Example sentences of "[prep] private " in BNC.

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1 In the first place , unlike normal litigation between private parties , the applicant has to obtain the court 's leave at the outset .
2 The arts continued to flourish , amidst growing argument over the role of the Arts Council , the right balance to be struck between the metropolitan and the regional , and between private and public funding .
3 However , equally important for Marx was the demonstration of a correlation between private property and exploitation .
4 Already in The German Ideology , and even more in Capital , Marx saw the forward movement of history as due to the conflict between private property and communal property .
5 He was also considering whether the code of practice which governs the quality of connections between private lines and the public phone network should be advisory rather than mandatory .
6 Fresh investigations by the NAO to be published early next year include comparisons between private hospitals and the NHS ; the privatisation of British Steel ; the sale of the National Bus Company and the effectiveness of invalidity benefits .
7 The Common Law rule was partly destroyed by the Companies Acts , and , under the Corporate Bodies ’ Contracts Act 1960 , contracts can now be made on behalf of all corporations in the same way as between private persons .
8 Britain has gone farther than any country in the West towards getting a balance between private affluence and public consumption .
9 There is a tax difference as between private investors buying such gilts direct and buying via a fund , such as ours , in that the former strategy is exempt from capital gains tax .
10 It would be sadly retrograde if the gap between private and maintained schools thus became greater .
11 The differences between private and public companies are significant , and go beyond just the size and name requirements stipulated by the legislation .
12 That may , in some respects , be healthy but it also has to be said that those reticences marked a division between private and public spheres which may have made compromise possible .
13 The dichotomy between private and public sector is not so clear cut as it may appear .
14 The offence this may cause is attributed to the fact that it ‘ crosses the line between private and public since it makes available … some sexual act of a private kind … for a voyeuristic interest ’ .
15 Such moves , some between private companies and others inspired by governments , can be seen as a further restructuring of the European car industry , faced with the increasing challenge of Japanese and other Far Eastern competition .
16 The disparity between private truth and public convention leaves them feeling that they are the only person having trouble .
17 Controversy erupted at the time over alleged juggling with export restrictions by Culture Minister Jack Lang and allegations were made about collusion between private art dealing and the State .
18 In general , the sale was characterised by more trade bidding than has been evident over the past year , while competitive bidding between private collectors was responsible for the morning 's most surprising result : £21,000 ( $31,500 ; est. £6,000–8,000 ) for Joe Tilson 's ‘ Ziggurat 1967 ’ ( lot 79 )
19 At the same time , however , liberal political economy in its antislavery guise sought to maintain the link between private motives and public consequences , to check the anxiety arising from perceptions of the divorce between morality and economic development in the era of industrialisation .
20 That comparison is made even more potent given that the large company tends to collapse the distinction between private and public power .
21 Secondly , because of the very great power which the government can wield over its citizens , the law has traditionally imposed on governmental agencies special duties of procedural fairness ( embodied in the rules of natural justice discussed in Chapter 8 ) which do not normally apply to dealings between private citizens .
22 With fast and competitive bidding between private collectors and dealers , Kokoschka 's ‘ Lac d'Annecy ’ went to a London bidder for DM620,000 ( £213,800 ; $384,800 ) .
23 In arguing for the relevance of the notion of autonomy in private life , she brings into question the demarcation point between private and public life which is assumed by most of the philosophical tradition she is working in .
24 From the early part of the nineteenth century , until absorbed in the new social purity movements of the 1880s , the Society for the Suppression of Vice ( founded in 1802 and known universally as the Vice Society ) remained the Victorian 's basic legal force against the obscene , and its work demonstrates the often close relationship between private vigilance and public authorities .
25 Similarly , an international organisation may have an interest in a dispute or proceedings between States , or between private parties .
26 There is often a stark contrast between private space for which tenants have responsibility for upkeep and the public space which are the council 's responsibility .
27 There are two important distinctions to make : that between contentious and non-contentious business , and that between private payment of fees and legal aid .
28 It is indicative of the lack of serious analysis of the artefact , however , that even for such a politically sensitive issue as the division between private purchase and state allocation , the implications for the subsequent relationship people have with those goods are quite unknown ( with the possible exception of housing ) .
29 In a partnership the partners are free to make any arrangement they like which would be lawful between private persons .
30 Table 3.2 shows that there is no difference between private manufacturing and private service establishments in their use of fixed-term contract workers and agency workers .
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