Adjective complement with noun phrase

• infect: Indeed, it is drawing its strength from the long list of health panics that have infected the body politic in recent years.

• immunize: Tribal patriotism is a powerful vaccine that immunizes the body politic against self-criticism.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It seemed politic to check the Third and Second Divisions rather than to further complicate the situation with our presence.

Infinitive complement

• say: Someone was sending the comfortable citizens of Edinburgh poison-pen letters, but the recipients thought it politic to say nothing about them.

• admit: Nevertheless, it was far more formidable that was politic to admit in the newspapers of Dublin and London.

Preposition: in

• term: The consequences for the body politic in terms of obstacles to the realization of citizenship are similarly widespread.

Preposition: of

• country: The modern conception of citizenship is one which relates to membership of the body politic of the country.