Example sentences of "public at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The extraordinary collection of 20th century art that opens this month to the public at New Hall , Cambridge gives us all a chance to see how rich this history is and much of what we have been missing .
2 The mill is now owned and maintained by Beverley Borough Council and is open to the public at certain times of the year .
3 Parts of the moorland — some would say too many — are used as military training areas and are closed to the public at certain times .
4 The lighthouse is open to the public at certain times .
5 So every hotel has its own spring and therapeutic installations which are , however , available to the general public at certain times of the day .
6 The gardens opened to the public at Great Ouseburn , near York , raised £1,689 and attracted nine hundred people to look round .
7 The house and most of the surrounding parkland is open to the public at advertised times only .
8 Nevertheless , professionalism on American lines is still the ideal that academic administrators uphold , since it can indicate to sceptical politicians and the public at large that universities are engaged in the visible activity which generates ‘ performance-indicators ’ .
9 He offers Conservatives and the public at large a picture of equal opportunity for all .
10 Television bias was not the cause of declining expectations of Alliance success : it was a consequence of declining expectations amongst both journalists and the public at large ( Table 7.3 ) .
11 To the public at large faith in the political process , already at a low ebb , will diminish further .
12 They may exist in favour of individuals , and in some cases in favour of a limited class , but , with the exception of the public right of fishing in tidal water , they can not exist in favour of the public at large .
13 Moreover , by 1935 , if not before , it was being made abundantly clear that anti-Semitic outrages and terroristic hooliganism aimed at Jews by Party activists were generally unpopular among the public at large .
14 Remembering that , whatever the indignation aroused by this or that programme , previous studies have shown the public at large is not convinced of BBC bias .
15 Innovators of ‘ informal ’ drama seem in fact to have failed abysmally in their attempt to explain their approach to the public at large and in particular to other subject teachers , headteachers and L.E.A .
16 The Special Air Service Regiment — or S.A.S. , as it soon came to be called — was at this time an established part of the Army Air Corps , though it was little known to the public at large .
17 ‘ The public at large must give grave consideration to a … a grave matter .
18 Michael Bridges , the scientific journalist who first revealed to the public at large that this project existed — and we all owe him a great debt … ’
19 This type of primary prevention is clearly welcomed by all involved with mentally handicapped people and the public at large .
20 This sense of wariness and unease permeates our society , and will remain a barrier both to parents accepting mentally handicapped children , and to the public at large accepting them within our society .
21 But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large .
22 His Court had been notorious not only for its exclusivity and lack of responsiveness to the public at large but also , as experienced by those who frequented it , for its tedium .
23 The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter .
24 The aim of the law of public nuisance is to prevent interference with the rights of the public at large .
25 So far we have been concerned with odours which affect the public at large , but consideration must also be given to the protection afforded by the law , to employees and other workers who may experience odours in their places of work , whether in a factory , office , shop , or educational establishment , etc .
26 At meetings in May 1788 , March and June 1789 , the Odiham Society , in its leisurely way , resolved to advertise its intention to educate two or more boys ‘ at the great School of Farriery in the neighbourhood of Paris , where children from every part of Europe are taught the business of Farriery scientifically and practically , and solicit the contributions of the Public at large ’ .
27 There are good historical reasons for this general lack of enthusiasm among the public at large .
28 If Delius can be considered under-rated by the public at large , which I certainly believe he is , then Life 's Dance and the Piano concerto , as two of his lesser known works , have up until now , been almost completely ignored .
29 Moreover it recognizes its duty to make such publications accessible to the public at large , and not to restrict access on any grounds other than legal .
30 The Court of Appeal had ruled that whether or not such material might be ‘ beneficial to those who were sexually repressed or perverted or deviant ’ did not make its publication ‘ an object of general concern ’ , since otherwise any form of pornography could be defended on the ground that it was beneficial to some people , if not to the public at large .
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