Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] [prep] [art] police " in BNC.

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1 Societal divisions are such that neighbourhood patrols are dangerous and have to take on the appearance of armed convoys , but it is the style of policing which comes nearest to breaching the divide between the police and the community , so that the RUC is required to be persistent in utilizing it even though there are few obvious signs of success and despite the cost in human life .
2 In order to terrify the population into accepting the existence of the police .
3 All over Vienna posters appeared demanding the resignation of the police chief who had given the orders to shoot .
4 Irwin eventually secured his capitulation by confessing to him that , as head of the government , with no guarantee that civil disobedience might not start again , he was unable to risk jeopardizing the morale of the police force .
5 Thousands of pounds worth of antiques are filling the cells of a police station while officers try to find out whether they were stolen .
6 The means of warning the public via the police , radio , television , newspapers and even electric signs along roads or in public places when pollution concentrations reach health alert levels .
7 This point can be proved by describing the vehicle in the police officer 's statement who is dealing with the case , e.g. ‘ I caused the defendant , John Smith to stop the Ford saloon motor car registered number … etc . ’
8 Such indiscretions are rare ; Decree 23 stipulates that it is an offence to communicate with foreigners without reporting the conversation to the police .
9 There had been an aura of menace about the boy even at that age , and Tom had often pondered his real reason for not reporting the incident to the police .
10 Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office .
11 Only with great care , of course , because you know that if you are caught breaking the limit by the police , the consequences will be unpleasant — a summons , a court case , a fine , perhaps an endorsement .
12 ( b ) The admissibility of illegally obtained evidence As we discussed in Chapter 2 , one way of controlling the activities of the police and of ensuring that they do not act unlawfully is to prevent the admissibility of evidence which is obtained by illegal means .
13 Finally , our research indicates that area of residence needs to be taken into account in comparing the experiences of the police of Blacks and Whites .
14 If necessary , a police officer can search under this section before taking the suspect to the police station ( s. 18(5) ) .
15 Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could .
16 It emerged that a video camera had been trained on part of the premises of the night club and on an area where an incident preceding the arrival of the police and part of the incident said to be the violent disorder had taken place .
17 They intend to make no statement at the moment because they are still awaiting the outcome of the police investigation .
18 Initially , in November , which is three months after Stavrogin was quoting Hamlet , Kirillov 's ‘ ROLE IS A FACTUAL ONE ’ — by which Dostoevsky means he ‘ volunteered to shoot himself for the common cause ’ and leave a letter claiming responsibility for Shatov 's murder , thus diverting the attention of the police from Peter Verkhovensky and the quintet .
19 In other words , what would appear to be required is some awareness on the part of the defendant that he was making the task of the police a more difficult one , and this element may have been lacking in Willmott v. Atack , which would explain why the appeal was allowed .
20 Thus a boy with a reputation for challenging the authority of his teacher in school , or with a record of resisting the restraints of the police , might find it easier to be accepted in the aggro-leader role .
21 I lay there , half crying and pretending not to be hurt , as Charlie continued to pace , flinging flowered clothes into the street below and discussing the possibility of a police force being set up to arrest and imprison rock guitarists who bent their knees while they played .
22 In return for recognising the legality of the police practice of detaining suspects after arrest , but before charge , the Act attempts to give some protection to the suspect by imposing time limits on the period of detention , by introducing a system of review to ensure that detention remains necessary and by introducing a series of statutory rights supervised by the custody officer , and a Code of Practice on Detention and Questioning .
23 An argument broke out about the wisdom of delivering the box to the police .
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