Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the public " in BNC.

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1 Nothing was left untouched where a change would put the club in the public eye , improve the team 's performance or , preferably , both .
2 The perceived decrease in the public 's generosity means that it is even more important for businesses , and I mean all business , not just the larger ones that have traditionally provided the pool of resource , to realise that their businesses would only succeed within a healthy society , and a healthy society means the support of business men and business women .
3 If we had really reached a state where a bloody and unprovoked attack on four unarmed members of our police provoked only glee and pleasure in the public then neither I , nor anyone else , would be living in a country we recognised .
4 However , Mr Spring , who co-chaired the meeting , said he felt there was no harm in the public being made aware of a loyalist bomb-threat .
5 In the darkest years of Soviet repression in Czechoslovakia , a group of dissident artists kept their work in the public eye behind the camouflage of a little shop …
6 They now provided Sukarno with a vehicle for polemic and controversy which enabled him to regain a place in the public eye .
7 He was all right financially — he had always been shrewd and he made his money in days when the Inland Revenue had allowed people to keep some of it — but his prospects of regaining his former place in the public 's esteem seemed negligible .
8 If , and some would say it is quite a big if , other policies can be used to get the right balance of activities in the economy , we can confine our attention to the narrower questions : are firms more likely to attain the lowest possible cost curve in the public or the private sector ?
9 Despite the widespread provision of automatic teller machines ( ATMs ) which has now been in existence for a number of years , there is an apparent reluctance in the public to adopt this facility wholeheartedly .
10 In every aspect of his work Caro is brazenly derivative , depending for effect on the assertiveness of scale , and is , in essence , trivial ; but , translated from the Tate Gallery to the Roman Forum ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 5 ) , he is this year the beam in the public 's eye ( would that he were only a mote ) , and thus inevitably the choice of Heaths and Fanfanis .
11 I shall be running the saloon — it 'll be like old times , and we 've the new barmaid in the public .
12 Merton 's emergence in the public eye has been steady , and somewhat at odds with the prevailing comedy spirit .
13 Few would disagree that the CAB has raised its profile in the public eye over the last few years .
14 There is an element of despair in the public 's reaction to the apparent spread of the disease , though the current political and moral debate about crime in general may hold out hope of an antidote .
15 American law , for example , provides a special " public figure " defence : however inaccurate a speculation about the conduct of a person in the public eye , the journalists who make it will not be liable unless they have acted maliciously .
16 This raises the status of the ticket in the public 's mind .
17 His standing in the public opinion polls plummeted as a result of his pardon of Nixon , and the 1974 congressional elections led to further decimation of Republican party representation — the Democrats gaining 49 seats in the House and 4 in the Senate .
18 A change in the public 's desired cash holdings
19 When it is set , the artist is immediately linked with an amount of money in the public 's mind .
20 Yet simultaneously rapists , and indeed all men who commit violent sexual offences , are regarded as particularly villainous by the majority of the population , and these crimes have a high priority in the public 's demand for law and order .
21 I argued earlier that the external managerial labour market is a potentially important constraint on managerial performance in the public ( and regulated ) sectors .
22 Sky TV 's broadcast put the whole incident in the public eye , even though Goulding was formally cited after the Disciplinary Committee watched a tape of the game last Thursday when dealing with two men sent off in that match .
23 Nor could the courts cope , and there would be a deterioration in the public 's perception of the police as a result of the disjuncture with lay conceptions of legality .
24 The campaign to keep the Kuwaitis plight in the public eye is organised from a semi-detached house in central London .
25 To build up a shop 's reputation in the public eye ( ie to make customers more aware of the shop and the goods it offers , and to convince them that it provides good value and good service )
26 Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so .
27 The mass media , and the television in particular , places the Prime Minister in the public eye as the government , and general elections have increasingly become personalised contests between rival party leaders .
28 That was matched by a similarly dramatic increase in public perceptions that the party debate had now focused on defence , but by only a small increase in the public 's own concern about the issue .
29 Other leakages include : ( a ) the holding of excess reserves by banks — that is holding more than the minimum reserve requirement ; ( b ) an increase in the public 's desired cash holdings ; and ( c ) a net outflow of currency overseas as a result of a balance of payments deficit .
30 I immediately put the fern into our hospital , that is on the kitchen windowsill , a position in the public eye where it could be attended to by my of the family .
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