Example sentences of "from the public [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he retires then , it will only be from the public arena . |
| 2 | ‘ Lightness ’ was not an easy charge for a religious sheikh to bear , especially if he felt there was some justification for the charge ; and in his heart of hearts , away from the public arena , Osman might well accept the need for some self-examination . |
| 3 | Until now nuclear weapons , in the West at least , have remained hidden from the public gaze , in closely guarded silos or inside aircraft and submarines . |
| 4 | So too in some degree are the internal workings of hospitals , prisons , asylums , factories and offices screened from the public gaze . |
| 5 | In his last years , Stalin lived almost entirely secluded from the public gaze . |
| 6 | . Thought better by Jewry itself to withdraw him from the public gaze . |
| 7 | Professional views of mental illness , especially when manifested in the public realm , continue to be based on nineteenth century ideas about madness as something that should be brought under control and removed from the public gaze . |
| 8 | As I said , you do n't strike me as the sort of girl who hides her body from the public gaze , so I do n't know why you 're bothering to do so now . ’ |
| 9 | Raising up the wooden clouds to hide himself from the public gaze , he hurried trembling down the ladder and hid in the dark cart , under his quilt . |
| 10 | Pollitt argues that the model of medical audit promulgated by the leaders of the profession was designed to ensure that the process was " a nonthreatening activity carried out only by doctors and rigorously protected from the public gaze " ( Pollitt 1992 : 4 ) . |
| 11 | Out in the cold … far from the public gaze . |
| 12 | This room was rarely used except by posher locals , who were very thin on the ground , or on really big occasions when people overflowed from the public bar and snug . |
| 13 | Charles Darwin , for Dregs Ale , from the public bar at the Dodo Agogo Inn : Joseph Hooker has just triumphed in his debate with Bishop ( Soapy Sam ) Wilberforce over Darwin 's Origin of Species . |
| 14 | In the last section reference was made to the way in which the Unemployment Assistance Board , which was renamed the Assistance Board in 1940 , took over various functions from the public assistance committees in the early part of the war . |
| 15 | If motherhood includes them in the community of women , poor parenthood also excludes them from the public culture of their own generation . |
| 16 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |
| 17 | Francis showed how a similar separation and differentiation of functions , with domestic service being concealed from the public portion of the house , was repeated in a more compressed form in Victorian lower middle class detached and semi-detached villas . |
| 18 | Aristotle noted a distinction between income from the public land and that from the citizens ' private estates . |
| 19 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 20 | The hide is sited within the area marked on the enclosed map and is not visible from the public road . |
| 21 | Breach of the peace is no longer an essential element : all that is required is a defamatory statement of some seriousness , and " seriousness " may be inferred from the public position of the person about whom it is made . |
| 22 | Aszal says that he tried to call a doctor or an ambulance from the public telephone but was prevented from doing so by the guards . |
| 23 | Harvard salesmen would make inquiries at lunchtimes from the public telephone boxes just outside the building , despite the risk of getting spotted there . |
| 24 | He had been long absent from the public balcony of the Roman palace which he had made his stage , and he was now proving that he was n't in chronic decline , as rumour held , with a pox contracted years ago , but had merely suffered a passing dose of ‘ flu . |
| 25 | The 1988–89 Committee was particularly concerned — as , indeed , were the Speaker and many Members — about the possibility that demonstrations from the public gallery or grave disorder on the floor of the House might be shown on television ; it emphasised that ‘ deliberate misconduct designed to secure televised publicity ought not to achieve its aim ’ . |
| 26 | When questioned in the witness box about the murder of Sergeant King , Vernage laughed out loud as the policeman 's widow , Monica , watched from the public gallery . |
| 27 | From the public gallery , the three pensioners he had attacked nodded their agreement . |
| 28 | The two men — one screaming ‘ I 'll kill you , you bastard ’ — vaulted from the public gallery . |
| 29 | A cigarette lighter hurled from the public gallery struck teenager Christopher Lewin on the forehead and victim 's aunt Pat Thompson shouted : ‘ Kill him . ’ |
| 30 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |