Example sentences of "[prep] [art] police [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The horses are the most feared weapon in the police armoury on the picket line and they are very effective . |
| 6 | She had asked Mr Hedley to look in the police car on the verge . |
| 7 | Joyce went across to speak to the police officer on the man 's behalf and , as he did so , was jostled by a heckler whom he disposed of with ‘ a tap on the head ’ . |
| 8 | Guo Weichang had stabbed 20 women on Shanghai buses before he was seized by a police chief on the same bus as the 21st . |