Example sentences of "public for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atomic fission had been known to the general public for a decade ; the awareness of fusion bombs was only four years old , so the possibility of a ‘ third and revolutionary way to produce a nuclear reaction without uranium , as in the fission reaction , or million degree heat as in the fusion reaction ’ generated a lot of excitement . |
| 2 | THE towpath on the river Weaver is to be closed to the public for a fortnight because of British Waterways repairs . |
| 3 | By July of that year Lutyens had finished adapting a disused china room beneath the Throne Room for its permanent position , and the house was opened again to the public for a charge of sixpence ( 2½ p ) per person , this charge , as always , going into Her Majesty 's charitable fund . |
| 4 | Five students , aged about 20 , were filming the public for a project when they were approached by a man who asked to borrow the Ferguson Videostar camcorder . |
| 5 | For fourteen hundred years Hagia Sophia had been a place of worship : it was now debased into an ancient monument , open to the public for a fee . |