Example sentences of "in the [adj] public " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have made great strides in de-emphasising the beer parties , but not many people in the general public have noticed . |
| 2 | I must revive in the listening public their own sense of moving about in worlds unrealized … . |
| 3 | It 's no longer merely a handful of advocates who wonder why someone with such high-calibre material has n't made a bigger dent in the global public 's consciousness . |
| 4 | Today , lobbyists gathered at Westminster warning thousands of section eleven jobs are threatened nationally , but the Home Office says painful decisions are necessary in the current public spending round . |
| 5 | They have all played their part in creating a near siege mentality in the French public and media . |
| 6 | For example , the controls in the old Public Order Act Section Three over processions are reintroduced . |
| 7 | But this of course is an exaggeration ; it exists in the still-literate public — the customers , used in its correct sense , of the booksellers , and those who are in a real sense custodians of England 's literary culture , the staff and students of the Universities and large copyright libraries . |
| 8 | We have got terrific faith in the Welsh public , ’ John said . |
| 9 | Congress , President , the government have got no guts to announce publicly that their intentions to privatize the N H S on a date that will give the leading time with the razzmatazz and P R that they 've done before to sell shares , to sell shares in the British public in a public nationally held N H S , there will be no seats , there will be no Inspector Morses and others as there 've been with Telecom , gas , water and electricity . |
| 10 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |