Example sentences of "[prep] which the public " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enquiry into matters about which the public had consulted lawyers in 1977 confirmed the generally accepted division of work by lawyers . |
| 2 | The ability of a local authority to sue in libel would be likely to have a chilling effect upon the potential commentator in an area of public concern about which the public at large has an interest in receiving information and observations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These then are the origins and development of the concepts and proposals which have become the substance of the Maastricht Treaty , but about which the public has been notably ill-informed . |
| 5 | They are the means by which the public acquires information about the world and , more importantly , through which the public derives its knowledge and perceptions of current political and social problems and of the means to their resolution . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A general system of gardening founded on experience is a work of which the public has long stood in need . |
| 8 | In practice , the County Council 's network covered a wider area , but as important as that fact was its independence : it was a sign of the growing distrust with which the public judged the nuclear ‘ experts ’ . |
| 9 | They knew that designers would come and go but the real strength of the company was the creation of one brand with which the public could readily identify . |
| 10 | These ads contain a coupon with which the public can request more details . |
| 11 | The tide of affection in which the public had held Diana since she first came to their notice had begun to turn . |
| 12 | His views were later confirmed by SWWA 's own non-executive director John Lawrence who commented in his own report : ‘ There seems to be a culture in which the public are told as little as possible and expected to trust the Authority to look after their interests . ’ |
| 13 | The description of Jemmy Lirriper 's model railway is a humorous epitome of the early history of the railways , with their accidents , the way in which the public was treated by the various interests , parliamentary and private , early experiments in signalling , ‘ mushroom ’ railway undertakings , worthless railway shares during the mania of the 1840s , starting trains behind time , and surveying for new lines ; summarized as ‘ everything upside down by Act of Parliament ’ . |
| 14 | It is the way in which the public is presented with the facts , rather than the facts themselves , which almost guarantees panic and resistance to the proposal to look for extra resources . |
| 15 | A body of men and women ( a ) identifiable by reference to some register or record ; ( b ) recognised as having a special skill and learning in some field of activity in which the public needs protection against incompetence , the standards of skill and learning being prescribed by the profession itself ; ( c ) holding themselves out as being willing to serve the public ; ( d ) volun-tarily submitting themselves to standards of ethical conduct beyond those required of the ordinary citizen by law and ; ( e ) undertaking to accept personal responsibility to those whom they serve for their actions and to their profession for maintaining public confidence . |
| 16 | BY discussing in the preceding chapter the ways in which the public may perceive a problem as a ‘ legal ’ problem and the steps which the profession might take to assist in the identification of problems which require legal advice for their solution we have already indicated that we are concerned , in the main , with the provision of information and advice by lawyers . |
| 17 | Since the Harrods department store bombing of December 1983 [ see p. 32809 ] , the IRA had desisted from attacks on the mainland in which the public was directly endangered , and the station bombings were thus seen as marking a change in IRA tactics . |
| 18 | The press replaced trade unions as the institution in which the public had least confidence . |
| 19 | The presidential offices nestle behind this and a balcony provides a fine platform from which the public can be addressed . |
| 20 | David Beskine of the RA said ‘ This is not private land but open moorland over which the public has for many years had a right to roam . |
| 21 | I have a suspicion that several objectors had more than the local interests at heart ; those who have enclosed part of the lane and extended their gardens on to land over which the public have a right of passage . |
| 22 | The occupier of a private house ( but not the owner of a house who had never entered into possession of it ) would probably be considered to be in possession of anything placed or left in it — at any rate unless it was concealed — while the occupier of a shop has been held not to be in possession of a thing dropped in a part of the shop to which the public had access . |
| 23 | In places to which the public has right of access , save where the flow of information must be restricted by reason of confidentiality , members have an obligation to facilitate the flow of information and ideas and to protect and promote the rights of every individual to have free and equal access to sources of information without discrimination and within the limits of the law . |
| 24 | The true nature and worth of such pursuits may elude their contemporaries , since history tends to impose a time-lag on the degree to which the public can keep in touch with the sensibilities of the artist . |
| 25 | A road is described in the Road Traffic Act 1972 as any highway and any other road to which the public has access , including bridges over which a road passes . |
| 26 | Road is defined as any highway and any other road to which the public has access and includes bridges over which a road passes . |
| 27 | Although not defined under the Road Traffic Act it is considered that having regard to the spirit of the legislation that the definition used in other Acts would apply viz : Includes any place to which the public have access whether on payment or otherwise , e.g. fields where the public can park for a race meeting or traction engine rally , footpaths or bridleways ( unless the Act states otherwise : see section 22A ( 5 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 ) , or anywhere where the public could be at risk from mechanically propelled vehicles . |
| 28 | Although not defined it is considered that the definition used in other Acts will apply ie. ‘ Includes any place to which the public have access , whether on payment or otherwise ’ . |
| 29 | ’ Road is defined as ‘ any highway or any other road to which the public has access and includes bridges over which a road passes ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ on a road ( or public place ) called … ‘ 'Public place ’ means any place to which the public have access , e.g. a farmer 's field near a race course which is used for parking purposes on race days . |