Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Is n't there a case for an official police search ? " |
| 2 | A DISTRAUGHT oil worker wrapped a cartridge belt around his waist and placed the barrels of a loaded shotgun in his mouth during a three-day police siege at a remote country cottage . |
| 3 | ON the eight o'clock radio news that Monday morning there was a substantial piece about an exciting police chase in Essex — understandably , on a rather lonely road . |
| 4 | Hamish Deans and his son George , who were removed from their positions as chairman and vice chairman at the club in May , were on Wednesday charged with fraud after an eight-month police investigation into the club 's affairs . |
| 5 | In November 1990 the government removed the power of arrest from the military police following the August murder of a senior police chief who was investigating army officers thought to be involved in criminal activities . |
| 6 | In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question . |
| 7 | The PSI report is the most detailed study of a British police force yet produced , and Section Four of the report , entitled ‘ The police and people in London ’ , examines the relationship between the police and the public in some depth . |
| 8 | It also examines a recent case study of a British police operation which exemplifies current trends . |
| 9 | By July 21 another 14 people had taken refuge in the Spanish embassy , with Madrid voicing concern at the ease of their entry despite a tight police cordon ( which now also surrounded the Canadian and West German embassies ) . |
| 10 | Upper-class objectors worried about traditional civil liberties , central government encroachment on the delicate network of power relations in local parishes , and the expense of a public police . |
| 11 | Such individuals may wait many weeks on remand in a prison hospital wing , sometimes even in a cell in a local police station , before they are assessed by the local service . |
| 12 | Both of the Deanses have been charged with fraud in a continuing police investigation into the affairs of the club . |
| 13 | and it can not produce an alternative to a defective police case . |
| 14 | I 'm part of a major police operation . |
| 15 | In reality , road-blocking was part of a broad police strategy , decided upon at a high level , aimed at preventing ‘ flying pickets ’ travelling from county to county lending support to striking miners . |
| 16 | In Moss v. McLachlan for example , the setting up of road blocks , etc. , was clearly part of a coordinated police strategy , not wholly governed by the decisions of the policeman on the spot ( although , as the quote from Moss v. McLachlan illustrates , it was the assessment of the senior police officers present that was being made the subject of review ) . |
| 17 | The sheriff 's reply sounded clearly in the hushed corridor , impressing the assembled kids and seeming to confirm Grant 's claim to be part of an official police operation — if any needed convincing after seeing one of the feared Apostles being dragged unconscious into an empty cubicle . |
| 18 | Raphael Samuels has also reported an instance of a suspected police informer in the East End who was visited by a mob who expressed their displeasure by burning effigies . |
| 19 | 1987 ; Reiner 1985 ; for an earlier and related argument see van Maanen 1973 , 1975 ) , and thus to the existence of a generalized police occupational culture . |
| 20 | This fear of the mob has continued to haunt the executive , who saw that control could best be determined by the installation of a professional police organization formulated on strict hierarchic , semi-militaristic lines , and possessed of discipline , obedience , and loyalty . |
| 21 | All day long at the Janata Dal officers in Amethi yesterday , Mr Jain and his supporters scrambled to update the list of party workers and activists who were beaten up by Congress I supporters — many of them in the presence of a senior police officer . |
| 22 | Could it be a coincidence that this huge increase came after the formation of a new police policy designed to encourage victims of violence to report ? |
| 23 | The Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel announced on Nov. 8 the formation of a new police unit which would have the specific task of stabilizing and controlling political unrest . |
| 24 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 25 | This replaced the jacket with a windcheater and the kepi with a Chicago-style police cap . |
| 26 | Two off-duty prison officers who were also in the minibus were beaten up and then released , but three others who escaped claimed that they had been unable to get help from a nearby police and Army checkpoint . |
| 27 | As we examine the structure of the police in the 1990s , I hope that we shall see the need for a national police agency to deal with national and international crime , while preserving the important links through the local constabularies , because it is through the local police links with the public that crime is prevented . |
| 28 | At the other extreme , they can not long do the job of a local police force . |
| 29 | Thompson ( 1980 ) has warned of the potential danger of a strong police autocracy , conscious , no doubt , of the slim line which exists between the democratic use of power and its subversion by a more centralized totalitarianism . |
| 30 | It is the beginning of the search for a confession rather than the conclusion of a well-managed police operation . |