Example sentences of "be [adv] a police [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not a police officer . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . |
| 4 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 5 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |
| 6 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 7 | Yeah , I , I could say well that 's not a police issue and then forget about it but that 's not really a good response , ? |
| 8 | So the emphasis now is more on the people themselves , basically Neighbourhood Watch is your scheme , it 's not a police thing , we support it , we pay for the hall tonight , we pay for the signs for the street and we give you all the literature free , but it is your scheme and it 's how you want it to be . |
| 9 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 10 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
| 11 | The man was evidently a police officer , off duty . |