I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a personal/private diary
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She later agreed to the publication of parts of her personal diary.
a personal/private fortune
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She is one of the richest women in Britain, with an estimated personal fortune of £90 million.
a personal/private matter
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We never spoke about personal matters.
a personal/private nightmare (= a very bad situation that affects only one person )
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His personal nightmare began when he was arrested for murder.
a private beach (= owned by someone, so you need permission to use it )
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The hotel has its own private beach.
a private citizen (= an ordinary citizen without a public position )
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Laws exist to protect private citizens.
a private client (= a person rather than a business )
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There are more than 200 stockbroking firms eager to take on private clients.
a private clinic (= not paid for by the government )
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Fees at private clinics are usually very high.
a private collection (= belonging to a person rather than a museum, gallery etc )
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Many of the paintings are now in private collections.
a private company (= not owned by the government )
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There are many tiny private companies.
a private gallery (= owned by a private person )
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The portrait was to be sold to a private gallery in the United States.
a private house (= one owned by someone )
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It was a residential neighborhood of private houses.
a private individual (= a person, not a company or business )
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Few shares in the company are owned by private individuals.
a private lesson (= a lesson specially for one person rather than for a class )
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He gave private lessons in mathematics at the weekends.
a private plane
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He flew to Vegas in his private plane.
a private prosecution
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The victim's widow is considering a private prosecution.
a private school ( also a public school British English ) (= a school where students pay to study )
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He was educated at a private school.
a private/closed meeting (= that only a few people are allowed to go to )
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The senator attended a private meeting with the president.
a private/confidential chat
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Have a confidential chat with the school nurse.
a private/personal pension (= one that you arrange with a private pension company )
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The percentage of the workforce with a private pension has declined.
a quiet/private talk
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She asked if she could have a private talk.
an inside/a private joke (= that only a few people who are involved in something will understand )
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After I’d worked there a while, I started to understand some of the inside jokes.
personal/private mail (= for one person to read and nobody else )
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He accused her of reading his private mail.
private detective
private donations (= given by individual people )
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Other funds are coming from private donations.
private education (= that people have to pay for )
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I don't agree with the principle of private education.
private education
private enterprise
private eye
private income
private investigator
private investment (= investment by private individuals )
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Public expenditure in declining areas will attract future private investment.
private jet
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He owns a private jet .
private law
private limited company
private medicine
private member's bill
private member
private operator
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a private operator running regular passenger services
private parts
private patient
private practice
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Richard set up in private practice.
private property
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The land on the other side of the gate is private property.
private school
private secretary
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a parliamentary private secretary
private sector
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pay increases in the private sector
private soldier
private transport (= a vehicle that you own and drive )
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77 percent of respondents in the survey had regular access to private transport.
private vendetta
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The two sides have been engaged in a bitter private vendetta .
private view
public/private/personal morality
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the decline in standards of personal morality
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The authorities are protectors of public morality.
public/private/state ownership
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The company was returned to private ownership in mid-1987.
sb’s home/private address
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What’s your home address?
sb’s private affairs (= things that are personal and not for other people to know about )
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He never discussed his private affairs in public.
the private sector (= businesses that the government does not control )
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Generally speaking, employees in the private sector are well rewarded.
the private sphere
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After the war, women refused to return quietly to the private sphere.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bathroom
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All nine bedrooms have private bathrooms .
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All the apartments and studios have private bathroom and kitchen facilities and a balcony.
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All bedrooms have a private bathroom and balcony.
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The bedrooms are comfortable and all have private bathroom , radio and telephone.
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All the apartments have a separate bedroom, a private bathroom , cooking facilities, lounge and a terrace.
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The apartments are comfortable and spacious with kitchenette, private bathroom and balcony and sleep 2, 3 or 4.
bill
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No mention of private Bill procedure would be complete without mentioning the Dartford warbler.
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It is always endangered and turns up whenever we discuss a private Bill .
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They should not have to rely upon the private Bill procedure, because the issue is too important.
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It is high time that the private Bill procedure was reformed.
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Many points made during the passage of the previous, private Bill require to be considered.
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I have been unable to find anyone who wishes to praise the private Bill procedure; it is an anachronism.
business
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She's hoping that private businesses will contribute to the upkeep.
