Example sentences of "[to-vb] in the public [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Many professionals and managers choose to work in the public sector because they wish to give service or believe in the core values of their agency .
2 Who can not the price also be to guarantee the future pension rights of the workers who happen to work in the public company ?
3 Next to suffer in the public perception comes the Government ( 76 per cent ) , followed by the law ( 65 per cent ) the church and journalists ( 59 per cent ) , and the police ( 57 per cent ) .
4 His was too literary , and now too deliberate , a talent to flourish in the public realm of the theatre .
5 WILL MY NAME AND ADDRESS HAVE TO APPEAR IN THE PUBLIC EXTRACT ?
6 The impact of this decision is to give the police greater freedom to arrest in the public interest and correspondingly to devalue the liberty of the individual .
7 If he ca n't find her at home , tell him to look in the public library in the afternoon .
8 But in Athens it was only one of many roles which a citizen could expect to have to play in the public life of the polis .
9 More important than these political links , however , was the shift which the PRG campaign managed to generate in the public discourse about what was ‘ normal ’ and ‘ natural ’ in the family .
10 Nuclear Electric , a third generating company , was to be established to take control of the nuclear power stations and to remain in the public sector .
11 It also accepted that part of AEA would need to remain in the public sector .
12 Members of the Royal Family have long been aware that to remain in the public conscience requires coming to terms with , and feeding , the needs of the media .
13 J. Marshall , Tanners Hill Cottage , Crook : I was standing on the steps of Durham Crown Court waiting to go in the public gallery , the assizes were on .
14 Editor , — I was shocked to read in the public press and in Richard Smith 's editorial of the reaction to research conducted by A Esmail and S Everington .
15 He never wanted to live in the public life .
16 All want CalMac — as the company is affectionately known — to stay in the public sector .
17 ‘ It was such a cold day , ’ said Ianthe , ‘ and you 're not allowed to eat in the Public Record Office , so I thought just for once … = ’ She stopped , feeling that too much attention was being drawn to her and that they ought to be getting on with their work , especially as the Ash Wednesday service had made them late coming back from lunch .
18 This is not because they wish to act in the public interest as exemplified in the values of their political masters , but rather because they wish to succeed in their careers and the way to do so is to appear efficient .
19 It is possession of this kind of power that gives rise to a distinct need for justification , and which forms the basis for the claim that companies must be required to act in the public interest .
20 The primary aim of the central bank is to work closely with the government and so to operate in the public interest .
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