Example sentences of "arrest [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact of this decision is to give the police greater freedom to arrest in the public interest and correspondingly to devalue the liberty of the individual . |
| 2 | In a comparison between blocking and non-blocking strains of mice it was shown that the potential of embryos to arrest at the 2-cell stage is determined solely by the genotype of the egg and occurs irrespective of the paternal or embryonic contribution ( 18 ) . |
| 3 | Andropov added that if Khrushchev resisted , he would produce documents showing the latter 's signature on the warrants of many arrested during the 1935-37 purges . ’ |
| 4 | On Aug. 12 , however , the chairman of the League for the Defence of Human Rights said that more than 300 people had died and over 8,000 had been arrested during the recent disturbances . ) |
| 5 | In all more than 1,000 people were arrested during the electoral campaign . |
| 6 | Emotional maturation is arrested during the active phase of addictive disease and therefore the counsellor who is in recovery will need to have made up for this lost time for emotional development . |
| 7 | He 's supposed to be staying at a children 's home , but he spent last night in police cells after being arrested for the thirtieth time — for breaching bail conditions . |
| 8 | ‘ Tommy Cook , your are being arrested for the attempted murders of … ‘ |
| 9 | On Aug. 29 an amnesty was announced for all political prisoners , said by the authorities to number 66 ; of these 44 had been arrested after the inter-ethnic massacres of August 1988 , and the rest had been accused of a plot against the government in March 1989 . |
| 10 | They failed , however , to free the soldiers arrested after the failed coup of Sept. 26 [ see p. 39086 ] , including Abdallah 's sons , Cheikh and Abderamane |
| 11 | Turner was arrested after the first offence but released on bail and then carried out the second offence . |
| 12 | On Oct. 23 V. P. Singh ordered Advani to be arrested under the Internal Security Act to prevent him from entering Uttar Pradesh . |
| 13 | In mid-January the police said that they had arrested under the Internal Security Act a sixth man allegedly involved in a plot to take Sabah out of the Malaysian federation ; he was named as Vincent Chung , group manager of a company controlled by the Sabah Foundation . |
| 14 | Only one terrorist , Fawaz Yunis , has been arrested under the 1984 law and the FBI lured him into international waters to make the arrest . |
| 15 | The next day Ershad and his wife were formally arrested under the Special Powers Act , which allowed the authorities to detain them without charge for up to 120 days . |
| 16 | Petty was not considered active or dangerous enough to be arrested with the other Leveller leaders in late March 1649 , although he was later named as a leader of those who remained at large . |
| 17 | Two Egyptians had been arrested alongside the four Israelis and had been similarly accused of " collecting information about the country 's economic and political situation and some prominent Egyptian figures in order to supply this information to Israel " ( according to the Middle East News Agency of May 6 ) . |
| 18 | Khmara had been arrested inside the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 17 , 1990 , as a result of an incident during the October Revolution holiday on Nov. 7 when he and his co-defendants had been involved in a scuffle with an undercover KGB ( State Security ) officer in a pedestrian subway in Kiev . |
| 19 | Over 300 people , mainly ANC members , were arrested within the first week of the emergency . |
| 20 | Since Gorbachev came to power , thirty spies have been arrested in the Soviet Union and all but a few executed . |
| 21 | Fourteen officers , including Okar , and over 200 lower ranking soldiers were arrested in the immediate aftermath . |
| 22 | According to Interior Minister Khayreh Alaleh Hared , 68 people had been arrested in the early hours of Jan. 9 , as they were holding an illegal meeting at a local cemetery ; the attack on the barracks had taken place 90 minutes later , and the attackers had escaped , but the two incidents formed part of an attempt to destroy " the sovereignty , existence and unity of Djibouti and its economy " . |
| 23 | The men , who are claiming damages for false imprisonment , assault and malicious prosecution , were arrested in the early hours of the morning by officers of the Operational Support Division . |
| 24 | Mario Chiesa was arrested in the final week of February and accused of having used his position as director of a prestigious charitable institution in Milan , the Pio Albergo Trivulzio , an old people 's home , for profit to the tune of US$9,650,000 , partly by directing business towards Milan 's leading firm of undertakers , whose director was a friend and a fellow socialist activist . |
| 25 | Two brothers have been arrested in the Irish Republic in connection with the murder of a woman in a boarding house . |
| 26 | The two men were arrested in the Irish Republic . |
| 27 | Of the twelve men arrested in the original swoop in the Rathcoole district , five continued to be detained in Long Kesh . |
| 28 | Spy fever gripped the country and a couple seen sketching the Royal Albert Bridge were , as a result of information given by a boy scout to a sergeant of the Royal Scots , arrested in the nearby tea gardens and escorted to Devonport by the police . |
| 29 | The pair were charged with illegal entry the charge used against Britons Paul Ride , who was arrested in the same area last June , and Martin Wainwright , who cycled into Iraq from Turkey a few weeks earlier . |
| 30 | Víctor Polay Campos ( alias Commander Rolando ) , leader of the Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) , the second-largest guerrilla group after Sendero Luminoso , was arrested in the smart suburb of San Borja , Lima , on June 9 . |