Example sentences of "the [adj] public " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives ' original goal in opposition was to stabilize the total public spending figure in real terms at its 1977 level and for that total to fall as a share of GDP as the economy grew . |
| 2 | As well as showing the average or individual costs of community care under the Home Support Project it would clearly also be useful to show whether the project was or was not cost-effective overall ; that is , whether the costs of running the service were greater or lower than the total public expenditure saved through sustaining at home people who without the project would have been in institutions . |
| 3 | Publicity is part of the total public relations effort of the organization . |
| 4 | For most of this period , transfers to the state enterprises amounted to more than the total public deficit ( Gimeno 1984 : 88–92 ) . |
| 5 | On her way back , she was walking along the narrow public path which led to her house . |
| 6 | First , it is evident that the broad public interest criteria which are identified in the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , and the existence of the ‘ gateways ’ in the Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 , potentially ( and in practice ) permit issues to be considered that either have little or nothing to do with economic efficiency , or are more properly the concern of other areas of policy . |
| 7 | The prevailing public view of homosexuality as obscenity is bound to encourage anti-homosexual groups and individuals to test Section 28 , and few local authorities would be keen to challenge the difference between ‘ intentional ’ and ‘ unintentional ’ . |
| 8 | While the Maastricht Treaty lies in tatters , and the ERM 's crumbling to pieces , the European Public Domain scene is stronger than ever . |
| 9 | Apart from paintings from the Antwerp , Vienna and Cologne collections loans have come mainly from the European public collections , from Stockholm to Berlin . |
| 10 | Some of the poorest public houses have been closed and some are used now for non-licensed purposes . |
| 11 | To illustrate this , I refer to the strong public reaction against nuclear warfare that followed the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima towards the end of the second world war . |
| 12 | McKeown and his colleagues blame the general hospitals for killing their patients more often than relieving them , at least until the 1875 public Health Act . |
| 13 | Immediate access without formality to the largest public collection of science literature in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | In the September issue of PFK , Mrs. Biggar asked if any readers knew where the largest public aquarium in Europe is . |
| 15 | As the largest public sector employer in Europe it can offer scope for experience in management and education , in research and in clinical nursing itself . |
| 16 | In the largest public protest seen for over a year , an estimated 10,000 demonstrators marched through central Abidjan on May 31 chanting demands for the resignation of President Felix Houphouët-Boigny . |
| 17 | Glasgow was for long suspicious of ‘ the electricity ’ , and St Enoch 's Station and the General Post Office remained the sole public buildings lit by the new method until the 1890s . |
| 18 | He reversed some of the laws on language and education which discriminated against Tamils , and took to visiting some of the Tamils ' Hindu temples , even attempting the odd public statement in Tamil . |
| 19 | This , the clearest public indication to date of Mr Mandela 's views on talks with the government , emerged from an Independent interview yesterday with Albertina Sisulu , who , together with anti-apartheid leaders , met Mr Mandela at his prison house for four hours on Tuesday . |
| 20 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 21 | The cost of housing construction , and particularly the cost of the associated public utilities , was usually higher in rural areas , although this did not deter private developers whose houses usually needed the same facilities . |
| 22 | The Spanish public sector , for example , has long been characterized by the politicization of public appointments ( see ch. 2 ) . |
| 23 | In the new government 's first full review , presented in the 1980 Public Expenditure White Paper ( Cmnd 7866 , 1980 ) , the stated intention was to reduce real term spending by 4 per cent in four years . |
| 24 | The 56-day public inquiry heard 122 witnesses . |
| 25 | The Committee recognised that the greatest public concern had arisen as a consequence of the ‘ presence and the visible and obvious presence of prostitutes in considerable numbers in the public streets of some parts of London and of a few provincial towns ’ . |
| 26 | In other words , these are the cases where there is the greatest public impact , so , while a small minority , these high-profile cases will tend to be used by the public as indicators of what is normally the outcome . |
| 27 | The older areas of irrigation were extended and intensified by the Imperial Canal ; begun under Charles V , its completion was the greatest public work of the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Certainly it is an issue of the greatest public importance . |
| 29 | It was a trial of the greatest public importance , involving alleged IRA terrorism . |
| 30 | Yet examination of the aggregate public spending figures on social security hardly justify charges of ‘ an attack on the welfare state ’ . |