Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [art] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | This found not only a generally high level of support for the police , but that this spread throughout the class structure ( indeed was marginally higher in the working class ) . |
| 2 | Of course for the police the one one score line is not as important as these figures , eighteen arrests and thirteen ejections from the ground . |
| 3 | One of the more alarming aspects of these Bank Holiday disturbances was that they highlighted fierce traditions of resistance to the police in working-class neighbourhoods , so that not uncommonly policemen attempting to make street arrests would be set upon by large crowds — sometimes numbering two or three hundred people — shouting ‘ Rescue ! |
| 4 | It found that the prohibition of public meetings for political purposes , the requirement of permission from the police authority to hold such meetings in private and the authorisation of the military authority for the holding of indoor lectures were not consistent with Article 11 . |
| 5 | Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services . |
| 6 | After a lot of confusion at the police station I was brought in . |
| 7 | Miller 's involvement seemed to mark a change of gear in the police 's approach to the case . |
| 8 | A strategy of re-investigation by the police itself might not , at least at first , provide an invincible check on mistakes . |
| 9 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 10 | There was a further link with editors , not such a happy one , for false reports and rumours were constantly appearing , and what seemed to be a campaign of vilification of the police . |
| 11 | Failure to obey any instructions he or she might issue in this context may amount to the statutory offence of obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty , for which the sentence can be either imprisonment or a substantial fine . |
| 12 | In due course , she was charged with and convicted of obstruction of a police constable in the execution of his duty . |
| 13 | The police treated those who refused to turn back as being vulnerable to the charge of obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty , contrary to section 51(3) of the Police Act 1964 . |
| 14 | So lets be quite clear that there is still a great deal of slack in the police budget , whi money that could be used to er , put policemen on the beat . |
| 15 | Branson , who had been attempting to play the role of diplomat with the police , was not arrested . |
| 16 | In relating these results to our measures of attitude to the police we found those who had been stopped etc. , had a less favourable attitude to the police on all three measures . |
| 17 | Mr Keith Vaz , a Labour member of the committee said : ‘ There is still a lack of confidence in the police force among black and Asian people . |
| 18 | It is further worth noting that the lack of confidence in the police by black people is now reaching other parts of the criminal justice system , notably the courts . |
| 19 | But the increase in crime became a subject of hot debate when the area 's MP Derek Foster said people were expressing a loss of confidence in the police . |
| 20 | A subsequent debate on the same issue in March 1982 was also full of references to the experience of 1981 , the impact of street violence , crime , decaying urban conditions , the breakdown of consent between the police and many local communities , and the spectre of ‘ more violence to come ’ if changes in both policing tactics and social policy were not swiftly introduced ( Hansard , vol. 20 , 25 March 1982 : cols. 1107–81 ) . |
| 21 | However , ‘ I invite nobody into my soul ’ he declares , as if to banish the exhibitionist thought.44 And then if the search for suffering is allowed to eclipse the rest , we are back with Marmeladov squinnying into the bottom of his vodka jug ; whereas Stavrogin saying he wants to forgive himself might be Raskolnikov pondering retrospectively , selfcritically , on his admission of guilt at the police station . |
| 22 | As soon as he was free — she gave a glance of distaste towards the police car discreetly parked in the farthest corner of the courtyard — Monsieur Bonard would proceed with their lesson . |
| 23 | As we saw in the last chapter , the operation of discretion by the police is a particular fascination in the sociology of policing , but discretion is often viewed narrowly in terms of law : whether the police apply or omit the letter of the law . |
| 24 | In dealing with drivers , domestic disputes , drunks and juveniles , whether or not informal cautions are delivered , or arrests made , depends a great deal more on the negotiation between police and citizen , and ultimately on the exercise of discretion by the police , than on any objective notion of the law . |
| 25 | It was during this phase of conflict between the police and black radicals that , |
| 26 | It was reported on April 11 , 1990 , that tapes of an interview held following the 1975 trial , between Gerard Conlon , one of the Four , and Peter ( now Sir Peter ) Imbert , now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , who was at the time of the trial a bomb squad superintendent , were becoming a source of conflict between the police and the defence lawyers at the judicial inquiry . |
| 27 | Far too often we hear of the politics of policing , and of criticism of the police as they fight crime and protect the public . |
| 28 | And it , would it be fair to say Mr that it is a form of control within the police force ? |
| 29 | Notions of ritual celebration can also be invoked to override the effect of a person 's lack of respect towards the police . |
| 30 | I think children had a considerable amount of respect for the police in those days . |