Example sentences of "[adj] to the public [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rationale behind the use of the NFV approach in the private sector is accepted by government as being exactly analogous to the public sector . |
| 2 | The NZ statements are produced in accordance with GAAP , and will be subject to the public sector reporting requirements that emerge from the NZSA 's Financial Reporting Framework proposals . |
| 3 | An assurance has been given to the unions that non-industrial pay settlements for this financial year from 1 July will be no worse than equivalent settlements in the Civil Service , subject to the public sector pay restraint policy . |
| 4 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 5 | The old climate of political opinion that was broadly hostile to the public sector had changed . |
| 6 | Most notably , the Spanish strategy was being implemented by a modernizing , socially reformist government , while in Britain the increasing pressures on the railways in recent years have come from a radical Conservative government hostile to the public sector in principle . |
| 7 | There is one feature that is included in the local government list of characteristics that may be unique to the public sector and that is the requirement that our public sector officials have political sensitivity . |
| 8 | The problem of devising systems of incentives and sanctions that promote good performance from workers and managers is by no means unique to the public sector . |
| 9 | The greater is managerial freedom on questions of pricing , internal organization and investment , the more likely are public enterprises to act in ways inimical to the political objectives of government , or as Feigenbaum ( 1982 : 109 ) puts it , ‘ to pursue strategies dysfunctional to the public weal ’ . |
| 10 | Similarly , trade unions are thought of as institutions whose objectives and practices are fundamentally opposed to the public interest . |
| 11 | Discovery can be ordered before the commencement of such proceedings against a person likely to be a party to the proceedings , and after the commencement of such proceedings against third parties , but not where compliance would be likely to be injurious to the public interest . |
| 12 | Baldwin rose briefly and magisterially : ‘ It is sufficient for me at the moment to say that every statement of fact and every implication of fact in that article is untrue , and in my opinion gravely injurious to the public interest , not only in the country but throughout the Empire . ’ |
| 13 | It endangers continued public confidence in the political impartiality of the judiciary , which is essential to the continuance of the rule of law , if judges , under the guise of interpretation , provide their own preferred amendments to statutes which experience of their operation has shown to have had consequences that members of the court before whom the matter comes consider to be injurious to the public interest . |
| 14 | It is invalid unless it is reasonable as between the parties and not injurious to the public interest . |
| 15 | But it is difficult to tell whether this is the fault of the Act , or due to the public backlash against young offenders . |
| 16 | More importantly , there are constraints specific to the public sector and to regulated firms , as discussed in the next two chapters , which may improve their efficiency . |
| 17 | Another request was made by the NVALA that Thorsen should not be admitted to the country , and he was indeed excluded ‘ on the grounds that [ his ] exclusion [ was ] conducive to the public good ’ , when he tried to enter early the following year . |
| 18 | It is quite possible that that arrangement is the one that is most conducive to the public good . |
| 19 | Among the reasons for these large numbers are that there is no right of appeal from the Immigration Appeal Tribunal to the courts ; that from many decisions by immigration officers adverse to immigrants , an appeal can be made only from outside the United Kingdom ; and that from some decisions ( such as some exclusions deemed conducive to the public good by the Secretary of State ) there are no rights of appeal at all . |
| 20 | Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity . |
| 21 | Appeals are excluded however where the Secretary of State certifies that the refusal of leave to enter or a refusal of entry clearance is conducive to the public good . |
| 22 | Nine Iranians were on Feb. 1 ordered to leave the UK by Feb. 9 , on the grounds that their conduct was " not conducive to the public good " . |
| 23 | Unconstrained profit maximisation is not , however , conducive to the public interest , or at least any easily defended conception of it , for two reasons . |
| 24 | In their judgement the court held that the restrictions implied in the agreement were not contrary to the public interest , that abrogation of the agreement would lead to booksellers being undercut by multiple retail traders and large library suppliers , and that many stockholding booksellers , notably the specialists , would be driven out of business . |
| 25 | The Disclosure Directive also allows competent authorities to exempt EC-listed companies from the requirement to notify the public if the disclosure would be contrary to the public interest or seriously detrimental to the company concerned ( provided that the public would not be misled ) ; this does not , however , exempt a person acquiring voting rights from having to disclose them to the company if a relevant threshold is reached . |
| 26 | In 1962 , the UK Restrictive Practices Court upheld the agreement , on the ground that its restrictions were not contrary to the public interest . |
| 27 | When parliament allows groups of individuals to exercise such power it should come as no surprise that they use it for their own advantage and contrary to the public interest . |
| 28 | ( The 1989 Monopolies and Mergers Commission Report on the Brewing Industry concluded that the operation of ‘ tied houses ’ by the large brewers was contrary to the public interest and proposed a limit on the number of public houses that each brewer could own , although the Commission 's proposals were significantly modified by the government . ) |
| 29 | In that case it was held that a journalist lacked standing for an order ( of mandamus ) that the chair of the justices should reveal the names of the magistrates who had heard a particular case , but that he did have standing for a declaration that a policy of not disclosing the names of justices who heard certain types of cases was contrary to the public interest and unlawful . |
| 30 | The genesis of these provisions was the widespread belief that the operations of share-pushers were damaging to the integrity of the markets , and contrary to the public interest . |