Example sentences of "[adj] police [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some police divisions I know there are no soldiers . ’ |
| 2 | In some police stations we 've identified criminals actually stand more chance of being cautioned than prosecuted . |
| 3 | Outside the incongruous police trailer she paused and knocked smartly on the door . |
| 4 | My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’ |
| 5 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 6 | The roughest police treatment he got , it seems , was in the West . |
| 7 | You have only so many police officers you can use and it 's taking our eye off the ball , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Erdogan Kizilkaya claims that when he arrived at Kayseri Police Headquarters he was stripped and taken to an interrogation room where electric shocks were applied to his penis , hands and feet . |
| 9 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 10 | For example , in Malone v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner it was held that since there was no law against telephone tapping and it did not amount to any common law wrong , it was not unlawful for the police to engage in it . |
| 11 | If a form HO/RT/1 is issues and the driver elects to produce the document at a distant police station it is good practice to also request the suspected driver to produce his registration document at the same time . |
| 12 | The er the special problems the complex presents at the moment , are very minimal compared to what er other police officers I 've spoke to who 've worked the flats in the past , have told me about . |
| 13 | But of course you 've now got the modern police station you know . |
| 14 | At the local police station it was the Serbian flag , not the federal colours , that was hoisted and saluted before the cameras of state-run Belgrade television . |