second , such censorship changed the public 's perception of war itself . |
| 18 | Essex Chief Constable John Burrow says the Service Delivery Standards initiative is ‘ crucially important ’ if the police are to continue to receive the public 's trust and co-operation . |
| 19 | That Kollwitz is presently regaining the public 's imagination as a subject demanding ‘ revision ’ is testament to the persuasiveness of her self-marketing in addition to the compelling emotional resonance of the visual objects she created . |
| 20 | The collapse of Drexel has drawn the public 's attention to over-borrowed companies struggling to service high-yield debts . |
| 21 | That marks the public 's revulsion at acts of gratuitous violence against innocent victims . |
| 22 | ‘ When a judge is unduly lenient it shakes the public 's faith in the legal system . ’ |
| 23 | Rather than reveal qualitative differences among the banks and draw the public 's attention to the bad-debt mess ( not to mention the responsibility for it of the finance ministry , which regulates banks ) , officials are doing everything they can to help banks sweep their problems under the carpet . |
| 24 | Nicholson ( 1989 ) argues that hostile takeovers tend to undermine the public 's confidence in the operation of the stock market , particularly in terms of dishonest practices ( a point of view endorsed by the Guinness case — see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 25 | If all the cases that attract attention , because they are argued in important appellate courts before public scrutiny , are occasions on which judges are scrupulous in denying that they are serving the goal of protected expectations through their decisions , this can hardly do much to reinforce the public 's faith in that ideal . |
| 26 | Labour would go on getting the public 's support by constructing strong unity of purpose and by its conduct as ‘ a serious , socialist , self-disciplined party ’ , Mr Kinnock told delegates . |
| 27 | Every once in a while an album captures the public 's imagination in a big way . |
| 28 | A Labour Party spokesman , however , has got round this little difficulty by asking the company 's current auditors and their predecessors what they did to draw the public 's attention to the problem . |
| 29 | If I do not get a satisfactory reply I intend to pursue every possible means to draw the public 's attention to this iniquitous state of affairs , which for a big company like P & O is an absolute disgrace . |
| 30 | However , it must maintain adequate liquid assets in order to retain the public 's confidence that deposits , i.e. claims , on the bank will be honoured . |