Example sentences of "about the public " in BNC.

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1 It was one thing to boast afterwards of pre-breakfast hiking , quite another to be actually seen leading this freak of nature , this abortion , about the public streets .
2 Although Bert Cooke , shortly after his conversion , became an active supporter of Paisley 's evangelistic work , he was less than enthusiastic about the public image of the Church : ‘ When I started thinking about full-time service , I did n't want to be a Free Presbyterian .
3 If you trod carefully last week , however , it was possible to avoid the appalling tedium of the poll of polls , or the studio debates about the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement .
4 More sensational was the information produced inadvertently about the Public Order Manual of Tactical Options and Related Matters , a document prepared by the Association of Chief Police Officers ( ACPO ) .
5 Laurie Mains was busily talking with John Dowling , a New Zealand Rugby Football Union councillor from Dunedin , about the public relations side of his new position as All Black coach when , all of a sudden , a smile moved over Mains ' face .
6 Eventually , after further compromises to meet British objections about the public nature of the ministerial meetings , the foreign ministers of the Brussels states issued a communiqué on 29 January 1949 in favour of a Council of Europe ‘ consisting of a ministerial committee meeting in private and a consultative body meeting in public ’ .
7 Now we have n't , erm talking about er cars as to other forms of transport and on the whole there 's been more complaints about the public transport than they have about cars , but you surely do n't think or maybe you do , I mean what 's bad about cars ? ,
8 In this section the object is to examine in some detail the important preliminary issue of why the debate should be one about the public interest in the first place , and why company law should not be seen instead as being solely concerned with the rights of the corporators , that is , the shareholders .
9 Perhaps ’ corrupt ’ is too strong , because we do not know who has actually taken out key words or added sections at the last minute because they are worried about the public impact of certain phrases .
10 My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was right about the public relations campaigns being run by the counties and districts .
11 He expressed anxiety about the public accountability of the funding council , and in particular who was to look after the strategic planning .
12 Concern about the public understanding of science often focuses on those occasions when scientists and the public are seen to come into conflict ; where , for example , scientific research is perceived as hazardous .
13 Further , the study will also look at the use of performance indicators in the private sector of the economy in order to establish whether there is anything unique about the public sector or whether problems of evaluating performance are common to particular kinds of services .
14 The second point is about the public consultation exercise .
15 happens , what about the public schools around ?
16 But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up .
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