Example sentences of "police have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police have charged a seventeen-year-old youth in connection with the incident . |
| 2 | The police have played a key role in the development of this configuration . |
| 3 | Up to now the police have played a passive role with the hippies , preferring to keep a watchful eye on them . |
| 4 | GAMBIAN police have named a man they want to question about the murder of a British conservation worker who was killed in a game reserve in December . |
| 5 | Man named : Police have named a motorcyclist killed in a crash on the A559 near Northwich five days ago as Gregory Bate , 24 , of Clegg Street , Warrington . |
| 6 | Thames Valley Police have appointed a new man to oversee the workings of its complaints and disciplinary department . |
| 7 | The police have made a dreadful mess of it . |
| 8 | The police have done a good job but it 's very difficclt unless you catch them with a box of matches . |
| 9 | Police have uncovered a murder victim 's hidden life after a national television appeal for fresh information . |
| 10 | Police have uncovered a hoard of stolen property which may be the tip of the iceberg in a million-pound series of burglaries . |
| 11 | Police have mounted a series of operations to try to catch the rustling gangs , some of whom are thought to travel from various parts of the country . |
| 12 | POLICE have unveiled a scheme to use private security cameras in an effort to combat bomb outrages in the City of London , a move decided after the April 1992 IRA bombing of the Baltic Exchange , which killed three and injured 80 . |
| 13 | POLICE have unveiled a scheme to use private security cameras in an effort to combat bomb outrages in the City of London , a move decided after the April 1992 IRA bombing of the Baltic Exchange , which killed three and injured 80 . |
| 14 | Now the police have developed a new method , which is used at 60 per cent of fires where arson is suspected . |
| 15 | Police have begun a campaign against car tax dodgers . |
| 16 | The Police have compiled a list of clubs , organisations and interested bodies and are about to launch a major initiative where such bodies will be visited and the over 60 's seen . |
| 17 | So intense was the dosaster , and so complicated that the Thames Valley Police have compiled a computer video showing what happened . |
| 18 | Mounted police have combed a National Trust estate at nearby Christmas Common , but have still drawn a blank in their search for the murder weapon or any bloodstained clothing . |
| 19 | West Mercia Police have submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 20 | The police have spread a wide net to snare him . ’ |
| 21 | The police have staged a reconstruction of events leading up to the murder of parttime model Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common . |
| 22 | Cleveland Police have identified a man found dead on a Middlesbrough cycle-way as Joseph Hawes Thompson , 65 , of Morpeth Avenue , Easterside . |
| 23 | Police have opened a motorway service station to encourage drivers to take a break . |
| 24 | Police have arrested a man who gave his name as … |
| 25 | Meanwhile police have arrested a twenty four year old man in Glasgow 's Milton area in connection with alleged possession of drugs . |
| 26 | The West Midlands police have paid a record seventy thousand pounds for wrongful arrest to Paul Dandy , who was accused of robbery . |
| 27 | For Saturday the police have set a limit of 4,500 . |
| 28 | For Saturday the police have set a limit of 4,500 . |
| 29 | Police have discounted a sectarian motive and are pursuing ‘ a specific line of inquiry . ’ |
| 30 | POLICE have added a decoy patrol vehicle to their fleet in a bid to curb speeding motorists . |