Example sentences of "[prep] public " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law was changed in 1989 after public outrage when a judge gave a burglar who broke into a vicarage and raped the vicar 's daughter a higher sentence for the burglary than the rape . |
| 2 | In this respect , it is useful to pay attention to what we might now term the human rights ' issue as one examines the handling of public — private morality in the Irish constitution . |
| 3 | 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 … ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , these increasingly centralized and expensive units only enforce control over a very narrow range of public or ‘ street visible ’ acts of social disorder . |
| 6 | You get people like Belson who was allowed to do a survey research of public opinion . |
| 7 | Consumer concerns 1990 : a consumer view of public and local authority services . |
| 8 | Steve Norman is a real-life hero to hundreds of Rottweilers , going against the weight of public opinion to turn his own home into a Rottie rescue centre |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Aware of the strength of public opinion , Mrs Aquino ordered flags on government buildings to be flown at half mast in a conciliatory gesture . |
| 11 | Thus , through the effect of public opinion , do his team 's standards have to be set higher and higher . |
| 12 | The kinds of people who were most aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who were most aware of them in the mid-term ( Table 7.6 ) . |
| 13 | The kinds of people who were aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who followed them in the mid-term . |
| 14 | Both our content analysis and our survey of public opinion suggest that allegations of anti-Conservative bias on the BBC were wildly off-target . |
| 15 | Polls in the state of public opinion and attitudes offered contrary findings . |
| 16 | The employers acknowledged that , in addition to the force of public opinion , another way to curb prices would be to establish a body ( probably a prices commission ) to examine particular prices and report on them publicly . |
| 17 | I will not go on to examine by the same criteria the other manifestations of The Thing , such as the anti-apartheid demonstrations , in which open breach of the law was widely condoned and encouraged by the organs of public opinion . |
| 18 | The overt expression of that passivity and self-condemnation is that a whole range of the voices of public opinion are on the side of what you and I call the criminals . |
| 19 | For all the concern over the level of public spending the British share as a proportion of GDP in 1979 was only at the mid-point of most western states . |
| 20 | Now normally I am not allowed to eat breakfast , because of public ( ceremonial ) duties . |
| 21 | The Nationwide Building Society felt that they could not increase their investment because it was linked to unchanged valuations and therefore the new ratio of public to private funds had to be higher than before , even though the housing association was prepared to invest some of its own resources . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The fears of a dominant personality , away from the core of traditional values , driving the enterprise on to the electoral rocks , are manifest in speeches and in countless polls of public opinion . |
| 24 | The fears of a dominant personality , away from the core of traditional values , driving the enterprise on to the electoral rocks , are manifest in speeches and in countless polls of public opinion . |
| 25 | Several opposition parties interpreted Mr Gonzalez 's attitude as defiance of public opinion . |
| 26 | Several opposition parties interpreted Mr Gonzalez 's attitude as defiance of public opinion . |
| 27 | The aim is to turn health authorities into discriminating purchasing agencies , seeking the best deal for their residents by buying services from a range of public , private and voluntary providers . |
| 28 | Until now they have represented a mass of public opinion which is noisy rather than articulate , and more remarkable for its courage than its ability to coalesce as an organised force . |
| 29 | A great many green ideas were produced by Labour that summer ; a ‘ green bill ’ to show up the deficiencies in Tory legislation ; making the quality of life the central theme in the 1990 local elections ; the mobilization of public opinion through the development of a network of environmental , countryside and energy organizations . |
| 30 | Even if Mr Kaifu can deliver a package , he will probably be doing so in the teeth of public opinion ( especially if a tax increase is involved ) . |