Example sentences of "[vb pp] the public " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the work is completed the public will have access to the castle once more , just as Lord Leverhulme intended 80 years ago . ’ |
| 2 | To the man on whose support he would now increasingly depend , he wrote a little before the end , ‘ It is not pleasant , Thomas Poole ! to have worked 14 weeks for nothing — for nothing — nay — to have given the Public in addition to that toil five & 40 pounds ! ’ |
| 3 | These were held in belated recognition that the entirely private exercise last time had given the public not even a token opportunity to comment on the various applicants . |
| 4 | ‘ The cameras have given the public the confidence that they will be safe . |
| 5 | The earlier attempt to discredit the police had not succeeded , although the way the police treated the public was by no means satisfactory . |
| 6 | Too many theorists have deluded the public by talking about one sort or another of ‘ Phantom Aesthetic State ’ ; in reality value in literature is explainable in exactly the same terms as value in any other form of human activity . |
| 7 | The drawback to both this and the Argentine scheme is that , having frozen the public 's savings , both governments will find it difficult ( or expensive ) to borrow in the future . |
| 8 | On one level , there is no faulting their conviction that popular capitalism has caught the public 's imagination as well as our money . |
| 9 | Authorship attribution studies of this kind have caught the public eye rather more than other types of stylometric inquiry . |
| 10 | ‘ If the celebrations are not cancelled the public will be well advised to stay away , ’ he said . |
| 11 | One thing is certain , Fergie 's plight has certainly moved a lot of newspapers , even if it has n't moved the public . |
| 12 | However , Mr Jeno Horvath , a member of parliament and legal expert , said parliament had a lot of unfinished business and had decided the public might be confused to see it dissolved but continuing to function . |
| 13 | THE right to apply for lenient sentences to be over-ruled has made the public feel safer , the Attorney-General told TODAY . |
| 14 | With reference to individuals in public life , if a serious allegation is made the public now expects the question of the truth or falsity of it to be demonstrated by the taking of proceedings , whether the proceedings result in a decision of the court or an apology and settlement . |
| 15 | The collapse of Drexel has drawn the public 's attention to over-borrowed companies struggling to service high-yield debts . |
| 16 | I do not believe frankly that doctors ever worked together to produce one solid coherent agreement that could have convinced the public . |
| 17 | If you have n't got the public on your side and there is a lot of emotional support for , if you have n't got the public on your side then the politicians can get away with murder . |
| 18 | If you have n't got the public on your side and there is a lot of emotional support for , if you have n't got the public on your side then the politicians can get away with murder . |
| 19 | On our side it 's , you know , do n't believe everything , anything , sorry not everything but anything you read in the papers , and yet , at the same time , every national newspaper on a Saturday night at about eleven-thirty gets a phone , series of phone-calls all saying , ‘ Please settle this argument for us we just been talking about the winner of the F A Cup Final in nineteen forty-three ’ or something , and that , you know , and , so we 've got the public out there saying ‘ Do n't believe what you read in the newspapers ’ yet , ‘ Settle our arguments . ’ |
| 20 | But our experience has shown the public did n't take advantage of the facility except over the Christmas and New Year period . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ( Little of all this would have reached the public but for two courageous soldier-MPs , Col. Josiah Wedgwood and Maj. Victor Cazalet ) . |
| 23 | My brother had enlisted in the Grenadier Guards , and was at Camberley , but my mother and sister were still in Merstham ; and it seemed to me that , in the event of a German landing , for which Churchill had alerted the public , a place as safe as any would be my Wiltshire village of Seend , where there was a delightful little Guest House , kept by a Mrs Earle . |
| 24 | Mr Roger Smith , the Action Group 's director , said the advertisement ‘ would have actively misled the public into thinking solicitors were providing advice when it was in fact coming from someone else . |
| 25 | It said 56 per cent of those asked believed the president had misled the public during last year 's election campaign when he said he would not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for his programmes . |
| 26 | Friends of the Earth accused the government of " caving in to pressure from property developers and abandoning proposals that would have protected the public from accidentally buying contaminated land " . |
| 27 | A HIGH Court judge has asked the public to help in the search for a small boy snatched from his nursery school by his mother . |
| 28 | In fact , he totally underestimated the difficulties he would have to face : in the 18 months since the APB was set up , the economic climate and spectacular corporate failures such as BCCI and Maxwell have left the public baying for auditors ' blood , and , although there has been a honeymoon period — somewhat extended recently by publication of the McFarlane Report — the pressure under which the new body has had to work has been intense . |
| 29 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 30 | He absconded at four o'clock this afternoon and police have warned the public not to approach him . |