Example sentences of "in private " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critic is also likely to spot the gaps in a group show , when the best works are not being shown , say perhaps because they are in private collections . |
| 2 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 3 | An actor can wear his cap as an academic in private conversation as well as the next person , but once on stage the actor responds to the requirements of a scene being played , and works through from moment to moment . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the reading I did for the lectures I was called to give as a ‘ drugs expert ’ generated queries about such ambiguous areas as victimless crimes and interference in private acts , and altogether raised more questions than were solved . |
| 5 | Perhaps he thought I was the impersonator , dressed as a man , hoping to win his confidence and thus learn the kind of mannerisms and opinions he might reveal only in private . |
| 6 | Statistics have been published showing numbers of residents supported by local authorities in England in their own homes , and in private and voluntary establishments , for the year ending 31 March 1990 . |
| 7 | As for the rhyme , these are poems that characteristically celebrate the decorous in private and public life , and the verse must be in keeping ; rhyme , when it occurs , is one of several concessions to decorum . |
| 8 | Motor Racing : McLaren try for peace in private war |
| 9 | The author is an architect in private practice IN MODERN demonologies , property developers rank high . |
| 10 | Mr Gorbachev may refrain from saying it publicly on Saturday but he can be expected to press Mr Honecker all the more urgently in private . |
| 11 | ‘ There is no doubt that in private ownership , services will take second place to the search for profit , and there will be horrendous operating problems , ’ he said . |
| 12 | For some years leading Labour politicians have offered two separate justifications for the block vote — one in public , the other in private . |
| 13 | Time and again the Conservative politicians we approached would talk in private frankly and openly about the problems they foresaw for their party . |
| 14 | Dr Marvin Goldberg , chief executive , expects continued growth in private health care . |
| 15 | In private , however , all are making judgements about the relative merits of each of the authorities . |
| 16 | Even its critics concede that the Saatchi Collection has had a profound effect on the visual culture of this country , but it has always occupied an uneasy position — it has the status of a national institution , yet it is in private ownership . |
| 17 | May not Lenin have reacted in private in a way not so dissimilar from Stalin 's overt and more violent reaction to political opposition in Georgia in the same year ? |
| 18 | In private Michael still had to keep his end up against attacks , that to be religious was to be a fool , though less frequently now because Frank travelled abroad and was away much of the time . |
| 19 | If private enterprise in a capitalist society is not trying to do that , there is no point in private enterprise — nor , for that matter , in a capitalist society . |
| 20 | The sexual pervert lives his fantasies in private and is therefore harmless ; whereas the social personages play out their roles in public . |
| 21 | By 1985 approximately half of the work-force was in the state scheme and half in private schemes . |
| 22 | The government would not intervene in private sector wage bargaining but intended that its own example in the public sector plus strict control of the money supply would encourage responsible wage bargaining . |
| 23 | What we do know is that Lloyd George , despite his public stance of support for the National Government , thought , in private , that it had been a mistake for the Liberals to join it . |
| 24 | The effort which the Conservative party put into developing a positive alternative to the new liberal collectivism was , apparently , all a gigantic fraud , a disguise for the individualist principles which Conservatives held in private . |
| 25 | David Coleman has unwittingly given his name to this tradition of sporting gaffe published mercilessly in Private Eye , of which Murray Walker 's ‘ this car is absolutely unique , except for the one behind , which is identical ’ must stand for the many . |
| 26 | Games were not even made compulsory in state schools until 1944 despite the importance of athleticism in private education . |
| 27 | Sport was the true province of private persons in private clubs and tampering with this smacked of an authoritarianism foreign to all that Britons — Labour , Liberal , and Tory — held most dear . |
| 28 | She had also known that Charles would have to see his mother just as regularly after they were married as before : there were matters of state they had to discuss , and discuss in private . |
| 29 | She might have done it in private — she is fun and without question , a little flirtatious — — but Diana had understood from the start that her public image had to be beyond reproach , and it always had been . |
| 30 | Actually , I did n't go to the hairdresser once during the five months I was in Private Lives and my hair became healthier from not being subjected to heated rollers or setting lotion . |