Example sentences of "[verb] in the public [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For many years both companies had been associated in the public 's mind as loss-making nationalised industries . |
| 5 | Last night Oftel and its chief Ian Byatt were accused of failing to act in the public 's interests . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |