Example sentences of "in the public ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor could the courts cope , and there would be a deterioration in the public 's perception of the police as a result of the disjuncture with lay conceptions of legality . |
| 2 | That was matched by a similarly dramatic increase in public perceptions that the party debate had now focused on defence , but by only a small increase in the public 's own concern about the issue . |
| 3 | Such notable films as Gandhi ( a severe treatment of the Raj ) , A Passage to India , and Heat and Dust , even the james Bond spectacular Octopussy , kept the Indian sub-continent securely in the public 's imagination . |
| 4 | When it is set , the artist is immediately linked with an amount of money in the public 's mind . |
| 5 | This raises the status of the ticket in the public 's mind . |
| 6 | By 1987 she and Charles seemed to have reached an all-time low , if not in their marriage , then certainly in the public 's perception of it . |
| 7 | Set backs to chemistry in schools and in the public 's esteem have become regular news — so at least reward my carpentry by reading on ! |
| 8 | One of the great distinctions that can be drawn between football culture in Scotland and England is in the public 's attitude to heroes . |
| 9 | For many years both companies had been associated in the public 's mind as loss-making nationalised industries . |
| 10 | Even so , in the public 's mind fusion and the Sun go together and the fascination with fusion is sometimes akin to ancient sun worship . |
| 11 | Last night Oftel and its chief Ian Byatt were accused of failing to act in the public 's interests . |
| 12 | Although it is plainly easier to examine the narrower conception of the media 's political impact by exploring specific case studies , long-term and fundamental changes in the public 's perceptions of the political world must not be overlooked . |
| 13 | Yet simultaneously rapists , and indeed all men who commit violent sexual offences , are regarded as particularly villainous by the majority of the population , and these crimes have a high priority in the public 's demand for law and order . |
| 14 | In every aspect of his work Caro is brazenly derivative , depending for effect on the assertiveness of scale , and is , in essence , trivial ; but , translated from the Tate Gallery to the Roman Forum ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 5 ) , he is this year the beam in the public 's eye ( would that he were only a mote ) , and thus inevitably the choice of Heaths and Fanfanis . |
| 15 | Both states were regarded as not only undesirable but criminal : after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 , police prosecutions against homosexuals reached a peak in 1953/4 , while the scare headlines accorded by the press to the Clapham Common murder in the summer of 1953 lodged in the public 's heads the equation that people who wore Edwardian clothes would knife you at the drop of a hat . |
| 16 | The latter may simply reply that he does not feel it is in the public 's interest , or that the Police Authority does not strictly require it to effectively carry out its duties . |
| 17 | He was all right financially — he had always been shrewd and he made his money in days when the Inland Revenue had allowed people to keep some of it — but his prospects of regaining his former place in the public 's esteem seemed negligible . |
| 18 | The publicity of Michael Banks 's death had now been replaced in the public 's mind with news of fresh disasters , and the show was running on its own impetus . |
| 19 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the secret of contracting out is the drawing up of a contract between those who buy a service and those who supply it , and that , together with independent inspection , that is an essential ingredient to ensure that quality and standards are maintained in the public 's interest ? |
| 20 | The perceived decrease in the public 's generosity means that it is even more important for businesses , and I mean all business , not just the larger ones that have traditionally provided the pool of resource , to realise that their businesses would only succeed within a healthy society , and a healthy society means the support of business men and business women . |
| 21 | There is an element of despair in the public 's reaction to the apparent spread of the disease , though the current political and moral debate about crime in general may hold out hope of an antidote . |
| 22 | Det Chief Insp John Stoddart described the brick-throwing as a callous , premeditated attack on a police officer who was acting in the public 's interest . |
| 23 | She said last night : ‘ With unemployment at 3m there was never a more important time for the Government 's mishandling of the economy to be kept in the public 's attention . |