Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROPOSALS to stop people drinking in public places in Colchester have been dropped after police said that their existing powers were adequate . |
| 2 | Up to 4,000 spectators are expected and police believe around 500 journalists from around the world will cover the 3pm service . |
| 3 | Earlier , the trial had been told that police had set up road blocks north of Perth as part of another inquiry when the white Cavalier containing what police described as ‘ seasoned criminals ’ had burst through . |
| 4 | William 's solicitor believes much of the trauma could have been avoided if police had checked their identification files sooner since William looked nothing like the suspect who was at least twenty years younger . |
| 5 | Twenty people have been arrested and police say more arrests may follow . |
| 6 | More than 300 customers and 50 staff had to be evacuated as police searched for a bomb . |
| 7 | On the M-Four the westbound carriageway at junction thirteen had to be closed while police tried to recover a lorry . |
| 8 | This meant foot patrols would be reduced and police stations might have to cut opening hours , he said . |
| 9 | That weapon 's yet to be found and police have been searching through the gardens of nearby houses and lifting drains in the surrounding area looking for the knife . |
| 10 | The Department of Transport has made a serious error , can we be assured that police authorities will receive financial compensation for the work that their forces are now havin have are going to have to carry out and there is a further matter which I have erm drawn to the attention of the Secretary of State for Transport in er correspondence , namely the need to establish a new and representative police authority for the British Transport Police . |
| 11 | Support for MacDonald had remained strong among some of the 200,000 Navajo and violence broke out during a protest march on his behalf in Window Rock on July 22 ; two men died and nine were wounded when police opened fire . |
| 12 | A report on Radio France Internationale said that , in addition , 17 people were wounded when police fired on crowds . |
| 13 | Hundreds more were injured when police attacked the demonstration and Clarence Baker spent weeks close to death . |
| 14 | Twenty five officers were injured when police moved in to disperse a crowd of 200–300 youths , mainly Asian , outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel . |
| 15 | Indeed , the first moves in this direction occurred in 1986 of course , when as Noble Lords will recall the Metropolitan counties or at least their county councils were abolished and police authorities were created for the same areas as freestanding corporate bodies . |
| 16 | The band , on a sell-out South American tour , were sight-seeing when police with machine guns surrounded them . |
| 17 | Mr Garbutt said after the other two devices were found that police were satisfied the four were linked . |
| 18 | Five youths were arrested after police spotted them outside with the 3ft high mascot . |
| 19 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 20 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 21 | The men , aged 22 and 35 , were arrested after police swooped at addresses at Kidderminster and Stourport-on-Severn . |
| 22 | On Oct. 11 five Polish nationals living in Frankfurt and Bochum were arrested when police uncovered consignments of radio-active caesium and strontium believed to have originated in the former Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Five girls and one boy were arrested as police struggled to control the brawl . |
| 24 | Altogether six vehicles were involved and police say some motorists may have been driving to close . |
| 25 | Police moved in to arrest him , stones were thrown and police then reportedly opened fire . |
| 26 | This evening the men arrested are being questioned and police have appealed for witnesses who may have seen three men running from the area of the shooting last night . |
| 27 | SONGUL KARABULUT and FIKRI KELES : Suspected members of Devrimci Sol ( Revolutionary Left ) , both were killed when police surrounded and fired on a flat in the Dikmen district of Ankara on 4 May 1992 . |
| 28 | However , an Afar member of the Chamber of Deputies , Mohammed Issa Cheicko , claimed on Dec. 18 that 26 men and four women had been killed after police fired indiscriminately into a group of about 100 people whom they had arrested . |
| 29 | The driver of the lorry has been questioned and police have appealed for further witnesses . |
| 30 | It is reported that police were satisfied that the wife acted under duress in the various crimes in which she got involved in . |