Example sentences of "[adj] police [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends . |
| 2 | Although the funds had come from Hurley 's budget , the yacht was bought in the name of Andreous Kasikopu , a retired Cypriot marine police captain who looked remarkably like Claude Rains . |
| 3 | On principle , Hurley refused to share information with the Germans and British , except when he needed their cooperation for controlled deliveries through Frankfurt and London , but , braving his disapproval , Coleman made a point of renewing his friendship with Hartmut Mayer , the German police officer whom he had met in Munich during the 1972 Olympics and who was now the BKA 's liaison officer on Cyprus . |
| 4 | Rabat : A TOP police chief who confessed to having sex with more than 1,600 women in a three-year spree of rape and abduction was sentenced to death yesterday . |
| 5 | Outside the incongruous police trailer she paused and knocked smartly on the door . |
| 6 | Consequently , Lord Haldane was careful to present his Army reforms as designed to create ‘ an Imperial police force which can be sent on small expeditions , on short notice ’ — a rationale which , he calculated , would be acceptable to most pacifists . |
| 7 | My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’ |
| 8 | He said that they would support intensified police activity which would include " high density patrols … to stop the infiltration of MK members " ( members of Umkhonto we Sizwe , the military wing of the ANC ) . |
| 9 | Hence , the quotation marks around the word ‘ doing ’ emphasize that it has a technical meaning in sociology , for lying behind the process is a body of common-sense and official police knowledge which informs the methods and practices according to which activities are done . |
| 10 | Hawkins ' qualities in this sort of role were deployed again ln a film that brought together the American director John Ford and former Ealing writer T. E. B. Clarke , Gideon 's Day ( 1959 , Gideon of Scotland Yard in US ) , where he plays a slightly muddled police officer who , in true English fashion , only reveals his mettle under pressure . |
| 11 | He said this , in the thirty years that have passed since the previous Police Act became law , the old tripartite structure which consisted police authorities , chief constables and the Home Secretary , has provided an effective police service which can still truthfully be described as not only the best in the world , but also the envy of the world . |
| 12 | The roughest police treatment he got , it seems , was in the West . |
| 13 | The number of police-officers in England and Wales grew from nearly 76,000 in 1961 to nearly 110,00 in 1976 , and nearly 122,000 in 1986. police strength his not , however , kept pace with the increase in recorded crime . |
| 14 | In practical terms , the gates and fence probably have little advantage over the waist-high barrier and high-profile police presence which has effectively sealed Downing Street from the public for eight years . |
| 15 | As I have shown above , there is a strong tendency in the organization to dismiss the social sciences , and it therefore seems fair to suggest that any police officer who elects to read for a degree in that discipline is knowingly placing himself into a position of outsider . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The eventual dissolution of such right-wing paramilitary security bodies as the Treasury Police and National Guard , and the formation , under international supervision , of a new civilian police force which former FMLN guerrillas would be allowed to join . |
| 18 | Some idea of how badly the police were treated is given by the reports of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner which show that roughly one-in-four of London 's policemen were assaulted each year — 3,444 cases were reported in 1899 , for example , when the constabulary strength was 13,213 men and 1,949 sergeants — as police authorities pressed for firmer measures in assault cases . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If anyone was to take on the role of the state police it would be the Metropolitan Police Force who have got experts and if say something happened in Manchester like an I R A bombers left some bombs in Manchester , experts from the Metropolitan Police would go to Manchester to help out , they 're what 's known as the Anti-Terrorist Squad |
| 21 | CND had planned a number of marches in London for that summer but they were affected by a ban on all public processions ( other than those traditionally held ) in the Metropolitan Police District which was imposed for a twenty-eight-day period by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , with the consent of the Home Secretary , under section 3 of the Public Order Act 1936 . |
| 22 | For example , in 1980 in the Metropolitan police district there were fewer than 2,000 cases of the use of knives in offences of violence against the person and 1,240 cases where knives were used in robberies . |
| 23 | The female police officer who was hurt with a slight ankle injury when a car ran over her foot , was allowed home from hospital after treatment . |
| 24 | The Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel announced on Nov. 8 the formation of a new police unit which would have the specific task of stabilizing and controlling political unrest . |
| 25 | The alarm was raised shortly afterwards by a milkman and officers in a passing police car who spotted the smoke and flames . |
| 26 | Cutting back and forward furiously , Royston tries to include the complex relationship between Ruth 's father and his ageing ‘ boy ’ , Tim ( Ilarrio Bisi-Pedro ) ; as well as a portrait of Gumede , a freedom fighter on the verge of lunacy — excellently played by Osei Bentil ; and an analysis of a South African police Colonel who is affably stark mad . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Coffin was the other police officer who saw them . |
| 29 | But of course you 've now got the modern police station you know . |
| 30 | 10 years later , in spite of a massive police investigation which named the officers guilty of Blair 's death , not a single policeman has faced prosecution or disciplinary action . |