Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [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 most staggering growth had been in public employment and in social security transfer payments , two forms of growth politicians find very hard to limit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |