Example sentences of "arrest [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised . |
| 2 | Typically sparked off by what might have been seen as an unfair arrest or an arbitrary use of police power , resistance to arrest on this scale was such an entirely , common feature of working-class life before the Great War that it constitutes the most articulate demolition of the myths of deep-rooted popular respect for law and authority in England . |
| 3 | On April 23 the government tabled a bill providing for indemnity against prosecution , detention or arrest for political activists — including exiles who wished to return home — facing criminal or civil charges . |
| 4 | He staggered off towards a nearby Black Maria ( preferring , at this point , arrest to sudden death ) , jumped in the back and was greeted by one of the officers with the words ‘ fascist scum ’ and a ‘ boot in the face ’ . |
| 5 | He and a friend , Trevor Nott , were arrested as suspected accomplices in a visa-forging ring . |
| 6 | BUILDING work on a new county jail in Florida was falling woefully behind schedule , despite the critical need for additional space to house the many arrested as suspected drug offenders . |
| 7 | They were arrested during early morning raids on nine addresses in London and the Home Counties and taken to Cannon Row police station in central London . |
| 8 | An elderly Casamance activist , Fr Augustin Diamacoun Senghor was among a large number of southerners arrested during this period . |
| 9 | The official New China News agency ( Xinhua ) reported that in the first nine months of the year 11,503 people had been arrested for such crimes . |
| 10 | However , student demonstrations erupted at Bangkok 's Ramkhamhaeng University on Feb. 25 , and 15 people were arrested for illegal assembly . |
| 11 | Examples are plentiful : an individual defending an extradition application in a municipal court is a third party to the extradition treaty between the requesting State and the State of detention ; the crew of a fishing vessel arrested for illegal activities within another State 's exclusive economic zone are third parties to agreements delimiting fishing zones ; individuals claiming refugee status rely upon the terms of the Refugee Treaty . |
| 12 | After his partner in a film production company was arrested for financial fraud , it turned out that the charming , fast-talking McDevitt had also been convicted in a bungled 1980 art robbery that mirrored the Gardner theft . |
| 13 | I came to tell you that Harry Martin has been arrested for fraudulent land dealing . |
| 14 | Five other Western nationals had been arrested for alleged border offences in August and September [ see pp. 39069 ; 39116 ] . |
| 15 | He was arrested for alleged possession of drugs while he was riding a motorcycle . |
| 16 | Mr Gannon , of Selby Crescent , Darlington , died in cells at Darlington police station on March 8 after he was arrested for alleged drinking and driving . |
| 17 | The RUC said ‘ a handful ’ of people were arrested for alleged impersonation at polling stations in other parts of Ulster . |
| 18 | On Dec. 27 it was announced that 53 students had been arrested for alleged membership of the Democratic Students League ( DSL ) . |
| 19 | In local government in Rome , Edmondo Angele , the councillor with responsibility for Heritage , was arrested for alleged extortion while negotiating a contract to improve the navigability of the Tiber ; a building firm called Gruppo Acqua grew from nothing in 1973 to become a multi-national which recently won a contract in Moscow to fight pollution . |
| 20 | Police will know families of men arrested for criminal offences . |
| 21 | A police spokesman last night confirmed that one person was arrested for criminal damage after the incident on Friday night , but had not yet been charged . |
| 22 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 23 | Amnesty claimed that Moslem fundamentalists made up the majority of the 8,000 people arrested for political reasons in 1989 . |
| 24 | During the trial a witness described seeing bodies ‘ stacked like dominoes ’ amid the rubble but the cold-hearted killer from the Bogside defiantly displayed no remorse when arrested for mass murder in 1983 . |
| 25 | And although the names given of some of the boys arrested for these offences — David Stones and Arthur Gobbing , for example — suggest the possibility of a hoax , police reports repeatedly referred to ‘ this dangerous practice ’ and that ‘ the danger to the public seems sufficiently marked to warrant some special steps ’ . |
| 26 | It was strange to be back there and my memories were not pleasant : starving in the depths of winter , being beaten up , arrested for some misunderstanding and half-hanged at Montfaucon . |
| 27 | In the end we were both arrested for several crimes . |
| 28 | I am writing to you about the case of Im Su-Kyong , who was arrested for ten years for attending a peace march from North Korea to South Korea . |
| 29 | The thing is , she was arrested for ten years for going to North Korea without government permission . |
| 30 | On 31 August 1948 it seemed certain that another glorious Hollywood career was about to be poured down the drain when Robert Mitchum was arrested for smoking marijuana . |