Example sentences of "[be] [art] police [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 2 | But also because you 're a police officer as well , you 've got the usual warrant card . |
| 3 | ‘ My name is Deacon Billingsley — ’ he paused as though I should recognise the name , ‘ and I am a police officer . ’ |
| 4 | I am a police officer and he is my prisoner . |
| 5 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) in uniform ’ This point can be proved by starting the officer 's or the warden 's evidence by ‘ I am a police constable ( or traffic warden ) in such and such a police force and I was in uniform ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed no one who is , or has been a police officer can be appointed . |
| 7 | ‘ No ! … you can not do this to me … you are a police officer … you dare not … no ! … my God , no ! … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That must be the police inspector , ’ said Paviour . |
| 9 | I 'm a police officer . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I know you 'll think this is funny but I 'm a police officer . |
| 11 | Strangely , though , there appears to be no police urgency to feel a certain goalkeeping jersey collar at Nottingham Forest , despite newspaper pictures showing someone resembling Brian Clough making a sign with two of his fingers . |
| 12 | ‘ Usually , ’ he went on , ‘ when there 's to be a police raid of any sort we know about it before it happens . |
| 13 | Detention is supervised by a custody officer who turns out on closer inspection to be a police officer with a different name . |
| 14 | Well , yeah , I spoke to them like , on the telephone , erm and basically they er and we agreed that we would n't take it any further so it er happened to be a police officer 's view as against our view , and whilst we did n't agree with the view , er we sent enough references to make our point known anyway . |
| 15 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 16 | dad I have n't gon na be a police , but you have to be careful any sort of car can be a police car |
| 17 | The road blocks were a police response to criminal action , a counter to terrorist attacks in this area , he said . |
| 18 | There were no police statements taken and the thing never even looked like coming to court . |
| 19 | There were no police constables . |
| 20 | Being a police officer entails working long and difficult hours ’ ( The Guardian , 3.6. 1986 ) . |
| 21 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 22 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 23 | erm In many cases where Section Five is invoked , erm the only witness is the police officer erm on the spot , and the court case is simply a slanging match between the policeman who says ‘ This was said , ’ and the individual who says , ‘ No , I did n't say it , someone else did , ’ or occasionally somebody will argue , ‘ No , that was n't threatening , it was n't abusive , it was n't insulting . ’ |
| 24 | First , in England and Wales the police authority is the police committee itself rather than the full council ( Loveday 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Next one is the police complaints committee . |
| 26 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 27 | ( Rule of Life No. 307 : when a student , remember — the comrade on the protest march today is the police chief of tomorrow . ) |
| 28 | In Scotland , the full council is the police authority , but one commentator has concluded that ‘ the difference is difficult to discern ’ ( Gordon 1980:77 ) . |
| 29 | The Home Secretary is the police authority for the Metropolitan Police . |
| 30 | So great is the police workload that some crime is simply logged but not investigated . |