Example sentences of "the police [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if such a classificatory system is a major feature of the way the police control their fellow citizens , then it seems essential it should be identified , assessed , and described . |
| 2 | Let the police earn their bloody money for once . |
| 3 | On this occasion … the police saw their legal-democratic duty quite clearly : in their terms , it was to maintain the rights of all parties to the dispute — those of Grunwick 's boss to continue production with his remaining labour force , of pedestrians and road-users to ‘ perambulate freely ’ , of the pickets to peacefully make their protest , and of the community as a whole to be protected from scenes of public disorder . |
| 4 | The Rt Rev Peter Ball was arrested but later released on bail without charge for the police to continue their inquiries . |
| 5 | Indeed , the old common law was not in the least interested in how the police got their evidence ; all that mattered was its probative value . |
| 6 | So far as the attitude to his obstruction is concerned , the essence is that it must be shown that the defendant has deliberately brought about the state of affairs that makes it more difficult for the police to do their duties , and is aware that he has done so . |
| 7 | While the police made their arrests and dozens of rats from the nearby city dump — where the squatters scavenge to survive — ran in and out of the shacks , the community sang Nkosi Sikelile l'Afrika and waved placards against the Group Areas act . |
| 8 | But the police continued their enquiries into the activities of the PIE , and in 1980 two other members of the group were brought to trial at the Old Bailey . |
| 9 | The boys are furious when the police break their own rules by arresting them for public order offences while they are fighting on their home ground . |
| 10 | Well the first thing is to make sure that the magistrates and the police use their licencing powers to crack down on illegal drinking , that is to say under age drinking , and to crack down on unruly pubs and the hours that discos are open and that 's beginning to happen . |
| 11 | In the meantime Congress , we call upon the police to enforce their powers on cycles , cyclists riding without lights during the hours of darkness . |
| 12 | We 've given them three hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds of extra funding , which we could legitimately have taken away as , particularly in the way that it was done , and as I understand it they er , revealed their V I P protection two months early to the Home Office , and therefore cut our S S A by a substantial amount , and I would even perhaps start that as a , as I could , as a series of criticisms about the way the police maintain their budget , and about the way that they have responded . |
| 13 | This view puts the dynamic of police racism in the norms and values through which the police define their roles and legitimate their activities . |
| 14 | When 200,000 demonstrators marched through Budapest on 23 October and the imprisoned leader , Imre Nagy , was swept to power , the Army refused to act against the demonstrators and the police handed their batons to the students . |
| 15 | There is no general legal duty to cooperate with the police to assist their investigations . |
| 16 | After an hour , and for no comprehensible reason , the police removed their cordon . |
| 17 | The open-ended nature of the section is an invitation to the police to abuse their discretion in response to which there are no effective safeguards . |
| 18 | The police say their softly softly approach seems to be working . |
| 19 | The police say their only lead is a vague description of a man seen running from the alley after the shooting . |
| 20 | PRISONS , long considered to be academies of crime , may become academies of football if the police continue their ridiculous persecution of managers . |
| 21 | It would be perfectly reasonable for the police to check their address and details such as car ownership on the computer . |
| 22 | Rather than having the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 23 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 24 | The police earned their keep with arrests 20 per cent up at 5,006 , but figures highlighted a varying police approach . |
| 25 | This explains Gandhi 's consternation on hearing that the people of a village near Bettiah had run away while the police raided their houses looting property and assaulting women . |
| 26 | As Lloyd points out , ‘ In effect it is now up to the police to exercise their political judgement about our freedom to demonstrate ’ ( 1989:260 ) . |