Example sentences of "[adj] member [prep] [art] public " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coins may also be found and reported on a casual basis by interested members of the public or systematically searched out by treasure hunters with metal detectors . |
| 2 | But the main features of the system must be comprehensible to those Members of Parliament and councillors who are not specialists and to serious commentators and interested members of the public . |
| 3 | It is important that the branch broadcasts clearly visible messages which advertise interested members of the public of the existence of CPRW and the work it is doing . |
| 4 | planning applications and er er items relating to Poor Lane , er and also the traffic on Station Road later on , er I think it 's rather complicated to talk about all of these at at one go , because I know er different members of the public have come for different reasons and perhaps , for the moment , I 'll not ask for any comments about Mr Smith 's proposals on Poor Lane , er nor er comments about Station Road , er but I will ask you if you want to refer to planning applications , er we have three planning applications , one is to extend the car park behind the pub , one is for a change of plan to one of the houses on the development adjacent to us , er and the third one is er er the plans submitted by Grant Development at Thorney , erm , I suspect most comments will be about the last , er perhaps I should ask first if anybody wants to make any comments about proposals behind the reindeer in , or at Chapel cottage site , does anybody , er in the public want to mention those erm , well we will go on to the one at Thorney then , and you 're Mr Walker ? |
| 5 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 6 | There can be no doubt that the people themselves in Zambia felt they had something to say : some 1,500 contributions were received , more than 1,100 from individual members of the public , the remainder submitted by local , district and provincial seminars , parent-teacher associations , teacher associations , church organisations and other bodies , including schools themselves . |
| 7 | Food parcels flow in from many other sources , such as schools and individual members of the public . |
| 8 | Price fixing ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) and illegal monopoly pricing ( Klass 1975 ) both mean that customers pay more than they would under competitive conditions ; bribing corrupt officials ( Braithwaite 1979b ; Jacoby , Nehemlis , and Ells 1977 ) may mean reducing competitors ' profit margins or even driving them into bankruptcy ; illegal mergers and take-overs and other shady financial manoeuvres may result in many shareholders being defrauded ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; misleading advertising as well as trimming production costs may result in customers buying goods whose quality fails totally to match manufacturers ' glossy claims , thus leaving a swindled consumer population ( Moffit 1976 ) ; corporate tax evasion and avoidance may mean more average taxes paid by individual members of the public ( Vanick 1977 ) . |
| 9 | The functions , including in particular those to be carried out for the direct benefit of individual members of the public , such as social services , may require the borrowing of money and do require the recruiting and employment of many men and women to work for the council . |
| 10 | To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public . |
| 11 | They will increase the rights of individual members of the public , individual trade union members , individual employees and the community at large . |
| 12 | The courts have held that the public is legitimately interested , not merely in the conduct of public officials and institutions , but of private companies whose activities affect individual members of the public . |
| 13 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 14 | Gradually from that time , there was greater chance for ordinary members of the public to see for themselves , and learn to read themselves , the various written words . |
| 15 | There is an immense feeling of anger among ordinary members of the public at the extent to which they are inconvenienced , and they are crying out for something to be done . |
| 16 | One of the tasks that the Employment Research Centre is undertaking is to publicise these findings in language accessible to ordinary members of the public . |
| 17 | Does the Oxford Forestry Institute have a programme of education for the ordinary members of the public to enable them to have this vision of their assets . |
| 18 | ‘ Swat-the-fly ’ campaigns were mounted with a view to its mass extermination and financial rewards were offered to assiduous members of the public with the highest kill rates . |
| 19 | In Northern Ireland , where wider cultural values about gender and sex roles are reinforced by common practice , policewomen can be humiliated and face hostility and resentment from some male members of the public who expect to deal with policemen , and normally do . |
| 20 | For example , when out on a call one policewoman at Easton was asked by a male member of the public where the constables were . |
| 21 | ‘ There are tons of leaflets for offenders , but nothing for the witness or the ordinary member of the public , ’ says Ms Reeves . |
| 22 | However , the ordinary member of the public can not go around arresting cyclists and homeless persons and so on under section 25 . |
| 23 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |
| 24 | Following a visit to Ingrow on August 11th this year and reading of reduced membership and escalating costs at the Bahamas Locomotive Society , I wrote the following day , as an ordinary member of the public , to their Secretary with the ‘ bare bones ’ of a suggestion for raising funds . |
| 25 | This was to have been changed by clause 54(4) under which the benefit received was to be assessed at the arm 's length price which an ordinary member of the public would have paid for that service . |
| 26 | Buying privately means if you buy from an ordinary member of the public not a shop . |
| 27 | Where you 're not buying from a trader , you 're buying from an ordinary member of the public . |
| 28 | It is on this point , that the ordinary member of the public and , it is suspected , the average police officer finds it difficult to equate his own perception of the offence of taking without consent with the strictures placed upon the courts by legislation . ’ |
| 29 | At the upper end of the scale came those shops which bewildered members of the public — those who could afford it all — with an astonishing range of merchandise : Dutch ratteens , duffles , frizes , beaver coatings , kerseymeres , forrest cloths , German serges , Wilton stuffs , sagathies , namkeens , Silasia cambricks , Manchester velvets , grograms , double allapeens , silk camblets , barragons , Brussels camblets , princes stuffs , worsted damasks , silk knitpieces , gattias , shagg velvets , serge desoys and shalloons . |
| 30 | Meciar had been a leading member of the Public Against violence movement ( PAV or VPN ) at the time of the 1989 revolution , was subsequently Slovak Interior Minister and then held office as Slovak Prime Minister from June 1990 to April 1991 [ see pp. 37543 ; 38161 ] . |