Example sentences of "[prep] [art] police [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The minister , Mr Kobie Coetsee , said that a prosecution would be brought against the former security branch policeman on death row , Almond Nofomela , for the police murder of the civil rights lawyer , Griffiths Mxenge .
2 During the police search of the house Mrs Cynthia Jarrett collapsed .
3 As appropriates involves assuming the rights of an owner the interview between the police officer in the case and the accused can be important .
4 My associations with Wenceslas Square were not so much with the events of 1989 , though it was here on the 18th November that the crowds gathered to protest about the police violence of the night before .
5 It 's the members of the police committee at the end of the day that 've had endorsed what the chief constable had done , and it 's their councils that are gon na suffer .
6 A shopkeeper who refused to sell constables cigarettes at a discount and complained of the illegal sale of similar goods to the public from their own trading organization , the Police Guild , could find himself summonsed by the same officers for employing children under age ( which in turn gave rise to the banning of the Police Guild by the Watch Committee ) .
7 Always the demand is for ‘ practical ’ skills , while academic analysis remains a despised pastime , so that even the Superintendents ' Association ( the equivalent of the Police Federation for the lower ranks ) has similarly denied any place for intellectualism for its members .
8 Committal proceedings are supposed to test the soundness of the prosecution 's case but , on the whole , nothing of the kind is achieved because defence lawyers prefer to reserve their probing of the police case for the trial , where they may deploy the tactics of surprise to greatest effect .
9 Mm right now , now you mention that you phoned the police about when you had your purse stolen , erm are y have , what do you think of the police presence around the flats ?
10 Does the Chairman share my concern regarding the Home Secretary 's proposals containing the white paper on Police which will dramatically reduce local accountability of the Police service to the Leicestershire public .
11 Earlier cases had tended to defer to the judgment of the police officer on the spot without setting out an objective definition to which he or she was required to adhere .
12 ‘ did use ( or cause , or permit … to use ) ’ 'Use' is generally proved by the observation of the police officer to the effect ‘ I stopped the motor vehicle … which was being driven in Queens Street and spoke to the driver …
13 Mark Stevenson , of Lambeth Road , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , visited Cleveland Police 's traffic unit at Cannon Park , Middlesbrough , to hand over his picture of the police car of the future .
14 As of today the operations of the police force in the field of internal intelligence have been stopped , ’ Mr Calfa said .
15 The Divisional Court said that this did not matter and was not caught by section 78 , which the judges stressed was concerned with no more than the narrow question of the effect of the police practice on the fairness of the proceedings in court .
16 Details of the police inquiry into the death were given by acting inspector David Hall at the resumed inquest in Newcastle .
17 She picked up the bag , checked inside to see that everything was still there , and was about to confiscate the switchblade when she heard the sound of a police siren in the distance .
18 Failure to obey any instructions he or she might issue in this context may amount to the statutory offence of obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty , for which the sentence can be either imprisonment or a substantial fine .
19 He was arrested and , although there was no blockage of the highway , disorder , or violence , he was later charged with obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty .
20 The overwhelming majority of Scottish cases related to one of four offences : conduct likely or intended to cause a breach of the peace , obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his or her duty , criminal damage or breach of bail conditions ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) .
21 Police shot dead three men in a raid on a Cairo flat on Dec. 19 , 1988 , one of whom was an Islamic militant wanted for the killing of a police officer in the Cairo district of Ain Shams earlier that month .
22 Irrespective of its formal purpose to introduce community policing , the appearance of a neighbourhood patrol restricts its effects to simply the demonstration of a police presence on the streets .
23 In due course , she was charged with and convicted of obstruction of a police constable in the execution of his duty .
24 Joe was taken in the back of a police van to the Divisional Headquarters on Vine Street .
25 The hotline has been established for former pupils , families and staff at New Barns school at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which is at the centre of a police investigation after the vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton was arrested and questioned about alleged pornography .
26 It was widely suspected that the Tucayana had links with the military and had been involved with anti-insurgency operations against the Jungle Commandos and that they feared the establishment of a police force for the interior composed mainly of former Jungle Commando members .
27 ‘ That was not felt to be the most suitable way of proceeding in this matter , ’ he says , sounding like a police spokesman for the first time .
28 The caravan has a canopy , disabled access and has been painted to look like a police car from the back ! ’
29 From the 1840s public anxiety had also been focused on prostitution , the ‘ great social evil ’ , by studies from evangelical clerics and medics , and by rescue and reform societies campaigning for a police crackdown on the London streets .
30 Police were not informed and the matter only came to light last year during a police investigation into the running of children 's homes in North Wales .
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