Example sentences of "much public [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After much public discussion and debate , the principles of the Warnock report were enshrined in an Act of Parliament ( Education Act 1981 ) , its main provisions being implemented on 1 April 1983 . |
| 2 | There was much public sympathy for the miners in general , however rebarbative the personality and creed of Arthur Scargill himself . |
| 3 | Despite the initial support of the boycott by international operatic stars — most of whom were at the time on contract to work with him — Barneboim 's case did not excite much public sympathy in France . |
| 4 | We had not been prepared to give way to health unions with much public support . |
| 5 | However , parliamentary debate on the bill was postponed until the autumn session since there was much public criticism of PS politicians many of whom were expected to be among the several thousand likely to benefit from the amnesty . |
| 6 | In some cases , the handicap may be so severe that the fullest possible efforts may not be taken to prolong the life of the afflicted child , and this has given rise to much public concern about medical ethics . |
| 7 | Surveys of long-stay hospitals exposed such anomalies in the 1960s and 1970s , creating much public concern . |
| 8 | Today there is much public concern about the amount of incest that occurs and is now coming to light . |
| 9 | The possibility that transferring to human insulin adversely affects the incidence and presentation of hypoglycaemia has been extensively aired in the lay press and has given rise to much public concern . |
| 10 | Although at present nuclear power generation contributes only 0.1 per cent of the total global radiation dose commitment , much public concern has been expressed on the potential local and regional effects of accidental releases of radioactive material . |
| 11 | It is for this reason , more than any other , that the application has caused so much public concern , since what is proposed raises quite fundamental questions about the way in which this special coastal landscape could be protected or despoiled in the longer term . |
| 12 | The Prince Regent is reported as a subscriber on 2 May 1811 , having expressed the view that the College ‘ held forth the expectation of much public benefit ’ . |
| 13 | But it has taken outside analysts to underline just how much public money was involved . |
| 14 | If we could state positively , and with hope of agreement , what the point of education is , then we could go on to debate how it should be provided , how much public money should be spent on provision , and how much variety should be permitted , within the general legal framework . |
| 15 | Too much public money is being wasted as lawyers explain to jurors the precise meaning of the term ‘ a share ’ . |
| 16 | Will he tell us exactly how much public money the Scottish Development Agency has invested in the Stagecoach operation and whether the same level of investment will be available to every bid , including management-employee bids , that is made to buy one of the subsidiaries ? |
| 17 | How much public money has Stagecoach received through the Scottish Development Agency ? |
| 18 | Unfortunately , others have been disasters and much public money has gone into them . |
| 19 | Over thirty times as much public money was spent globally on hormonal and surgical contraception in 1978 than was earmarked for the less ‘ reliable ’ ( but infinitely safer ) barrier methods , such as condoms and diaphragms . |
| 20 | Is it not true — as my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) pointed out — that as much public money goes to one CTC , to which parents who have not gone through the normal process will have access , as to all the other schools in the area , and that it goes there at the same rate ? |
| 21 | It 's not known how much public money 's been spent on the proposed mine , but British Coal told us it keeps its plans under constant review . |
| 22 | It remains to be seen just how much public money has had to be promised for the Heathrow to central London fast rail link to break the deadlock between airports operator BAA and British Rail . |
| 23 | After much public correspondence , and a re-check of the data by the study 's authors , the original ‘ definitive ’ interpretation of the results were withdrawn , again publicly , in a letter to the Lancet medical journal . |
| 24 | The proposal to sell Leyland Vehicles including Land Rover to General Motors , manufacturer of Bedford trucks , caused as much disquiet as the mooted sale of Austin Rover to Ford and was eventually thwarted after much public argument , when General Motors withdrew from the deal . |
| 25 | The emotion roused by the murder of a policeman in late 1985 during racial disturbances at Broadwater Farm , a dismal sixties high-rise housing estate in Tottenham , north London , confirmed much public endorsement of the role of the police in a public-order capacity . |
| 26 | The Imperial Conference received much public notice , but the other books did not . |
| 27 | The fines created so much public interest that , on the following Sunday , the Ravenhill Church ‘ was packed half an hour before the service began and throughout the proceedings men climbed onto the windows to listen and people thronged the open doors and queued out in the street at the back and side of the church ’ . |
| 28 | This report , of the Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the United Kingdom , concerns itself with the diagnosis of brain death , but at the outset acknowledges that ‘ the dilemma of when to switch off the ventilator has been the subject of much public interest . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Much public attention has been focused on foreign puchases of real estate , however , foreign ownership of banking and manufacturing is much more important ’ , the report argues . |
| 30 | In recent years there have been , regrettably , a number of major accidents involving large passenger transport aircraft which have attracted much public attention . |