Example sentences of "[prep] public [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Generally , the area concerned with administration is known as public or administrative law .
2 Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher said if her party were in power they would bring in a new type of rented housing , called partnership housing , which would cater for middle income groups wanting to rent rather than buy , built through public and private money .
3 Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher said if her party were in power they would bring in a new type of rented housing , called partnership housing , which would cater for middle income groups wanting to rent rather than buy , built through public and private money .
4 Pacific Telesis Group Inc , which wants to separate its regulated and unregulated businesses , has set an initial stock offering for the wireless operations of its PacTel Corp subsidiary , which is to become a separate company by year-end ; the amount to be raised in the offering has yet to be determined , but it has already said it plans to up the capitalisation of the wireless operations by raising at least $750m through public or private sources .
5 While the government does not foresee the need for pre-censorship of publications , films and video cassettes , it is the intention of the government to enact appropriate legislation to provide the framework within which an assessment could be made of the suitability of any publication , film or video cassette for public and private consumption with regard to obscenity and offending of religious convictions .
6 While the government does not foresee the need for pre-censorship of publications , films and video cassettes , it is the intention of the government to enact appropriate legislation to provide the framework within which an assessment could be made of the suitability of any publication , film or video cassette for public and private consumption with regard to obscenity and offending of religious convictions .
7 In a year of economic recession , the Government enacted an Environmental Protection Bill with major implications for public and private expenditure and produced a White Paper on the environment pointing the way to the allocation of further resources .
8 Thus , within the telecoms sector , graduates of the Paris-based ENST , which trains ‘ cadres supérieurs ’ for public and private sector telecom companies and operators , do generally better than those of ENST de Bretagne that trains ‘ highly qualified engineers ’ .
9 In terms of closeness to York , I take the general review view and I support the County Council that it is generally better if the new settlement is located closer , close to York , because that under proviso that it is well located for public and private transport .
10 A report of the Property Advisory Group outlines The Climate for Public and Private Partnerships in Property Development .
11 While the outcome of the battle between public and private is far off , there is no doubt that during the phase of conflict the viewer is the winner .
12 In Britain , the balance between public and private sector funding is five to one and individual rather than corporate benefactions form a ‘ negligible ’ element of the private sector .
13 There did not seem to be a half-way house between public and private ownership .
14 The conflict between public and private sectors is affecting relations between different bits of the World Bank group .
15 First , it drew attention to the need for a balance between public and private spending .
16 It is necessary here to distinguish between public and private dispositions , and within those two categories between legacies sub modo and trusts .
17 To begin with the distinction between public and private .
18 The success of such strategies is therefore usually expressed in terms of the ratio between public and private investment .
19 Ever since the ‘ permissive ’ sixties , the moral Right has been concerned that the distinctions between public and private morality have become blurred .
20 The ratio in terms of turnover between public and private service is 60:40 .
21 Further moves could also be made towards increasing the two-way interaction between public and private health care sectors .
22 It was the phrase , ‘ in private ’ , that was the critical one in the change to the law recommended by the Wolfenden Committee , and it is the distinction between public and private that also effectively separates the two major camps in all the morality debates in this period .
23 The Wolfenden Committee , in distinguishing between public and private behaviour , also drew a distinction between ‘ crime ’ and ‘ sin ’ , and concluded that ‘ as a general proposition it will be universally accepted that the law is not concerned with private morals or ethical sanctions ’ , and further , ‘ it is not the duty of the law to concern itself with immorality as such … it should confine itself to those activities which offend against public order and decency and expose the ordinary citizen to what is offensive or injurious ’ .
24 His lecture took as its starting point the distinction drawn by the Wolfenden Committee between public and private behaviour , and what it thus considered to be the proper role of the criminal law in these areas .
25 In direct criticism of Wolfenden , he argues that one can not make a simple distinction between public and private morality .
26 In relation to child care policy , this fear of undermining responsibility results from a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of parents , and reinforces the antipathy between public and private care of children .
27 The machinery of state officials is only the personification of the legal order , and the distinction between public and private law , espoused in many pluralist accounts , is largely bogus — an attempt to manipulate people into believing that ‘ private ’ law is apolitical or non-state .
28 But the division between public and private is very ambiguous and can not be drawn simply by examining the size of the public sector in the economy and assuming this defines the limit of state influence .
29 Pluralist accounts of the Japanese state for example underestimate the ambiguity of the division between public and private when they imply that individual rights in a liberal democracy confine the scope of the state to exclusively public spheres .
30 We make a distinction between public and private power .
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