Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [prep] public " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , Memet had been to public school , so that had probably finished him off … |
| 2 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 3 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 4 | The most staggering growth had been in public employment and in social security transfer payments , two forms of growth politicians find very hard to limit . |
| 5 | The first observation I was able to make when the books were gathered together was that , although almost all the press coverage had been about public libraries , since they were the focus of political controversy , only c . |
| 6 | Of the twenty non-royal knights who processed into the chapel , all except for the two former Labour prime ministers had been at public schools . |