Public is used with these nouns:
acceptance, access, acclaim, accommodation, accountability, accountancy, accusation, acknowledgement, act, address, administration, affair, agency, agenda, agitation, alarm, amenity, anger, announcement, anxiety, apathy, apology, appearance, appetite, appointment, appreciation, approval, archive, arena, art, assembly, asset, assistance, association, attention, attitude, auction, authority, awareness, backlash, bar, bathroom, benefactor, benefit, body, broadcaster, building, bus, campaign, care, celebration, cemetery, censure, ceremony, character, choice, clamour, clinic, collection, college, comment, commission, commitment, company, concern, concert, condemnation, confession, confidence, consciousness, consultation, consumption, controversy, corporation, corruption, criticism, curiosity, cynicism, danger, database, debate, debt, decency, declaration, demand, demonstration, denunciation, dialogue, diplomacy, disagreement, disapproval, discontent, discussion, disgrace, disgust, disillusionment, disorder, display, dispute, dissatisfaction, distrust, disturbance, document, domain, donation, duty, education, embarrassment, employee, employer, employment, engagement, enquiry, enterprise, entertainment, enthusiasm, entity, esteem, examination, execution, exhibit, exhibition, expectation, expenditure, expense, exposure, expression, face, facility, faith, fascination, favour, fear, feeling, feud, figure, finance, footpath, forum, fund, funding, funeral, furore, fury, gallery, garden, gathering, gaze, grief, hall, health, hearing, high school, highway, holiday, hospital, hostility, housing, humiliation, hygiene, hysteria, image, imagination, importance, impression, inconvenience, indecency, indifference, indignation, inspection, institution, interest, investment, knowledge, land, launch, lavatory, lecture, letter, librarian, library, life, loo, manifestation, meeting, memorial, memory, menace, mind, money, monopoly, monument, mood, moral, morality, mourning, museum, nature, need, notice, notoriety, nuisance, office, official, opinion, opposition, order, outcry, outrage, ownership, panic, park, participation, path, penance, perception, performance, phone, place, policy, praise, procession, proclamation, profile, project, prominence, property, prosecutor, protest, purse, radio, rally, reaction, reading, realm, rebuke, reception, recognition, record, referendum, register, regulation, relation, report, representative, reprimand, reputation, resistance, resource, response, responsibility, restroom, revenue, rhetoric, ridicule, rift, ritual, road, row, safety, sanitation, scandal, scepticism, school, scorn, scrutiny, sculpture, sector, self, sentiment, servant, service, session, setting, sex, shame, show, showing, sidewalk, space, speaker, spectacle, speech, spending, sphere, spirit, spotlight, squabble, squalor, square, stance, stand, standing, statement, stature, subsidy, success, support, sympathy, system, talk, taste, telecommunications, telephone, television, tender, testimony, toilet, transit, transport, transportation, trial, trust, trustee, understanding, undertaking, unease, university, unrest, uproar, utility, venue, view, virtue, visibility, ward, watchdog, welfare, will, worship