Example sentences of "matter [prep] [adj] public " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we reclassify companies as social enterprises such issues are then not only matters of legitimate public concern about which the public has a right to information , but also matters in which the state is entitled to intervene in order to safeguard the public interest and to ensure compliance with publicly acceptable ethical standards . |
| 2 | What matters is that Ministers should be ready and willing to come to the House of Commons when expected to do so in order to answer questions from elected representatives on matters of genuine public interest and importance . |
| 3 | Government time will be used to submit to the House for debate , official reports , White Papers setting out government proposals and government statements on matters of topical public importance . |
| 4 | My second are of concern is the limited scope of the qualification to liability for bona fide discussion of public affairs or other matters of general public interest . |
| 5 | ‘ Such gagging of bona fide public discussion in the press of controversial matters of general public interest , merely because there are in existence contemporaneous legal proceedings in which some particular instance of those controversial matters may be in issue , is what section 5 of the Contempt of Court Act was in my view intended to prevent . ’ |
| 6 | As Lord Lane commented : ‘ These were examples par excellence of public affairs or other matters of general public interest . ’ |
| 7 | There have been cases where matters of considerable public interest have been discussed after the press have been ordered to leave the court . |
| 8 | This protection of the status quo is a matter for considerable public concern . |
| 9 | When a matter of serious public concern arises which leads to a great deal of media interest , someone in central office says , ’ We must show that something is being done . ’ |
| 10 | Public ‘ patronage ’ , from revenues raised by taxation , has some continuities of function and attitude with earlier forms , but some quite new definitions of function , such as the deliberate maintenance and extension of the arts as a matter of general public policy . |
| 11 | David Pannick , QC , for Continental , told the judge the case raised a matter of general public importance concerning the powers of a Secretary of State to restrict reception of satellite broadcasting programmes that had been transmitted from other European Community member states . |
| 12 | In deciding whether to give assistance the Commissioner may consider whether the case raises a question of principle , whether it is so complex that it would be unreasonable to expect an individual to proceed alone and whether the issue is a matter of substantial public interest . |
| 13 | That was quite clearly a matter of great public interest and concern . |
| 14 | Car theft is a matter of great public concern . |
| 15 | The miners ' ballot counted as a matter of national public concern , a mini-general election . |
| 16 | Some field men have been in the job long enough to have seen the protection of the environment become a matter of considerable public concern . |
| 17 | It would not be compatible with the duty of the Secretaries of State to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales ’ , or with their accountability to Parliament , to abdicate from leadership on educational issues which have become a matter of lively public concern . |
| 18 | Peter Green describes his intervention in one recent matter of urgent public controversy . |
| 19 | The Speaker can be asked to agree to an emergency debate on a definite matter of urgent public importance . |
| 20 | ‘ The case is of importance both because of its possible effect on Mr Anderson and also because an allegation of murder made in a civil action , particularly after an acquittal , is a matter of justifiable public concern and interest . |