Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] public [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creation of a new public sector of higher education charged with teaching and researching subjects of a more vocational nature was timely . |
| 2 | The aspiration to distance the management of a massive public service of this kind from politics has simply proved unrealistic . |
| 3 | There is a very well-stocked general store incorporating the post office , a public house , the Bosville Arms , which stands on the site of a previous public house of several centuries ago , and a petrol station and garage . |
| 4 | But many believe that in spite of a growing public awareness of the trauma of rape , the legal process still fails women . |
| 5 | At all events the much more narrowly based British natural sciences — which admittedly enjoyed the benefit of an impressive public forum of both specialists and lay bourgeois , and even artisans — continued to produce scientists of enormous renown , like Thompson and Darwin . |
| 6 | PeopleSoft Inc is going for a secondary public offering of 1.55m shares for general corporate purposes including working capital . |
| 7 | The visual comedy of the episode is obvious , but in discourse terms Anderson is faced with a serious public loss of positive face ( Brown and Levinson 's term for one 's desire to have one 's wants and conduct approved of by others ) if he is unable to produce a question which appears intelligent and serious , and he is thus under considerable pressure as he speaks . |
| 8 | Furthermore , with a growing public awareness of the need to protect the environment and generate crop production systems that are sustainable , the social and political climate is right for the development of biocontrol . |
| 9 | A gang beating someone senseless with concrete is committing grievous bodily harm — a serious offence with an immediate public power of arrest . |
| 10 | Wind River Systems Inc , Alameda , California developer of the VxWorks real-time operating system kernel , has filed to go public with an initial public offering of 1.9m shares , 1.7 of them new , at a target price of between $8 and $10 per share . |
| 11 | Very clearly , the Prime Minister saw the speech as an opportunity to set the agenda for an extended public discussion of educational issues . |
| 12 | Software Etc Stores Inc , Edina , Minnesota filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of up to 800,000 common shares , all new at a target price of $15.50 a share and says it wants the $12m or so net proceeds to finance expansion . |
| 13 | Dataware Technologies Inc , offering software and services to the CD-ROM market in Cambridge , Massachusetts , has filed for an initial public offering of 2m shares at a target $10 to 12 per share . |
| 14 | The Commission suggests that the increase is due in part to a growing public awareness of the need for environmental protection , coupled with a lack of opportunity for individuals to appeal to national courts . |
| 15 | The conventions of the Hollywood combat movie , traditionally premised on a wholehearted public approval of participation and the inevitability of victory , were thus unable to cope with this unprecedented situation . |
| 16 | If independence exists in fact , then it implies that the perception ought to be brought into line by a clear public understanding of the facts . |