Example sentences of "[noun sg] by the police " in BNC.
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| 1 | A final experiment by the police at labour organization backfired disastrously . |
| 2 | My boyfriend drank too much the other night and was followed home in his car by the police . |
| 3 | The Labour party won control of Derbyshire with a substantial majority in 1981 and the inspector of constabulary says that there have been at least eight years of progressive underfunding by the police committee — 1.8 per cent . |
| 4 | This point ( Wojtas 1982 ) occurs in a description of a new research centre for Police Studies at Strathclyde University , which is ‘ to ask whether anyone is doing research on the police , what degree of co-operation they have met … and to encourage research by the police themselves ’ . |
| 5 | Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services . |
| 6 | The government 's precipitate withdrawal led to an alcohol-inspired and wholly unsuccessful attempt by the Police Commissioner and Controller of the Bougainville State of Emergency , Paul Tohian , to mobilize the police and Army against the government [ see p. 37320 ] . |
| 7 | The more serious the violation by the police and the less serious the charge the more likely it is that the evidence will be inadmissible , though there are occasions in Scotland where crucial evidence has been struck out in serious cases which include murder . |
| 8 | Tania Probyn 's white Renault car was discovered in the murky waters of the river Severn after two days of an intensive search by the police . |
| 9 | Not only are victims denied immediate help , they are subsequently kept in the dark by the police and courts about what is going on . |
| 10 | A strategy of re-investigation by the police itself might not , at least at first , provide an invincible check on mistakes . |
| 11 | Lack of any firm action by the police even led the Board to take the whole issue to the High Court . |
| 12 | This record should be made available to the suspect on request and is designed to facilitate any complaints of unjustifiable action by the police . |
| 13 | VIOLENT crime in Scotland has escalated sharply , with a rapid growth in the most serious offences producing figures likely to lead to fresh demands for urgent action by the police and the Government . |
| 14 | According to Geary ( 1985 ) this history went through five distinct phases , each characterised by its own dominant form of disorder by strikers and preferred type of control tactic by the police or military . |
| 15 | OVER £206,000 has been paid in compensation by the Police Authority for alleged misconduct by RUC officers , Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew has disclosed . |
| 16 | In recent months , thanks to several timely discoveries of bombs and equipment by the police , many hoped that tighter security could make last year 's bomb a one-off . |
| 17 | The themes in the coverage were : the number and nastiness of the attacks ; how he did it in detail ; his sex life ; the causal effect of pornographic videos ; the chase by the police . |
| 18 | A mammoth enforcement campaign by the police has also produced dividends . |
| 19 | For many years it has been known that black people are more likely than whites to be admitted to hospital for treatment of mental disorder , more likely to be admitted compulsorily following being arrested in a public place by the police and far more likely to be diagnosed as having schizophrenia than white people . |
| 20 | Mr John Bates for the prosecution [ when six football supporters were charged ] said : ‘ While a football match years ago used to be regarded as one of the perks of the job by the police , it is now the reverse . |
| 21 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 22 | They had been joined on the site by the police marksmen . |
| 23 | Was that a move by the police to undermine the new authorities ? |
| 24 | Then we thought it might have been something criminal — but Joe is clever enough to steer clear of anything illegal , the last think he needs is investigation by the police . |
| 25 | They were reinstated by the deputy chief constable on the grounds that the investigation by the Police Complaints Authority had produced no evidence that they had removed anything from the Crown Court file . |
| 26 | The applicants , Coventry Newspapers Ltd. , ( ‘ C.N.L. ’ ) , defendants in a libel action brought against them by David Woodley and Roger Clifford , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that C.N.L. were at liberty to receive from Michael Thomas Bromell copies of all such witness statements , notes , notebooks and other documents which had come into existence in the course of an investigation by the Police Complaints Authority into the conduct of David Woodley and Roger Clifford as had been read to or by the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) or had been referred to in open court during the hearing of Reg. v. Bromell ( unreported ) , 22 June 1992 , C.A. , on a reference , dated 10 May 1991 , of his case by the Home Secretary under section 17(1) ( a ) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 ; and/or ( 2 ) variation of the implied undertaking pursuant to which Michael Thomas Bromell had received the documents under the order of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) on 9 July 1991 , so as to permit him to disclose copies of all such documents described in ( 1 ) above to C.N.L. for the purpose of defending the libel action . |
| 27 | Following a special audit and an investigation by the police fraud squad , the Attorney General recommended that Cariscot should be put into receivership . |
| 28 | New Barnes School is the subject of a separate investigation by the police and social services into child abuse and has remained closed since it shut down early for the Summer break . |
| 29 | Bodie glanced at the wreck of the Stones ' car as it was slowly winched back across the pavement by the police breakdown truck . |
| 30 | The report would need to include any denial by the police , but it might go on to comment that whether the allegations were true or not , their existence undermined the confidence of the community in the officers , and for this reason the officers should be transferred . |