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By law, the airwaves belong to the public, not to private business owners.
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The Chairman of Ways and Means has named opposed private business for consideration at seven o'clock.
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There was no clear demarcation between work and play or public and private business .
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Clearly we have intruded upon some private business .
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Another 10 percent grabbed up jobs in private business as salaried lawyers, or drifted into management.
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Legislation was passed on private business transactions and shareholding companies, and also amending the law on military service.
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He was also reportedly considering several offers from private businesses .
car
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A transport policy which advocates private cars is not a policy which protects the environment.
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There was a number-27I-in the rear side window; a private car service.
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People stopped private cars and put the dead and injured in their boots.
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Given that pollution levels relate to fuel consumption, private cars and taxis are also the greatest polluters.
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Once the private car and Tokimo were put solely at the disposition of Amy, Amelia, and Muriel.
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The hotel has its own large private car park.
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Would have made matchsticks of the private car .
citizen
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That's something that ought to be taken care of by private citizens .
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Liem had previously visited Pyongyang in 1977 as a private citizen .
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Unfortunately, the social class of the private citizens could not be determined.
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Shootings and other racially motivated violence perpetrated by private citizens continued to the end of the Carter years.
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The publication of a book by a private citizen led to the breaking-off of diplomatic relations.
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Now the obstacles seem even greater for Dole, the private citizen .
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Indeed, it is often suggested that a major problem with the procedure is its lack of accessibility to the private citizen .
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Laney said reports from Pyongyang indicate that private citizens are now engaged in black-market trading of a wide variety of goods.
collection
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Seventy-nine works are included, some rarely seen outside private collections .
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It was sort of a personal thing, a private collection .
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It entered a private collection but was ordered to be returned to the Nationalgalerie by the Soviet military administration in 1949.
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Many of the works are from private collections and have not previously been exhibited.
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The private collection will be given to the Ashmolean when the exhibition closes in August.
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Works by René Magritte are consequently to be seen in museums and private collections all round the world.
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We have one of the most extensive and comprehensive private collections of cook-books in the North; and her library keeps growing.
company
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The source of Mr Mukhametshin's wealth is a private company called, unsurprisingly, Anis.
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In a private company , the market value of the stock is determined by an outside valuation performed yearly.
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By a government licence under the Act, Mercury Communications, a private company , was authorized to establish a communications system.
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Then they brought in a private company to improve their gift shops, and gift sales increased by 50 percent.
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Of this, £70,000 came from private companies .
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The new commission would distribute power to the municipalities and it would also regulate the private companies .
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For example it might be his private company .
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With private companies , Datastream has estimated the value of the shareholdings in line with prevailing stock market values.
conversation
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May I ask the House not to indulge in private conversations .
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They moved away to have a more private conversation , from which I gathered problems existed.
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The telephone was just as it should be, with no bugging device to turn his private conversations into public knowledge.
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And there were endless meetings and private conversations and arcane machinations, many never recorded.
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Clinton went on to quote it again during the State of the Union and in other public remarks or private conversations .
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The hubbub was so intense that it would be impossible to hold any private conversation .
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I have had several private conversations with Steve about this.
detective
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Edward is a private detective hired by an antiques dealer who asked Edward to list all of the valuables in the house.
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Michael is a private detective and an aspiring writer.
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Later, an appointment was arranged for a private detective to call at Montpelier Walk.
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He had never been inside a police station, had never met a private detective , had never spoken to a criminal.
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Well, engage a private detective .
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The police made a few routine inquiries, came up with nothing, and then suggested that she hire a private detective .
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But her lovelorn millionaire husband, Bill, had spent more than Pounds 50,000 on private detectives to track her down.
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The private detective who, not so incidentally, taught Patrick everything he knows.
education
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Private medicine turned out to be one of these issues, and private education another.
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They said they hope the publicity will lead to scholarship money for a private education for Miranda.
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These schools now provided a free alternative to expensive private education - so that the number of middle-class children in them rose.
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In due course I shall return to my private education on the London trading floor.
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At present rates, an average private education will cost you about £50,000 by the end.
