Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] public [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since April 1977 only net investment ( new capital ) by the nationalized industries , financed by actual borrowing from the National Loans Fund , has been included in public expenditure totals . |
| 2 | Of the 766 hereditary peers listed in Dod 's Parliamentary Companion in 1987 , almost all had been educated at public school , no less than 371 of them — almost half — at Eton . |
| 3 | The chairman of Oxfordshire County Council says the bridge would n't have been repaired without public support . |
| 4 | Llosa 's clear lead in the opinion polls , which had reportedly been eroded by public hostility to his saturation US$10,000,000 media campaign , was sharply reduced by the unexpected last-minute surge of support for the previously ignored Fujimori , a former rector of the Agrarian University in Lima and an independent newcomer , whose self-financed campaign promising " honesty , hard work and technology " was judged to have benefited from deep voter disillusionment with the traditional parties . |
| 5 | It 's been made even more humiliating by the circumstances in which it 's been done like public rape . |
| 6 | As a member of the Select Committee on Sittings of the House , I give nothing away — because it has been said in public session — when I say that consideration must be given to the views of the Lord President and the shadow Leader of the House about the timetabling of legislation , following some of the thinking on the subject of the Select Committee on Procedure . |
| 7 | The points that have been made about public expenditure are as far from the truth as one can imagine . |
| 8 | Many ‘ designer ’ potatoes , elegant , expensive and almost extinct , have been reprieved by public interest and a certain novelty value . |
| 9 | The estimated cost of the cathedral is FFr60 million , of which FFr35 million has been raised by public donation . |
| 10 | As stated above , the problem of desertification has been brought to public attention by famines that have resulted in immense loss of life , especially in the Sahel-Saharan zone of Africa ( reviewed in Glanz 1987 and Mortimore 1989 ) , the causes of which have been the subject of much debate and have recently been reviewed by Hulme ( 1989 ) . |
| 11 | Since nationalisation under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1964 , the exploitation of all coal reserves within the United Kingdom has been brought under public control . |
| 12 | By their statement of claim the council claimed , inter alia , ( i ) that the council was the county council for Derbyshire and pursuant to statute was responsible for a wide range of governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , and in particular the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( ii ) that in those issues of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ the third and fourth defendants falsely and maliciously wrote and the first and second defendants falsely and maliciously printed and published , or caused to be written , printed or published of and concerning the council and of and concerning the council in the way of its discharge of its responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( iii ) by reason of the words published in the articles the council had been injured in its credit and reputation and had been brought into public scandal , odium and contempt , and had suffered loss and damage . |
| 13 | ‘ By reason of the words published on 17 September 1989 and the words and graph published on 24 September 1989 the plaintiff council has been injured in its credit and reputation and has been brought into public scandal , odium and contempt , and has suffered loss and damage . |
| 14 | First , political attention has been focused on public sector pay as a major element in the growth of state expenditure and of the deteriorating financial performance of state enterprises ( see , e.g. , Dubois 1975 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 15 | Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 . |
| 16 | Last night Hampshire police confirmed that two fans had been charged with public order offences . |
| 17 | Those arrested have been charged with public order offences and will appear in court in June . |
| 18 | It was one of the most marvellous events of my life and the first time that any of my work had ever been put on public show . |
| 19 | The statement distinguished , as Butenko had done , between exploitation ( which had been eliminated by public ownership ) and oppression , which had continued . |
| 20 | Consequently , RUC officers have been subjected to public degradation ceremonies , and there have been threats and physical attacks on themselves and their families , forcing some of them to relocate . |
| 21 | This draft manifesto has been issued for public consultation . |
| 22 | At this point the whole incident could , perhaps , have been kept from public view , but plainly the Russians had no intention of abiding by normal protocol and were determined to alert the British press . |
| 23 | Rumours of such ‘ snuff ’ movies had been carefully fostered in the New York Press with accounts of private screenings at Mafia parties , and when it was claimed that one had been acquired for public exhibition , it was advertised with the slogan : ‘ Blood Money , the film that could only be made in South America … where Life is CHEAP ! ’ |
| 24 | In these respects there are some similarities between the way in which Kuhn views the paradigm of ‘ normal science ’ operating in the natural sciences and the way in which this dominant tradition has been established in public law . |