Sentence examples for great public services from inspiring English sources

"The two great public services, health and education, were never designed to be job creation schemes," he said.

Why are our politics eternally in thrall to a somewhat strange and very small number of people who want great public services but wince at the requisite taxes?

Paid professional roles will always be essential but we seem to undervalue the role of peers, local communities, service users and patients, seeing them as simply consumers and not co-producers of great public services.

This is an edited extract from John Seddon's latest book, The Whitehall Effect: How Whitehall became the enemy of great public services and what we can do about it, published today by Triarchy Press, priced £20.

The move is part of a decisive shift away from the Blair era, when local authorities were there to deliver great public services and hang the cost, to a new era in which councils will fund themselves in significant part from the proceeds of local economic growth.

"It annoyed him – the pact that seemed to say, 'You can have all these great public services without paying more taxes.' " But Miliband was also a product of the Labour generation whose formative, scarring experience had been Neil Kinnock's defeat in 1992.

This was no great public service.

They also performed a great public service.

So, as a piece of evidence, the video did a great public service.

It should be perfectly possible to run a great public service broadcaster on £3.5bn.

Phone companies entering the cable market are providing a great public service.