1.   Friends of the actor paid tribute to his talent and expressed shock as news of his death became public.

2.   His request was denied after the scandal involving his superiors became public in November.

3.   No one knows how many personal injury cases are settled quietly before trial with the help of apologies which never become public.

4.   Once that commitment became public, the non-government press mounted quite unprecedented pressure for reform in a whole range of different fields.

5.   The House and Senate voted overwhelmingly last month to repeal the tax break only after it had become public.

6.   The professor is something of an outcast in the halls of academe now that his former support of a dictatorial regime has become public.

7.   In the intervening period the decision of the Comintern Congress had become public.

8.   FRIENDS and colleagues of James Hunt paid tribute to his talent and expressed shock last night as news of his death became public.

9.   The success of their campaign in gaining publicity has now raised the possibility that hitherto unseen medical evidence could become public.

10.   Although the identities of the men became public earlier in the day, information about their backgrounds dribbled out slowly.