Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have given the police stronger powers to deal with racial hatred . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We have now given the police and the courts powers , it is up to them to use them . ’ |
| 5 | Fifteen years ago , when Brian and Scarlet had just bought the house next door to Constance , she had regarded the police as her worst enemy , but things had changed . |
| 6 | Anything other than an uncritical acceptance is a direct challenge to the idea of the rule of law which has sustained the police since their inception and which argues that the replication of a known system of order is the best means of containing those who need to be controlled . |
| 7 | in the local press joked that if he had done all the write-up said then he must have joined the police when he , was about 7 ! |
| 8 | So , as a kind of protest against his parents ' values , he had joined the police as a constable . |
| 9 | M. B. In those days , the police were almost like an élite force because if you joined , people would say : ‘ He 's joined the police . |
| 10 | Sue Best joined the police force immediately after graduating in Biological Sciences from Birmingham in 1975 . |
| 11 | Swindon Town have joined the police in condemning the irresponsible behaviour of a small minority of fans . |
| 12 | I should have rang the police straightaway , should n't I ? |
| 13 | She 'd rang the police and they had n't heard of any . |
| 14 | Will he also ask the manufacturers to consider the possibility of installing devices to enable stolen cars to be traced , so that if a terrorist murder is committed the police can get on the track quickly ? |
| 15 | Uncle Vernon had telephoned the police on more than one occasion . |
| 16 | The court was told that Gilchrist was arrested at a house in Pershore after he himself had telephoned the police . |
| 17 | Mr Gibson had telephoned the police . |
| 18 | He had expected the police to have reappeared . |
| 19 | On March 19 , 100 federal police agents occupied the police headquarters in the north-western city of Tucumán demanding the reinstatement of 30 colleagues dismissed in the government cutbacks , and increased salaries . |
| 20 | We had no phone in those days , otherwise she would have rung the police . |
| 21 | ‘ I should have rung the police and reported a horse on the loose on a public highway in the middle of the night . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 've rung the police , Father ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've rung the police . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've rung the police , but nothing yet , I 'm afraid . |
| 25 | He has blamed the police for causing the May Day riot , siding with the Front . |
| 26 | In Ica ( the venue for the Group of Eight presidential summit which took place on Oct. 11-12 — see p. 36973 ) Sendero Luminoso carried out several bomb attacks and killed the wife of a university rector on Oct. 1-2 , and also attacked a police post in the neighbouring town of Palpa , killing eight and wounding 13 . |
| 27 | In earlier incidents , OMON units on Jan. 14 had briefly occupied a police station in Riga , and had tried to remove two of the barricades which had been put up by Latvians on main roads , bridges and around public buildings in response to events in Vilnius . |
| 28 | According to sources in N'Djamena , a senior Interior Ministry Official had instructed the police to open fire if Faky Ali Ahmat resisted arrest . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , Daddy 's phoned the police , and they 're going to question the gipsies , so we must wait patiently until we hear from them , ’ said her mummy . |
| 30 | In his efforts to surrender to justice Jim , 46 , had PHONED the police to tell them where he was . |