Example sentences of "public [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this state of affairs , the electorate is presented with a clear choice between alternative programmes and parties for government in a way that enables the electorate to choose the government and the broad drift of public policy for the next 5 years . |
| 2 | In the days of glasnost and perestroika the KGB came under public scrutiny for the first time , much of it hostile . |
| 3 | Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7 was celebrated as a public holiday for the first time since the arrival of communist rule in the Russian Federation , the Ukraine , Byelorussia , Georgia and Moldavia , with the endorsement of the USSR government . |
| 4 | Planned public expenditure for the next financial year is up by 7 per cent . |
| 5 | 28–8–1866 Norman McLeod , an Elder , had ceased to attend public worship for the last year and two other Elders were sent to find out why , " when he assigned as reasons several charges against the Minister , that his preaching was neither law nor Gospel ; that he considered him aiming at himself personally in his preaching . " |
| 6 | In Moscow yesterday Mr Yeltsin — whose mother died at the weekend — stayed out of public view for the second day , letting his aides keep up the political pressure . |
| 7 | In his address to the assembled Reichstag at the Nuremberg Party Rally on 15 September 1935 , Hitler took up the ‘ Jewish Question , in a major public speech for the first time since becoming Reich Chancellor , recommending acceptance of the three laws placed before it — the ‘ Flag law ’ and the two notorious anti-Jewish ‘ Nuremberg Laws ’ ( the Reich Citizenship Law , preventing Jews from becoming citizens of the Reich , and the ‘ Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour ’ , banning marriage and sexual relations between Jews and ‘ aryans ’ ) . |