Example sentences of "in private [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some will want to monopolise each week with their own problems and again this can abuse the group : a word in private may be needed , or careful leadership in the group . |
| 2 | But we knew that nothing we said to each other in private would be laughed at in public . |
| 3 | It enacts , subject to limitation , that a homosexual act in private shall not be an offence , but it goes no further than that … |
| 4 | The Report , as well as recommending that homosexual relations between adults in private should no longer be an offence , and that the age of consent should be 21 , also sought to increase substantially the maximum penalties in respect of certain offences . |
| 5 | Sir — In 1957 , the Wolfenden Committee recommended , after three years study of evidence , that homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence . |
| 6 | When the Commission 's proposals were incorporated into the Criminal Law Act 1977 , the Board took pains to convince the Home Office that the viewing of films in private could as easily become a social activity , with some persons at greater risk in a private flat than in a public cinema . |
| 7 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |