Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] [prep] public " in BNC.

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1 The range of attitudes is illustrated by strategies that state , at one extreme , that ‘ all people should be provided with access to public transport services for three return trips a day to the nearest market town , providing for a journey to work in the morning , a mid-day shopping journey and a journey home in the evening … ’ , and suggest , at the other extreme , that all ‘ deep ’ rural areas should have a public transport service to a local centre on at least two days a week or that all sizeable villages should be served by public transport on one day a week ( Adams et al .
2 Its basis followed on from the Plowden Committee 's recommendation ( Cmnd. 1432 , 1961 ) that : ‘ Regular surveys should be made of public expenditure as a whole , over a period of years ahead , and in relation to prospective resources ; decisions involving substantial future expenditure should be taken in light of these surveys . ’
3 Wilson , who was not due to face a gubernatorial election until 1994 , but whose position as a possible future Republican presidential candidate was already damaged by his decision to raise taxes in 1991 , had been adamant that the deficit should be rectified through public expenditure cuts rather than by further tax increases .
4 The Life of Brian , like Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses , should be removed from public knowledge .
5 Airguns should be banned from public places . ’
6 In this way , all the shops reflect Roddick 's concern for the environment and her insistence that private wealth should be used for public good .
7 Just as there is some academic debate as to what discount rate should be used for public sector investment appraisal , there is also much discussion as to what constitute the relevant costs and benefits for certain of these projects .
8 A special congressional committee investigating arms and drug smuggling recommended in late 1989 that certain prominent politicians and officials should be excluded from public life or dismissed , or barred from entering the country , because of their alleged connections with such activities .
9 She stressed , too , that it should be held in public as families across Britain , from Cornwall to Orkney , were at risk from over-zealous authorities .
10 John Major 's inquiry should be held in public , not behind closed doors or with the usual excuse that publication would ‘ not be in the public interest ’ .
11 Bourdillon also addressed a question which has remained unaddressed ever since — that is , of the annual output of 24,000 titles ( 19,000 adult non-fiction ) in the British national bibliography ( BNB ) at that time , how many should be added to public library stocks ?
12 Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils .
13 None of these early productions had a great deal to recommend them artistically , but Steen always maintained that success must be measured by public reaction alone .
14 Under the risk theory , therefore , compensation might be awarded for public law wrongs , but it might also be awarded for action which is perfectly legal in the public law sense .
15 To start with a relatively easy issue , part of the funds raised could be channelled into public sector investment projects , of which there is presently in Britain a substantial backlog ( e.g. modernisation of the railways , energy conservation measures , renewal of urban sewage systems , accelerated house-building programme ) .
16 If Stockton , Langbaurgh and Hartlepool follow suit , the need to train and register bouncers could be incorporated in public entertainments licences by April next year .
17 Alternatively , consultants in communicable disease control could be based in public health laboratories and become their community arm , with the benefit of speedy transmission of microbiological information .
18 In either case the cost of producing the signal could be met from public funds or recovered , in whole or in part , from the users .
19 Under the previous law , the offence could be committed in public only .
20 First , any deficit could be underwritten from public funds .
21 It seems that the law 's answer is that notwithstanding the general rule about the jus tertii P's claim may be barred by public policy if to assist in recovery of the property would offend the court 's conscience .
22 Books on hunting may be banned from public libraries by a county council which has voted to outlaw fox hunting on its land .
23 In the absence of any legislative indication one way or the other , it must be assumed that the offence may be committed in public and in private .
24 Party officials may perform functions that in non-communist regimes would be reserved for public servants .
25 Grounds for the bishops ' opposition were that only parents and not the state should have the right to provide for the health of their children , that the state had no role to play in the physical education of children and mothers , and that individual privacy would be threatened by public use of their private health records ( Whyte 1980 : 213–14 ) .
26 The draft would be circulated for public discussion .
27 If substantial structural change is taking place , then , it does not seem to be following the lines which would be suggested by public choice theory .
28 ( 7 ) Proceedings relating to matters mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) above , including voting in connection therewith , shall be held in public , but a licensing board may retire to consider its decision in any such matter and the clerk of the board shall accompany the board when it so retires unless the board otherwise directs .
29 Conclusions regarding conditions promoting minority language-maintenance or extinction will be applied to public policy-making .
30 As amended the Constitution stated : " Elections will be held under public control and administered by democratically elected electoral commissions …
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