Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to the private [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The operating side of BR will continue to provide passenger services until they are franchised out to the private sector .
2 Ratepayer democracy … implied less local government , with fewer services to provide since some of them could be handed over to the private sector , to the supposed benefit of consumers and ratepayers alike .
3 I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it .
4 Whilst the Conservative government was delighted to have sold back to the private sector one of its most difficult privatisation candidates , the impact of recent changes in the car industry have yet to be fully assessed .
5 The emphasis could well be changed once again , and may be switched back to the private sector , but in a new and different form — especially given the fact that an Urban Development Corporation was designated in Sheffield in March 1988 .
6 Management of part of the programme , the European Expertise Service , which gives policy advice to senior decision-makers in governments of the ex-Soviet Union , has been contracted out to the private sector .
7 joint local authority/private sector schemes — ownership and ultimate responsibility would lie within the public sector but the day-to-day running of the service would be contracted out to the private sector through competitive tendering .
8 of which is contracted out to the private sector .
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