Example sentences of "[adv prt] to private " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listening in to private conversations is bad enough . |
| 2 | The Government imposed a ceiling of 1.5 per cent in the public sector is showing little sign of filtering through to private companies , said the report . |
| 3 | The agreed position of the Government was that we would not move over to private health insurance but would seek to make the health service as effective as possible . |
| 4 | Even more alluringly , the entire process could be handed over to private enterprise . |
| 5 | The colonial administration 's paper , Mambo Leo , had , like its stablemates , been turned over to private hands . |
| 6 | The predicament of peasants on state lands which had not been handed over to private landowners was marginally easier , but did not differ fundamentally from that of the private serfs . |
| 7 | The Navy 's own dockyard at Devonport , Plymouth , was handed over to private management in 1987 , with 3,300 of the 11,500 jobs to go by 1990 ( the Guardian , June 11 1988 ) and , again , little preparation of land for replacement industries . |
| 8 | Much of the responsibility for dealing with it is likely to be handed over to private contractors , with the Energy Authority having a supervisory role . |
| 9 | The end product could be a jointly-owned network ( unless the Reagan administration decides , instead , to sell its satellites off to private enterprise ) . |
| 10 | Oh , a at nineteen forty eight they split up the electric supply and the three was nationalized and erm it , it just went out of the control of the local councils , it was government controlled then and there was a distinct possibility that the transport section would be sold off to private enterprise and the only private enterprise that was capable of taking over then was the Eastern Counties but erm I think the , the erm local council having had the transport under their wing for so many years , fought off that erm feeling and erm they kept with it and er , of course all the accountancy went to the Borough Treasurer and the certain members of clerks from the Borough Treasurers , which was at in those days , er seconded on to transport accounts . |
| 11 | To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm . |
| 12 | After that it was up to private enterprise ! |
| 13 | The revised constitutional package focused on ( i ) fiscal adjustment measures including , critically , a new simplified tax system to broaden the tax base in order to raise an extra US$10,000 million per annum ; ( ii ) the lifting of banking secrecy in cases of proven tax evasion ; ( iii ) new mechanisms for dealing with state debts to the central government ; ( iii ) the ending of government monopolies in such areas as oil and telecommunications , opening them up to private domestic and ( more controversially ) foreign capital investment . |
| 14 | Existing waste disposal operations will have to be put out to private or arms-length companies so the local authority 's policing role can not be mixed with its disposal role . |
| 15 | The thousands of redundancies , in the cause of ‘ economies ’ , owe most to government insistence on having 25 per cent of programmes farmed out to private enterprise with its higher regard for profit than for human dignity . |
| 16 | In order to economise , the officers of some parishes put their workhouses out to private contract ; this practice — an early example of privatisation — was known as ‘ farming the poor ’ . |
| 17 | Not only was it , in Horton , recreating the age of the large mental hospital , but also it was seeking exemption from the DHSS requirement that health authorities put their ancillary services out to private tender . |
| 18 | Despite this relatively small cost the Reagan Administration was encouraged to seek further savings and decided to put the whole operation out to private tender ( reported in the TES , 28 October , 1982 , p.12 ) . |
| 19 | One is contracting out to private sector firms the production of goods and services which the state provides free or at subsidized prices to consumers . |
| 20 | Similar government actions have occurred in Alberta and British Columbia where even public works projects are contracted out to private sector firms unencumbered with unionized government employees . |
| 21 | One can not expect the Government to accept European Community rules about the ’ economically advantageous ’ projects that should be accepted when any scheme goes out to private tender but one can expect consistency . |
| 22 | Contracting work out to private suppliers may reduce costs to a public agency which nevertheless controls the standard of service to the public through the mechanisms of competitive bidding . |
| 23 | Hundreds of workers have been sacked , the convener and deputy convener victimized , while millions of pounds went out to private contractors . |
| 24 | When let out to private contractors , corruption and harsh treatment of the paupers was too often added to failure . |
| 25 | Intercity routes into London Paddington are among seven sections of the rail network to be offered out to private tender . |
| 26 | The new trains were ordered long before the Government drew up its plans to put some routes out to private tender . |
| 27 | In late 1917 , proclaiming Labour 's new commitment to ‘ the democratic control of industry [ through ] the common ownership of the means of production ’ , Arthur Henderson pledged the Party to ‘ strenuously resist every proposal to hand back to private capitalists the great industries and services that have come under Government control during the war … we do not mean to loosen the popular grip upon them , but on the contrary to strengthen it . ’ |
| 28 | There were plans to ‘ sell back to private ownership the recently nationalised aerospace and shipbuilding concerns , and to ‘ sell shares in the National Freight Corporation to the general public ’ . |
| 29 | But their report , published on April 28th , gives many reasons why the bill 's ‘ novel and untested ’ route back to private railways may end in derailment . |
| 30 | Many of the vehicles saved in the 1940s and 50s , were being passed on to museums or back to private ownership , as interest was revived during the late 1960s . |