Example sentences of "[verb] the police " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest posters advertise the police ball . |
| 2 | I also met the police station er Sergeant and and after discussing further the matters with him erm then I was happy an armed operation was er was necessary . |
| 3 | This extremely perceptive analysis of the institutional mind fits the police world like a glove , and recent elaborations in policing , along with its growth in the mainstream of the daily social process , supports Douglas 's contention ( ibid. ) that an institution which is dependent upon authority can only demand more of the same . |
| 4 | UNO 's platform , announced early in September , included plans to expand the market economy , to extend social freedoms and guarantees including trade union freedoms , to revise the Constitution to provide for a strict separation of the state , the Army and the ruling party , to abolish compulsory military service , to reduce radically the size of the armed forces , to reorganize the police under civil authority and to grant an amnesty for political prisoners . |
| 5 | Before the Act , section 5 of the 1936 Act was supplemented by a miscellany of powers to be found in local legislation , which empowered the police to deal with minor nuisances and acts of hooliganism . |
| 6 | If there is insufficient time to go to court the police may be asked to exercise their powers of protection under s46 of the Act to prevent a child 's removal ( see Chapter 13 , 1 ) . |
| 7 | PC Whitehouse , 24 , had felt the car was allowing the police car to draw close . |
| 8 | Which in turn brings us to the most remarkable fact of all , namely that so far from corroborating the police 's recent claims , the witnesses they located and interviewed at the time signally failed to mention any suspicious behaviour whatsoever . |
| 9 | In Piddington v. Bates the power was employed to enable the police to station no more than two pickets at the entrance to a factory . |
| 10 | A telephone was hoisted through the bedroom window to enable the police to maintain contact and meet requests for food and cigarettes . |
| 11 | Witnesses to this crime , the time-travellers , already having seen DN6 's effects on the garden 's insect population , must try to alert the Police . |
| 12 | After contacting the police , a heartbroken Dorothy returned home to find that someone had pushed the wallet , with the £400 inside , through her letter box . |
| 13 | Besides this , we asked about contacting the police for help . |
| 14 | Upon contacting the police station , that solicitor was told that C did not want a solicitor . |
| 15 | And again residents around here , contacting the police , being very concerned about their safety etcetera . |
| 16 | Charlotte suggested contacting the police , but Ursula would not hear of it . |
| 17 | ‘ I have to signal the police at regular intervals that I 'm OK , ’ she continued lying . |
| 18 | For instance , much violence in the family now involves the police and so gets recorded as violent crime . |
| 19 | We passed the police sentry who grunted a sleepy greeting . |
| 20 | Half an hour later Julia agreed the police should not be told about the number plate until Tuesday . |
| 21 | But he agreed the police could have given them a few day 's notice of the situation . |
| 22 | I was rather late back , when I got back I heard a knock on my bedroom door and she said it 's Miss and er I said , oh come in , I undid the door and she came in and er and so she said to me er , I just had a telephone message from Peel er to say that you have been subpoenaed to go the Police Court next Thursday and I said what a day out of my holiday and she said , well I 'm sorry but you 'll have to go . |
| 23 | In most of the areas in which riots occurred there had been a breakdown in community/police relations ; the public distrusted the police and they had no confidence in the police complaints machinery . |
| 24 | The Divisional Court , and the majority of their lordships in the House of Lords , were struck with what might be thought to be the obvious purpose of the Act , which was clearly passed with a view to assisting the police in the detection and prevention of crime . |
| 25 | ‘ Peter Brooke should also , ’ he writes , ‘ persuade the Chairman and Chief Executive ( of Channel 4 ) that , even though it may cause them some embarrassment , it is in their interests that they commit themselves fully to telling the public the truth and to assisting the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions . ’ |
| 26 | We have given the police stronger powers to deal with racial hatred . |
| 27 | A PASSER-BY paid £4 to take part in a police video identification parade of a robbery was given the police photographer 's expensive leather jacket to wear and asked to jog down some steps and round a corner . |
| 28 | 507 , which involved the identification of the driver of a car , counsel submitted that the trial judge should have granted his application to see the statement of the Crown witness who had given the police a description of the driver . |
| 29 | ‘ We have now given the police and the courts powers , it is up to them to use them . ’ |
| 30 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |