Example sentences of "matter [prep] public " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became a matter for public debate , newspaper articles were written , television programmes made , and the London Evening Standard sponsored Simpson 's planning application to the City . |
| 2 | Both rulers and ruled may believe that some issues are not a matter for public concern . |
| 3 | That happens often enough to be a matter for public concern . |
| 4 | Mr Deputy Speaker my honourable friend is right that the allocation of budgets is a matter for the local authority and that is a matter for public debate er in the council chamber . |
| 5 | The spaces in a city are more valued , and their enhancing is more a matter of public concern . |
| 6 | But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge . |
| 7 | Accordingly , it follows that he should be concerned about the current account deficit as a matter of public policy . |
| 8 | He was over thirty : it was no longer an intrusion into his privacy ; it was rightly a matter of public concern . |
| 9 | The Town Council was then , as now , very strict in the matter of public morality . |
| 10 | What the doctor is saying is that he had to continue treatment , because it was right to do so as a matter of public policy . |
| 11 | This defence relies on alleging that the statement is a fair comment on a matter of public interest . |
| 12 | First during the seventies the position of women in society , an issue dormant since the 1930s , became again a matter of public debate . |
| 13 | It is a matter of public record that when a certain accident occurred only one day after the political pendulum had swung over and a new administration had taken office , an irate member of parliament demanded to know why the government had not taken steps to prevent such things taking place . |
| 14 | Once upon a time waste management was purely a matter of public health . |
| 15 | How she had learned that he had the painting , which was not a matter of public knowledge , is unknown . |
| 16 | The identity of the member States of an inter-governmental organisation is a matter of public record and the numbers are necessarily limited . |
| 17 | Although the eventual Report addressed general principles rather than specific disciplinary practices , it did reiterate Reid 's point that the " financial dependence " of the universities made the direction of their development a matter of public interest . |
| 18 | Obeying a rule is a matter of public behaviour , not the operation of a private mechanism . |
| 19 | The explicit aspects are those which are expressed by the attitude-holder about an issue should the issue in question be a matter of public controversy . |
| 20 | If this process was properly carried out as a matter of public law , then the consequential private law right of the plaintiff was simply a right to the accommodation which the council had decided to be suitable . |
| 21 | 1064 was to investigate a violent death that was a matter of public concern and in circumstances where it was apparent from the beginning that an inquest would be held and a prosecution might follow . |
| 22 | But it quickly became apparent to the practised eye of Brainsby that Branson required little advice in the matter of public relations — or , for that matter , in dressing up . |
| 23 | In particular , the more people 's leisure choices are ‘ privatized ’ — pushed into the home , made a matter of individual taste — the more they become a matter of public interest . |
| 24 | Aitken 's subsequent contention that this information was a legitimate matter of public interest , which justified its public exposure , would seem to most people to be unanswerable . |
| 25 | Having read the report , the next morning Aitken telephoned Hugh Fraser , then of course a Conservative MP , to tell him about it , to quote extracts from it and to hear his very firm agreement that the report 's contents should be disclosed as a matter of public interest . |
| 26 | Their Lordships expressed the opinion that in the absence of some exceptional circumstance such as bad faith or improper motive on the part of the Minister it was inappropriate for courts to intervene on the ground of unreasonableness in a matter of public financial administration of this kind . |
| 27 | As my Hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) capably said , a local authority does not have any such option because its dealings have to be a matter of public record . |
| 28 | Where it is a matter of public feeling then the voting system has a place — as a sort of representative jury . |
| 29 | The only history that the critic must master is the history of words ; he must grasp the full historical meaning of the language used in the text , including all its associations , and of the names to which reference may be made , but only to the extent that their meaning is a matter of public record about the culture in which the text was produced . |
| 30 | The thesis of ‘ The intentional fallacy ’ , that the meaning of the words in a text is , and should be treated as , a matter of public knowledge , seems wholly unexceptionable as far as the dictionary-definition ( the ‘ denotation ’ ) of words is concerned ; but it seems much more problematic when one takes account of the broader associations that words carry with them ( ‘ connotations ’ ) . |