Example sentences of "[adv prt] public " in BNC.
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1 | Anyone who takes on public duties sets himself up for attack , and in Rees-Mogg 's case , the succession of posts was dizzying . |
2 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |
3 | Could this be the break that Virginia Bottomley is looking for in her battle to rein in public spending on health ? |
4 | Having noted the failure of the government to rein in public spending , the Fund set May 1990 for a further appraisal meeting to assess whether the estimated 1,000 million francs CFA could be released . |
5 | According to a report by George Chree , Kincardine 's director of planning , a third of the route near Aberdeen runs along public roads and is still in use . |
6 | In a public demonstration of his fidelity to the alliance he invited the Queen and Prince Albert to visit France , hoping once again that a meeting between sovereigns would dampen down public hostility on both sides of the Channel . |
7 | For example , attempts to introduce marginal cost pricing ( Treasury 1967 ) or ‘ verité des prix ’ ( Dubois 1975 : 31–2 ) are undermined by simultaneous government concern with inflation and hence with holding down public enterprise prices ( and there are problems in principle with the application of marginal cost pricing ) . |
8 | The decree allows the government to take over public utilities and businesses . |
9 | The decree allows the government to take over public utilities and businesses . |
10 | Tory transport policy is geared to increasing competition , widening customer choice and , in the long term , reducing state subsidy and control over public services . |
11 | In Western Europe similar lines of argument stress that sub-national governments are tied to national elites by networks of patronage , clientelism , and control over public expenditure . |
12 | Mirroring Sun Microsystems Inc 's efforts in this area ( UX No 386 ) Hewlett-Packard Co has rolled out a new range of ISDN connectivity enabling standalone workstations to communicate over public or private ISDN networks . |
13 | Landlords who wish to take over public sector dwellings have first to seek the approval of the Housing Corporation which has set out the criteria for approval in some detail . |
14 | Is he not handing over public assets to a few of his Conservative cronies ? |
15 | Calling themselves revueltos ( " those mixed together " ) , they blocked roads , including the main highway to Honduras , occupied towns , in particular such key centres as Matagalpa and Jinotega , took over public buildings and occupied farms . |
16 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
17 | Smith denies party split over public ownership |
18 | JOHN Major was plunged into another U-turn row last night after he was accused of backtracking over public spending cuts . |
19 | The president 's disappointing administrative reform will pare off public spending worth only 0.5% of GDP . |
20 | Those who dare to venture off public rights of way find themselves harassed and evicted . |
21 | Selling off public sector land and buildings can be a highly lucrative activity ( in the short term ) . |
22 | Oh Cagney oh that 's how he started off public enemy |
23 | Second , Holyoak attacks the monumentality of The Galleries which , in his words ‘ is the latest in the big developers ’ move to privatise city centres — to eat up public space and reshape it as internalised , homogenised , security-patrolled private space' . |
24 | Journalists could whip up public indignation but cricket and football authorities were singularly unresponsive to press influence apart from The Times . |
25 | Young fans found a new ‘ hooligan ’ identity created for them by journalists with a vested interest in whipping up public indignation . |
26 | The sight in the crowded courtroom of Evalina Marmon weeping over her murdered child incensed them and the evidence of the other witnesses , sensationalised by the media , worked up public hysteria . |
27 | And chief Byatt insisted bravely at yesterday 's London press launch of , The Cost Of Quality that the document was only intended to open up public debate . |
28 | Nor is there any reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes hold up public programmes if they are allowed to be brought after the short time-limit in Order 53 ; or that claims based on public law rights will necessarily cause trouble if brought after that time limit has expired . |
29 | The degree to which such fear exists can be judged by the ease with which the gutter press froths up public agitation over stories concerning discharged former offenders . |
30 | Last night , on ’ Newsnight ’ , Mr. Brendan Bruce , the former director of communications for the Tories , said : ’ No-one sensible in the Tory Party actually believes the Labour Party would put up public spending by £37 billion ’ . |