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A private education hardly comes cheap: students have to pay up to $ 15,000.
enterprise
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The development was originally envisaged as a private enterprise initiative.
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You hear the same sort of thing from people who worked with Bush in private enterprise .
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What models in addition to private enterprise are there for Community Economic Development? 7.
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After graduation, Daley had his last experience with private enterprise .
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Even more alluringly, the entire process could be handed over to private enterprise .
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Its faith in private enterprise was nearly as absolute as its earlier faith that settlement would make the climate wetter.
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The determination to use private enterprises as key actors was later complemented by stronger regulation.
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In a slip of time, the mantle of achievement passed from private enterprise to public works.
facility
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All four Karena hotels offer traditional rooms with private facilities , television, telephone, radio and a hospitality tray.
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Single room with private facilities £3.50.
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These include flights, hotel with private facilities , breakfast, taxes and entrance to the fair.
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All rooms will have private facilities .
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All the rooms at the Yahsi Beach are of a good size and have private facilities and balconies.
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The apartments sleep 2-4 and have private facilities , kitchenette and balcony.
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All bedrooms are of a high standard offering private facilities , satellite colour television, in-house movies and hospitality tray.
firm
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Both types of superior have measures of the organization's overall performance - profits in private firms , popularity in governments.
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As private firms , his companies report only to Companies House and Mr Branson himself.
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And here I am trying to start up a private firm with one other black lawyer.
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They're protesting at the government's proposals to allow private firms to tender for prison work.
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It shows that in most cases, private firms deliver services more economically than public organizations.
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Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government.
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Even in day care, private firms try to restrict the competition.
health
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Bupa has about 60 percent of the private health insurance market.
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Objective: a totally private health market.
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We will abolish tax relief for private health insurance, whilst protecting the rights of existing policy-holders.
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That includes fraud against private health plans and against government programs such as Medicare.
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Because neither life insurance nor private health plans normally cover you against the financial consequences of a seriously disabling accident.
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The system serves people with severe and persistent mental illnesses who lack private health insurance.
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Other fixes are more complex and include changing how Medicare pays doctors and hospitals, monitors spending and subsidizes private health insurers.
home
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Serious allegations have been made about the running of some private homes .
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Home care is also provided by private home health agencies, hospitals and public health departments.
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A study by Harriet and Sarah Harman, for example, documents appalling and degrading treatment of elderly people in private homes .
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They had private homes or apartments, country estates, special restaurants and shops.
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It is a white cottage-style residence, built as a private home in 1820.
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A sophisticated technology brought running water into private homes , public bathhouses and imperial palaces.
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There are 82 council houses and 120 private homes .
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As you would expect from a former private home , the bedrooms vary both in size and decor.
hospital
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Gilfoyle, 31-year-old auxiliary nurse at a private hospital , has pleaded not guilty to murdering his eight-month pregnant wife, Paula.
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This is a private hospital , not a state institution, and your sister committed you with-out any stipulations as to time.
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And four-fifths of all treatment in private hospitals is paid for by insurance.
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If she undergoes surgery, it will take place in a private hospital and will be paid for by Zapatista supporters.
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The laboratories carried out all work for general practitioners, National Health Service, and private hospitals in the area.
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There were at least two private hospitals closer, but they did not welcome blacks in their emergency room.
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Construction of private hospitals was boosted by financial incentives during the period of economic growth in the 1970s.
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The average costs of treating patients at private hospitals are less than those in public hospitals.
house
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About a third to a half the usable space in any private house is taken up by special rooms devoted to sleeping.
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Co., and visit owners of private houses , castles and gardens.
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Runs a treatment centre in a large private house near the south coast in Kent.
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The approach came after a reception in a large private house in Belgravia.
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The old village school, which closed in 1968, is now a private house and schoolchildren go by bus to Howden.
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He remembers when schools were schools were closed for fear of catastrophic bombing raids in wartime Edinburgh and classes were spread among private houses .
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They were painted on the walls of many private houses whether the occupants wanted them there or not.
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Within a 22-mile radius there are several National Trust properties including: Castle Drogo, a splendid private house .
individual
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Clive's estimate was that the Company and various private individuals made £3m. out of the change of rulers.
