Example sentences of "in public " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we seek evidence of television 's influence , we should correlate general trends in public opinion with trends in the content of television news . |
| 2 | In part that may reflect real changes in public opinion but to a large extent it merely reflects sampling and other administrative errors . |
| 3 | One report spoke of ‘ a low in public opinion ’ . |
| 4 | Party strategists acknowledge that the overwhelming weight of opinion polls has been against them — and that for Mr Major to win tomorrow he would need a movement in public opinion greater than that achieved in nine of the past 10 election campaigns . |
| 5 | It the belief becomes current in public opinion that in the arguments between government and opposition it is not really a matter of opposing opinions being presented , then the impression will increasingly gain currency that parliamentary discussions are just a game . |
| 6 | Ironically this change in public opinion came at a time when Arab terrorists were letting off bombs in Paris , which French people thought quite terrible . |
| 7 | The underlying shift in public opinion should not be exaggerated . |
| 8 | Referring to literature , painting and language , Jakobson shows how the conventions which guarantee a form 's verisimilitude and secure it in public opinion have temporal limits on their effectivity : through time , convention becomes cliche , picture becomes ideogram , genre becomes formula , and tradition becomes prison-house . |
| 9 | Formulaic genres and cliched conventions can no longer claim any purchase on vivid immediate reality , and hence lose their place in public opinion . |
| 10 | However , post-war industrialisation and the alarming rate of scientific and technological progress ( particularly the discovery and use of atomic weapons ) created a shift in public opinion that became increasingly evident during the 1950s and 60s , and culminated in the formation of various national and international groups dedicated to campaigning on behalf of the environment . |
| 11 | Judging from the trends illustrated in Figs. 1–4 , environmental organisations have prospered greatly from this apparently self-interested shift in public opinion . |
| 12 | There may , for example , be changes in public opinion towards the police and the reporting of criminal activity . |
| 13 | For examples of carefully worded questions in public opinion polls it is worth looking at the newspapers to see how very carefully the professional market research firms word their questions when they are asking ordinary people for their current political views . |
| 14 | That would have reduced exposure ; but it is so small a step from cutting the level to removing it altogether that perhaps that is now a wiser move given the shift in public opinion . |
| 15 | Of course , these gestures cost him little , but the gains in public opinion in Romania and the West were worthwhile . |
| 16 | Royal women , too , even though quite ordinary in appearance , may be elevated in public opinion until they are considered to be the utmost in charm and elegance — again difficult to live up to , when they are continually ‘ on show ’ . |
| 17 | Under Islamic law , rapists , murderers and drug traffickers are beheaded in public while convicted thieves have their hands amputated . |
| 18 | Around 10,000 homeless people sleep in public shelters every night . |
| 19 | His chances of accomplishing policy change will also be enhanced if he maintains high levels of support in public opinion polls . |
| 20 | Reagan 's campaign for governor in 1966 was a response to the same shifts in public opinion that Goldwater had attempted to exploit , but it was not only in political attitudes that southern California was ahead of its time . |
| 21 | Capital is an amalgam of party support in Congress , public approval as expressed in public opinion polls , and the margin of the president 's victory at the election . |
| 22 | It marked the turning of the tide in public opinion and , more notably , the defeat of any attempt at moderation by Mosley . |
| 23 | In one sense it was an occupation that Joyce had never abandoned , for he had held classes in public speaking for members of the BUF . |
| 24 | The Tet Offensive in 1968 introduced a new mood of pessimism among the American public , causing a rift in public opinion unequalled since the Civil War . |
| 25 | The employees in such departments are often out of touch with changes in public opinion , relying instead on research data which may not be framed in a context most likely to discover what changes of attitude are occurring in consumer habits . |
| 26 | Where a shift in public opinion is the public relations goal , then sophisticated research needs to be undertaken before and after the exercise to measure achievement . |
| 27 | Often such a panel gives early warning of changes in public opinion where they are consulted over several years . |
| 28 | The very questions used in public opinion surveys indicate the importance of the assumption . |
| 29 | Be suspicious of other PCs located in public access areas , such as colleges and universities . |
| 30 | The inconsistencies in public opinion point to the existence of a substantial section of opinion characterised by a cynicism almost as profound at that which lurks beneath the celestial rhetoric of George Bush . |