Example sentences of "by the [adj] police [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the House is aware , these proposals are opposed by the entire police service of this country by the Police Federation , by the Police Superintendents Association and by the Association of Chief Police Officers . |
| 2 | At least I did n't get my photo taken by the zoom-lensed police photographer on the touchline ( at least I do n't think I did ) . |
| 3 | CND had planned a number of marches in London for that summer but they were affected by a ban on all public processions ( other than those traditionally held ) in the Metropolitan Police District which was imposed for a twenty-eight-day period by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , with the consent of the Home Secretary , under section 3 of the Public Order Act 1936 . |
| 4 | As an addendum , it might be worth saying something positive , following public statements by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , Sir David McNee , about the need for improved discipline in schools and the high proportion of offences committed by 10–16 year old children . |
| 5 | Similarly , the use of plastic bullets was authorised by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , Sir Kenneth Newman , during the Broadwater Farm disturbance of 1985 . |
| 6 | This has tended to be focussed on Afro-Caribbeans ( hereinafter called Blacks ) and considerable publicity has been given in the press to their over-representation in the arrest statistics collected by the Metropolitan Police District ( M.P.D. i.e. London ) . |
| 7 | With their papers impounded by the local police chief , they are persuaded to bomb the Niarunas . |
| 8 | The boy , subject of national publicity since being described last week by the local police chief ‘ a very persistent offender who is a thorn in the sides of me and my officers ’ , was led into court handcuffed to a policeman . |
| 9 | John himself was warned by the local Police Inspector not to speak at the square again or he would be arrested for speaking against the national interest . |
| 10 | They were drastically reduced in 1985–86 because of overtime cuts forced upon the police by the local police authority as one of the ways of responding to the budgetary impact of rate capping . |
| 11 | This may be done either in advance , or by the senior police officer on the spot where the procession is in progress . |
| 12 | The banning procedure has a considerable political input , in the sense that both the district council and the Home Secretary act as controllers of the decision taken by the senior police officer . |
| 13 | But The People can reveal that MI5 officers , as a matter of course , scan a detailed log kept by the Royal police bodyguard at their HQ in Buckingham Palace . |
| 14 | The Johannesburg Sunday Times had meanwhile disclosed on Feb. 10 that one of the co-accused who had been missing the day the trial opened , Katiza Cebekhulu , had actually been seen , and duly photographed by the newspaper , among the crowd on the Supreme Court steps , apparently unconcerned by the heavy police presence . |