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There were a disturbing number of private individuals who called in to say they hoped he would not be a candidate.
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They were private individuals or partnerships, paid by the state to provide a universal service free at the point of use.
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They sell to private individuals , families and riding stables, he said.
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It was too expensive for most private individuals there to send telegrams; the network was used almost exclusively by the authorities.
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But at the same time, bank lending to private individuals , and credit card use, has increased.
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The accused may be prosecuted under Criminal Law whereas a private individual may be sued under Civil Law.
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Prosecutions brought by determined private individuals may present greater problems.
industry
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Observers suggested that the government's involvement followed a lack of interest from private industry .
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What they are eventually going to do is fire these people and have private industry hire them at lower pay.
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Most of the firms in private industry to which monopolies and mergers legislation is relevant are in fact oligopolists.
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Shares in the company had rallied after the government pledged to sell it to private industry before the end of October.
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Managers in public industries are often paid quite differently from those in private industry.
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Being a private industry employment interviewer is being a salesperson.
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It was generally believed that this would increase their efficiency in line with private industry .
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Greater participation by private industry in prevention and treatment programs.
investigator
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The Twiggs hired a private investigator to find their real daughter.
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Her family hired private investigators to find their daughter.
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Others use private investigators when employees have been threatened or workers have complained about on-the-job harassment.
investment
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Although there are occasional highly publicised instances of expropriation ... foreign private investment is growing rapidly.
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Meanwhile, private investment will remain strong, propelled by a 14 % increase in corporate profits in 1995.
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We shall pursue the privatisation programme, and encourage private investment , both domestic and foreign.
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The key to meeting this challenge was to stimulate private investment in the city.
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The success of such strategies is therefore usually expressed in terms of the ratio between public and private investment .
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An attempt to observe whether or not public investment leverages private investment has therefore been inconclusive.
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They suggested a public investment programme which could be planned ahead to counteract the fall in private investment during a slump.
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But long-term private investment in the production of high-quality tradable goods and services is essential for long-term success.
investor
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At the private investor level, the use of offshore centres is almost limitless.
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In addition to the inherited Banrural loans still to be repaid, new debt was encouraged by the state and private investors .
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Even private investors of modest means can use offshore centres for tax referral.
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The rest goes to private investors .
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All this will effect the private investor in two ways.
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By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors .
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But private investors reacted quickly by buying equities in the small hours of yesterday morning.
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Furthermore, private investors can not trade shares on terms even approaching those available to fund managers.
jet
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He is also pledging his private jet and everything else his family owns.
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You needed the private jets in Washington.
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How can a private jet be cheaper than a train?
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McCain has made four campaign trips in Paxson's private jet in the past few months.
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Immediately after the gig Jon Bon Jovi flew back to London on the private jet he arrived in just seven hours earlier.
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And happiness is ... a romantic tycoon with his own private jet .
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He flies in a private jet from concert to concert.
land
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Other companies in sectors such as oil and communications must also have way-leaves for work they want to carry out on private land .
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Even Aristotle complained that communal property always looked worse than private lands .
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Hunt stewards are trying to force the saboteurs off private land on to a public footbath.
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The proposed forest-saving initiative is likely to include the following provisions: Ban clear-cutting on private land .
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None of this applies to private land , because anyone is free to seek permission from any landowner.
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There is no large-scale effort to stamp out the fires because, in most cases, they are burning on private land .
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Then again, the pillbox was on private land so maybe that hadn't been a problem.
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I do agree with Mr. Findlay that the public should be prepared to pay for access to private land .
law
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The essence of a private law employment relationship is a mutual obligation to engage in an economic exchange of labour in return for remuneration.
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There is no private law firm where the defeated candidates can retire.
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The first, the Digest, was the classical Roman private law of the jurists.
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Rather we should begin by asking why we have a distinction between public and private law .
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The question of whether, as a matter of private law , individual solicitors were entitled to a pay-out, was irrelevant.
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That composite duty is either a private law duty or a public law duty.
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Public law can, of course, be contrasted with private law.
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Three examples will illustrate the importance of deciding whether a particular activity ought to be regulated by public law or private law.
life
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If Max knew about Modigliani's private life then all Montparnasse would soon be seething with the story.
