Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a police " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she , too , was driven at very high speed to a police station on mainland Orkney for interrogation . |
| 2 | You hitchhiking in my rucksack all the way up here without me knowing and then doing a perfect impression of a police loud hailer . ’ |
| 3 | We have seen charts that describe the organisational chart of a police authority and yet miss off the lowly police constable . |
| 4 | Even the screeching rasp of a police hover forcing its slow way upstream can scarcely cut the din . |
| 5 | Danny Morrison , 38 , the former publicity director of Sinn Féin , was sentenced in Belfast on May 9 to eight years in prison for his part in the false imprisonment of a police informer , but was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Alexander " Sandy " Lynch , who had been held and interrogated by the IRA 's security department for two days in January 1990 ; seven others were given prison sentences of up to 12 years for false imprisonment in connection with this and other cases . |
| 6 | An inquiry was authorised to look into these incidents , but when its chairperson , John Stalker , the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police , was suddenly removed over allegations about his previous conduct as a police officer , it led to speculation that a cover-up was taking place to avoid implicating senior RUC officers in covert and probably illegal operations ( ibid.:70 ) . |
| 7 | One , a twenty five year old woman , appeared before magistrates in Dursley this afternoon charged with attempted grevious bodily harm on a police seargeant . |
| 8 | Would that little demo have involved a slight incident with a police horse ? ’ |
| 9 | A Renaissance had last happened in the days of the ‘ Glasgow Boys ’ and the other artists , architects and the like at the turn of the 20th century , and one of the stars of that re-birth of style and innovation , was the late , great son of a police superintendent , Charles Rennie Mackintosh . |
| 10 | from somewhere across the city came the lonely scream of a police car . |
| 11 | The affair thus highlights the unreality of the common-law rule which continues to concentrate on the independent judgment of a police officer who is in fact simply obeying instructions which are issued as part of a general policy not necessarily susceptible of being influenced by the specific facts of particular cases . |
| 12 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |
| 13 | On his way round , via the Operations Room , he hears about the armed escort vehicles in hot pursuit of a police Hotspur Land-Rover , which in turn is giving chase to an orange Lada for minor motoring offences . |
| 14 | I reach that conclusion , I hope , having properly considered the pros and cons of the situation ; the fact that he has this particular advantage as a police officer in marshalling evidence ; considering the issues . |
| 15 | I reach that conclusion , I hope , having properly considered the pros and cons of the situation : the fact that he has this particular advantage as a police officer in marshalling evidence ; considering the issues . |
| 16 | It might not induce a particular favour from a police constable but then , as now , it ensured a level of co-operation . |
| 17 | A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was killed yesterday when the stolen high performance car she was driving somersaulted and crossed a dual carriageway during a police chase . |
| 18 | Dealing with incidents like this is an all too common occurence for a police officer . |
| 19 | Dealing with incidents like this is an all too common occurence for a police officer . |
| 20 | On Sept. 18 security forces claimed to have killed 70 guerrillas as they staged an abortive attack on a police garrison to free prisoners held in the El Sepa prison colony situated in Loreto department in the north-east Amazonian region . |
| 21 | I had a curious brush with the law myself once when I was sent by my employer to attend a day seminar on drugs to be given at the local university by a police sergeant . |
| 22 | Two exhaustive and systematic visual searches and a subsequent check by a police ‘ sniffer ’ dog failed to identify any suspicious object or sign of unauthorised activity . |