Example sentences of "by a [adj] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had come home during the height of the disturbances to discover their teenage daughter being ravished by a young police officer . |
| 2 | One thinks of the stories of child muggers bearing sharp knives , driven below by a greater police presence upstairs , of the Underground ‘ acid fiend ’ who squirts hydrochloric acid on people 's legs before making his escape , of steamers , hip-hop-styled persons perpetrating economy-sized thefts . |
| 3 | BOY racers who plague the centre of an Essex seaside town are to be tackled by a new police campaign . |
| 4 | Some have called for a boycott of the elections , but most are likely to back the faction of the Akali Dal , the Sikh political party , led by a former police officer , Simranjit Singh Mann . |
| 5 | A Zimbabwean student at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow was shot dead by a Russian police officer on Aug. 11 . |
| 6 | In one of the most outspoken statements ever made by a Metropolitan Police officer of his rank , he says : ‘ The council has been ensuring that as many cases as possible are referred to the SMG , a pernicious organisation spewing out lies and propaganda in pursuance of their own ideological aims . |
| 7 | I am also sorry to report that early on Sunday morning in a separate incident a young man was found dead in west Belfast in a car which had earlier been seen in suspicious circumstances and pursued by police ; that incident is being investigated by a senior police officer and the Independent Commission for Police Complaints has been asked by the RUC to supervise the inquiry . |
| 8 | It was here in 1911 , for instance , that the ruthless , reforming Russian First Minister Peter Stolypin was gunned down by a Jewish police agent in full view of the Tsar , at a gala opera night . |
| 9 | There is no excuse for being caught by a marked police vehicle — but there 's not much you can do about unmarked cars or cameras . |