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Individuals were encouraged to relate politics to every aspect of their public and private lives .
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The effects of alcohol misuse spill over from private life into the workplace, causing inefficiency and accidents as well as absenteeism.
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Where I sense more intrusion into my private life ?
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One has no private life when you take to the boards.
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Any relevant details from her private life .
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It was as well that she did because she had forfeited most of her private life for the sake of her chosen career.
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Every member of staff has a private life which should be respected?
matter
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He was less inclined to be so, it seemed, about private matters .
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That is strictly a private matter between a priest and a sinner.
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Officials there are believed to be dealing with it as a private matter .
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Child-rearing is considered a private matter , and there is no intervention unless a child is abused or neglected.
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Boy sensed that this was a private matter , something to think about but not talk about.
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Some organizations consider their employment policies to be a private matter of contract between the company and its employees.
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On the one hand, bringing up children is seen as a purely private matter .
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Abortion was a private matter between them and their daughters in Seven Sisters schools.
member
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Occasionally governments assist private members with their Bills, particularly by allowing extra parliamentary time.
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But this is not the main point: more important would be the effect on private members .
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A moment's reflection will show that it would make private members more independent.
operator
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Will the investment in new wagons be justified by private operators or leasing companies given the uncertainty of the market?
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Get private operators on the railway and everything will work just fine.
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The brief experience of Stagecoach, the only private operator running regular passenger services, has been mixed.
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Nearly all Britain's hazardous waste is handled by private operators .
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But private operators can turn profits only if prices rise radically and rapidly.
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One of them, set up by six private operators , runs 80 cinemas that meet international standards.
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Fifteen states have passed laws enabling private operators to run roads and railways: the state of Washington did so last month.
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The state expected to raise US$3,500 million from the divestment of its controlling shares to private operators .
ownership
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In most developing countries, private ownership is already the rule.
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The market-based economies and private ownership in Western democracies make an essential difference in the scope and application of the centralization concepts.
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The main characteristics of capitalism are private ownership of capital and freedom of enterprise.
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He also proposed a referendum on private ownership of land.
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And yet private ownership is basic to freedom.
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The second step in recreating a market economy is to restore private ownership of capital.
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It is not enough simply to suggest justifications for the existence of private ownership .
pension
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How is the free-market economy to be reconciled with continued large-scale tax concessions for house mortgages and private pensions ?
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President Clinton is also tinkering with private pension plans to finance his own social agenda.
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Their ambitions were to own their own homes and have private pensions .
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The Clinton administration also has been looting the $ 3. 5 trillion private pension system.
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Despite the spread of private pensions , 75 percent of pensioners lived on less than £3,500 a year.
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He is comparing the state pension in this country with the cumulative state and private pensions abroad.
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One in six own shares; most now have private pensions .
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We will protect private pensions , and increase the basic state pension, making it payable as of right without means testing.
practice
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Articles which are available in commerce or industry may well include a period in private practice .
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When he returned to private practice , he had taken in his son James as his partner.
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This latter point was supported by a small number of respondents from private practice .
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Among the other clients Ruff has represented in private practice are Sen.
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However, a private practice background, either during or after articles, is no bar to subsequent progress in local government.
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In addition, a small but growing number of music therapists work in private practice .
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So, as a lawyer in private practice seeking to win new business, what does this mean for you?
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In my view, the lawyers in private practice are, on the whole, bright and devious.
property
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The city is subsidizing private property managers to renovate and buy 200 city-owned apartment buildings.
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Runtal lived much of his life in labor camps on private property , but never in Agbayani Village.
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The town fields might well be private property and held by only half-a-dozen farmers.
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The setting could be a riverbank on private property .
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However I've been told there is no law of trespass as long as there is due consideration to private property .
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It starts in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve and runs into private property on the mountain that is about to be developed.
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The dig is on private property .
school
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An obvious example is education, where a child attends either a state school or a private school.
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Like tuition, teacher credentials and class size vary widely at private schools .
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In this very poor country, private school fees are beyond the means of much of the population.
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In other cases, schools escort students back and forth from their private schools to public classrooms.
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At ten she was awarded a choral scholarship to a private school in London.
