Example sentences of "[adj] member [prep] [art] public " in BNC.

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1 Coins may also be found and reported on a casual basis by interested members of the public or systematically searched out by treasure hunters with metal detectors .
2 But the main features of the system must be comprehensible to those Members of Parliament and councillors who are not specialists and to serious commentators and interested members of the public .
3 It is important that the branch broadcasts clearly visible messages which advertise interested members of the public of the existence of CPRW and the work it is doing .
4 planning applications and er er items relating to Poor Lane , er and also the traffic on Station Road later on , er I think it 's rather complicated to talk about all of these at at one go , because I know er different members of the public have come for different reasons and perhaps , for the moment , I 'll not ask for any comments about Mr Smith 's proposals on Poor Lane , er nor er comments about Station Road , er but I will ask you if you want to refer to planning applications , er we have three planning applications , one is to extend the car park behind the pub , one is for a change of plan to one of the houses on the development adjacent to us , er and the third one is er er the plans submitted by Grant Development at Thorney , erm , I suspect most comments will be about the last , er perhaps I should ask first if anybody wants to make any comments about proposals behind the reindeer in , or at Chapel cottage site , does anybody , er in the public want to mention those erm , well we will go on to the one at Thorney then , and you 're Mr Walker ?
5 Some members of the public bring these so routinely that their complaints are not taken seriously by rankers , although complaints from others are ( see Weitzer 1986 ) .
6 One neighbourhood policeman was known among colleagues ( and some members of the public ) for his proclivity for dispensing parking tickets .
7 The physical barriers that prevent some members of the public reaching a CAB are perhaps easier to tackle than the image barriers .
8 For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business .
9 He suggests that if outside investors are unaware of which corporations have managers who trade on inside information , some members of the public will refrain from investment altogether , while others will incur costs to avoid dealing with executives with non-public information .
10 Some would argue that the major deficiency in the green form scheme is that it is administered through solicitors and must , therefore , share the same unattractiveness to some members of the public .
11 Also the rates had a regressive effect on some members of the public : e.g. on elderly people who sometimes occupied large , highly rated properties but who could no longer afford to pay the rates demanded since their incomes were insufficient .
12 One was that some members of the public were unaware that they need not pay and gave in to the pressure of successive threatening letters .
13 But there always remains still one point of complaint by some members of the public , that is that the grass that 's cut does tend to blow about , but if the cutting is frequent , there 's less grass t to blow about at a given time .
14 HARDLY surprising that some members of the public are increasingly frustrated with our apparent unwillingness to make our product more available and complain through the various channels open to them .
15 Relatively few members of the public have been killed in Britain by industrial accidents in recent years .
16 In the case of neither plan was attention drawn to this fundamental change in the plans accompanying the text , or at public consultation displays , and few members of the public have therefore been aware of the prevailing washed-over status of Skelton , and consequence consequently of the intended change to it .
17 Brixton was the scene of the next outbreak of violent disorder , during the weekend 28–9 September 1985. 724 major crimes were reported , 43 members of the public and 10 police-officers were injured , and 230 arrests were made .
18 That is to take nothing away from Mitterrand 's remarkable three-hour TV performance last week when he took on — and beat — a TV interviewer , three editors , 12 members of the public and a leading anti-Maastricht politician .
19 Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course .
20 … This means in practice that one out of every twenty samples will fail to comply with the standard and the Authority will be at risk from somebody , some member of the public , prosecuting . ’
21 There can be no doubt that the people themselves in Zambia felt they had something to say : some 1,500 contributions were received , more than 1,100 from individual members of the public , the remainder submitted by local , district and provincial seminars , parent-teacher associations , teacher associations , church organisations and other bodies , including schools themselves .
22 Food parcels flow in from many other sources , such as schools and individual members of the public .
23 Price fixing ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) and illegal monopoly pricing ( Klass 1975 ) both mean that customers pay more than they would under competitive conditions ; bribing corrupt officials ( Braithwaite 1979b ; Jacoby , Nehemlis , and Ells 1977 ) may mean reducing competitors ' profit margins or even driving them into bankruptcy ; illegal mergers and take-overs and other shady financial manoeuvres may result in many shareholders being defrauded ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; misleading advertising as well as trimming production costs may result in customers buying goods whose quality fails totally to match manufacturers ' glossy claims , thus leaving a swindled consumer population ( Moffit 1976 ) ; corporate tax evasion and avoidance may mean more average taxes paid by individual members of the public ( Vanick 1977 ) .
24 The functions , including in particular those to be carried out for the direct benefit of individual members of the public , such as social services , may require the borrowing of money and do require the recruiting and employment of many men and women to work for the council .
25 To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public .
26 They will increase the rights of individual members of the public , individual trade union members , individual employees and the community at large .
27 The courts have held that the public is legitimately interested , not merely in the conduct of public officials and institutions , but of private companies whose activities affect individual members of the public .
28 She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men .
29 Gradually from that time , there was greater chance for ordinary members of the public to see for themselves , and learn to read themselves , the various written words .
30 There is an immense feeling of anger among ordinary members of the public at the extent to which they are inconvenienced , and they are crying out for something to be done .
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