Example sentences of "[prep] public [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1976 the Lord Chief Justice , dismissing Bass Charrington 's appeal against a proposal to ‘ open up ’ the interior at the Romans Hotel in Southwick , Sussex , declared that it might be ‘ undesirable in the public interest to see more public bars disappearing and more mergers of public and saloon bars of the kind in question here … ’ |
| 2 | The 19th century witnessed the evolution of public and saloon bars ; the introduction of bar , or counter , rather than waiter , service ; and the legal licensing of premises , all of which had profound effects on pub design . |
| 3 | Consumer concerns 1990 : a consumer view of public and local authority services . |
| 4 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 5 | The IRFU 's South African links have been criticised in the past , notably when Ireland toured there in 1981 amid a storm of public and governmental condemnation . |
| 6 | Although he had also established a particular reputation as a hospital specialist at his large cross-plan mental institutions at Perth ( 1822 ) and the excellent Crichton Royal , Dumfries ( 1834 ) , Burn , by his own choice , virtually closed his career as an architect of public and business buildings by 1840 . |
| 7 | The marketing agents , Telemundi , have found themselves with the unenviable task of selling an event that has yet to capture the imagination of public and sponsors in a soccer-mad-country at a time when all media resources are concentrated on the approaching Olympic Games . |
| 8 | Despite Anne 's wishes , facilities are being provided for vast numbers of public and Press . |
| 9 | In terms of an element in their appeal antislavery reformers saw this line of argument as an effort to exploit the material interests of public and policy-makers and even slave-owners and therefore a second order argument only , despite their ability to relate liberal economics to a conception of the natural order of things . |
| 10 | To extend Kosa 's argument , I see the moral quality of medicine as residing in the alliance of public and profession against the common enemy , ‘ disease ’ . |
| 11 | When admission has taken place , however , the legacy of public and professional attitudes towards parents whose children have entered public care often appears an insur-mountable obstacle to any further constructive contact between parents and their children . |
| 12 | That level of public and political interest has never been rekindled . |
| 13 | The AT&T programme , called ‘ New Art : New Visions ’ , describes itself as the first corporate effort in the U.S. to help promote recently created work by living artists , especially the work of women and ‘ artists of colour ’ , the term now used to refer to artists of the many racial minority groups vying for exhibition space and for a dwindling pool of public and corporate funds . |
| 14 | Television had become a central issue of public and political debate . |
| 15 | Increased finance , additional staff and the integration of public and educational library services on a divisional basis contributed to these developments . |
| 16 | — Identification of public and measurement of opinions , attitudes and motives . |
| 17 | Other possible factors may include the influence of public and drug user targeted education and changes in attitude owing to drug users ' personal experience of friends and relatives becoming ill and dying of HIV related conditions . |
| 18 | 8.1 Elected members of public and voluntary bodies . |
| 19 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 20 | In this redeveloped wedge of the inner city , monotonous tower blocks dominate the skyline and encircle a cluster of public and commercial buildings : the shops , pub , community centre and local primary schools . |
| 21 | In the current debate about Maastricht that policy is worthy of public and Government interest . |
| 22 | It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) . |
| 23 | More generally , the instinctive drive for self-preservation led to the emergence of a range of public and governmental institutions . |
| 24 | Moreover , they fluctuate in their supposed order of priority , not merely from Government to Government , nor even from year to year , but almost from day to day at the whim of public and parliamentary opinion . |
| 25 | However , these increasingly centralized and expensive units only enforce control over a very narrow range of public or ‘ street visible ’ acts of social disorder . |
| 26 | It is reasonable , of course , for communities to impose limits on the circumstances of public or semi-public performance , provided there is also a degree of privilege attaching to performances for which the public has made an informed choice . |
| 27 | The private organisation is expected to take into consideration only those consequences of the decision which affect it , while the public agency must weigh the decision in terms of some comprehensive system of public or community values ’ ( Simon 1957:69 ) . |
| 28 | Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism . |
| 29 | The notion that there is a realm of public or political authority which can and should be separated from economic relationships is a pervasive one throughout Western political thought . |
| 30 | For the meaning of public or common part , see subs . |