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Some are run by private schools or firms, on contract with school districts.
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After an education in private schools , he became a laboratory assistant at the Runcorn Soap &038; Alkali Co.
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Alistair had graduated private school at seventeen, not brilliantly, but not badly either.
secretary
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Nominally he merely continued as parliamentary private secretary to Law at the Treasury.
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Lorna ... Al Moore's girl, Brimmer's most trusted and very private secretary .
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With her were only her private secretary and the ever-present detective.
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He sent his private secretary down the corridor to see Sir Norman Brook to ask if they could be provided.
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In 1976 Cardinal Hume appointed the then Father Crowley as his private secretary .
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A sealed package had arrived from Mars: a copy of the files Karr had taken from Berdichev's private secretary .
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Berowne's private secretary spoke after the manner of his kind.
sector
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Overall, the value of new commissions in the private sector fell by 23 percent.
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The business population Businesses constitute the second major aggregate of the private sector .
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The focus of this will be the expansion of sales to the private sector and to selected overseas markets.
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The two now do for the private sector what they used to do for Communist Party leaders.
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We have two private sector initiatives.
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I would say that the private sector would be decisive in the long term.
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Washington could best use its limited resources in attempts to mobilize the private sector .
sphere
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Without undervaluing the private sphere itself, we can still say that this arrangement works to the advantage of men.
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They were seen instead as being naturally subject to their husbands and necessarily confined to the private sphere .
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Women used their supposedly greater spirituality as a further justification for transcending the confines of the private sphere .
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For most people, identity derives from the private sphere , not from work and public affairs.
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The private sphere becomes the natural home of modern man.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
for general/public/private etc consumption
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But these things aren't for public consumption .
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Far from it, what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately.
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Most of its contents was judged too personal-and possibly too politically sensitive-for public consumption .
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This Government talks tough for public consumption but has no stomach for action.
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Those on the right endorse the first half of the argument but not the second, at least for public consumption .
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When the media found out, his private exercise of his personal beliefs became a subject for public consumption .
the private sector
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Private sector housing is just too expensive for low-income families in the city at the moment.
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Increasingly, researchers are seeking funds from the private sector.
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The government is now turning to the private sector for alternative ways of dealing with the country's transportation problems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Private hospitals can afford to pay much higher salaries than state-run hospitals.
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private property
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a private college
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After his death the author's family released many of his private papers.
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Brando is a private man who almost never gives interviews to the press.
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Brian had an irritating habit of saying, "It'll be fine!", whenever she mentioned any of her private fears.
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Clarence refused to comment on the state of his marriage, saying, it "is a private matter which we'd like to keep private.''
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Do you think the teaching in private schools is better than in state schools?
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Each guest has a private bathroom.
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Earlier the Dalai Lama had spent six days in England on a private visit.
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Guy had to obey his superiors, no matter what his private thoughts on the matter.
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He doesn't talk much about his family - he's a very private person.
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He keeps his private papers locked away in the top drawer of his desk.
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I've got something to tell you. Can we go somewhere private ?
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Lou's a very private person - I don't know anything about her family.
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Susan is trying to balance her private life and her work.
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The book contains extracts from his diary and private letters.
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The garden's very private - it's not overlooked by anyone.
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The government plans to sell part of the railway network to private investors.
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The two leaders held private talks in June to try to resolve the dispute.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was also reportedly considering several offers from private businesses.
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If she undergoes surgery, it will take place in a private hospital and will be paid for by Zapatista supporters.
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If the government sells bonds to pay for its spending, interest rates rise and the private sector is squeeze.
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It also had many of the features of a private club, operated and run for the benefit of its members.
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It can do this primarily by cutting its own expenditures and by raising taxes so as to curtail private spending.
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The figures that she gave referred to comparisons with the private sector, not the national health service.
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There are four bedrooms, all with en suite or private facilities and fine views.
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There are twin, double and single rooms available, all with private facilities and most with a balcony.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But unlike her workmates her privates were threatened in other quarters.
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The private was the nest of domestic virtues: the public was the arena of prostitution, of vice on the streets.
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The same Southern private wrote graphically of another problem he and his comrades had to contend with, that of body lice.
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The victim was a 21-year-old Army private .