Example sentences of "[pron] [art] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , do n't tell me the police are looking for a getaway sleigh . |
| 2 | ‘ Give me the police , ’ he said . |
| 3 | There are the honest and decent people of Easton , and then the ‘ gougers ’ , ‘ mouths ’ , and other trouble-makers , with whom the police have as problematic a relationship as do all police forces with miscreants . |
| 4 | Mrs Mohammed-Holgate was the temporary lodger whom the police arrested when , many months after the burglary , the original owner of the valuables thought that she recognized her from the description given by the shop owner of the person from whom she had bought the jewellery . |
| 5 | This means that , of those for whom the police had indicated an objection to bail , some 82 per cent . |
| 6 | They were in the middle of the case , working in a building where bloodstained clothing had been found , and where two people whom the police had questioned about a missing boy had more than passing contact , yet they knew less than anyone . |
| 7 | ‘ You can tell them the police were n't coming for you or Miles . ’ |
| 8 | I suspect Greenhill was referring specifically to a dearth in the cultural analysis of policing , while his use of the duality of ‘ sides ’ reveals another parallel binary to that of ‘ cops and robbers ’ , with the police and sociology arraigned against each other in yet another of the wars which the police wage against those who defile the sanctity of their definition of the concept of order . |
| 9 | Smith ( ibid. 157 ) also touches on the crucial feeling of potentiality which the university experience can produce in the individual , but which the police are generally unable to incorporate . |
| 10 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 11 | As Reiner ( 1980 ) suggested , the riot gear in which the police are increasingly seen , with shields , visored helmets , knee-length boots , and flame-proof overalls , enhances their avenging appearance . |
| 12 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 13 | Even so , the unpleasantness of these duties arises less from contact with things which the police consider either literally or metaphorically unclean ( such as decomposed bodies and the ‘ dregs and scum of society ’ ) , and more from the risk the police run of displaying emotion . |
| 14 | But there also appears to be what Phillipson , drawing on Cicourel , would call ‘ basic interpretative rules ’ ( Phillipson 1972 : 148 ) , which the police employ when making practical decisions of this sort : the reasonableness of the offender 's excuse ( Ericson 1982 : 147 ) , and whether or not offenders display deference ( Black 1970 : 1101 ; Dix and Layzell 1983 : 73 ; Sykes and Clark 1975 ) . |
| 15 | An orientation towards customers ’ needs and rights is becoming a prevailing ethos in society which the police can not ignore . ’ |
| 16 | The Commissioner , Sir Peter Imbert , has stated that the police must now be ready to share knowledge and power : to respond to local authorities and other organisations with an ‘ unswerving commitment to communication and consultation , within which the police and the community are equal partners . ’ |
| 17 | In 1978 a package of obscene printed matter was found on a bus ; it was addressed to a ‘ Mr Henderson ’ at a flat in Notting Hill , which the police then raided and found to belong to Hayman . |
| 18 | He knew that Wells had gone to the police and , in a public-spirited way , had volunteered a written statement that was taken down by the acting Sergeant , yet a statement which the police had not presented . |
| 19 | A Paisleyite rally in the Guildhall , and the DCAC rally to greet the marchers , led to serious rioting , and in the aftermath there were ugly incidents in which the police used violent and provocative tactics . |
| 20 | The issue of drugs provided an everyday image , already a national issue through saturation media coverage and public debate , around which the police , the Home Office , and other institutions could depoliticize the riots . |
| 21 | There is no conclusive schedule of offences to which the police and the suspect can refer . |
| 22 | A Home Office Research Study published in 1989 found that in the 111 cases in the survey which the police judged to involve serious arrestable offences , the suspect was detained over twenty-four and under thirty-six hours in 44 of them . |
| 23 | In 1972 the Criminal Law Revision Committee had been particularly exercised by the fear that silent suspects could ‘ ambush ’ the prosecution with evidence at their trial which they did not mention during questioning and which the police now had no time independently to verify . |
| 24 | The issue becomes especially important where , as a result of questioning , and without the benefit of the correct conditions or the advice from the solicitor , access to whom has been wrongly denied , the suspect makes a damaging confession which the police later try to rely upon at the trial in order to secure a conviction . |
| 25 | Weeks later at his trial such a person not infrequently produces an explanation of , or a defence to , the charge the truthfulness of which the police have had no chance to check . |
| 26 | Beyond this bland assertion , there was no further scrutiny of the way in which the police had acted . |
| 27 | A rally in Hyde Park on 6 June 1982 drew a crowd which the police estimated at 115,000 ( the Department of the Environment banned the playing of music at the demonstration ) . |
| 28 | The failure of the strikers to achieve their aims was the result of a variety of factors , but to the fore amongst these was the way in which the police and the law were employed against them . |
| 29 | The practical reality of modern police organization and its response bears absolutely no relation to the rather quaint legal structure within which the police are supposed to be contained . |
| 30 | This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports . |