Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] police " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four out of every five problem drug users were found to be opioid users , the only other salient group being cannabis users , the majority of whom were known only through police arrests for possession ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 2 | For him , it was gut feeling every time ; instinct from of over twenty years ’ experience — not only of police work , but of people and their ways . |
| 3 | The government tended to intervene swiftly with police and troops when major plants or the railway system were disrupted . |
| 4 | The extent to which these crimes are known and recorded will depend almost entirely on police activity and efficiency . |
| 5 | Twenty years of police service had convinced him that Murphy 's law applied especially to police operations — no matter how meticulously they were planned , if it were remotely possible for something to fuck up , then it would ! |
| 6 | The computer-enhanced images were put together by police artists with help from Peter Sheldon , 18 , who was with his brother when he was stabbed to death . |
| 7 | Mr Crosby wanted to take them back on the pitch but was prevented from doing so by police , who had acted quickly to prevent a pitch invasion when Byrne headed Sunderland into a 35th-minute lead . |
| 8 | Policies that promote welfare are explained in terms of social control ; they are measures to combat disorder and crime just like police and penal policies , measures to legitimize and prop up the capitalist system . |
| 9 | In recent years this older element seems to have become more prominent ; they are often smartly dressed and travel to games by car or on scheduled train services away from police surveillance , organized in gangs with names like the Inter-City Firm , the Main Line Service Crew , or the Anti-Personnel Firm . |
| 10 | The power to inflict this punishment was taken away from police courts , and district courts were limited to ordering a total of twenty-five lashes . |
| 11 | Press reaction and the Criminal Bar were generally hostile , fed by heightened fears of jury nobbling emanating largely from police circles . |
| 12 | As the Shah arrived at the White House to be officially welcomed by President Carter , the two groups shouted abuse at each other just beyond police railings . |
| 13 | Turning to the consumer 's view of these conditions , a customer who buys from a " never knowingly undersold " ( or , indeed , any ) source presumably would benefit from occasionally looking elsewhere to police the claim ( though there is a free-rider problem here — if the price reduction becomes general once any one consumer has complained , why not let someone else do it ? ) . |
| 14 | The prosecuting barrister Richard Q C described how the two boys were interviewed separately by police . |
| 15 | About 60 Kurdish refugees tried to mount a demonstration in Terminal 2 but were led away by police who said it was illegal under airport by-laws . |
| 16 | They jumped up in succession to interrupt Jiang , shouting ‘ Long live democracy ! ’ and ‘ Down with dictatorship ! ’ before being led away by police . |
| 17 | Dave was led away by police who arrested then released him without a formal charge . |
| 18 | UNBOWED : Dave , led away by police , said later : ‘ I made my point ’ |
| 19 | As Colin French was taken away by police animal rights supporters in the public gallery began to cheer and clap . |
| 20 | Long queues had formed before the car was towed away by police . |
| 21 | During the official opening ceremony one van driver who arrived at 10.35am was turned away by police and vowed angrily he would return to his warehouse for instructions . |
| 22 | The pickets were dragged away by police but others quickly took their places , and scuffles broke out as strikers attempted to rescue some of those arrested . |
| 23 | She wished she knew more about police procedures . |
| 24 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 25 | But for all those aspects of your book that arise directly from police activity you will indeed have to find out what are the real-life facts . |
| 26 | Conservative councils , by contrast , spent more on police than Labour . |
| 27 | A MINICAB driver and a woman were arrested yesterday by police probing a rape and kidnap . |
| 28 | It follows two raids yesterday by police investigating a fraud at Oxford City Council . |
| 29 | The unusual appeal was made yesterday by police who have reopened the case of Moira Anderson , 12 , who vanished without trace in a snow storm while running an errand for her grandmother on 23 February , 1957 . |
| 30 | The defendants were spotted walking back home by police a short while later . |