Example sentences of "the police [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much more closely concerned with how closely the police adhere to the kind of standards the public expects from any large organisation , including promptness , a sympathetic attitude which indicates individual attention , some conspicuous activity and clear information about what will happen next . ’ |
| 2 | Our presumption has been that the police adhere to them . |
| 3 | ‘ Half the police come from there . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The police come in the yard terday , ’ he said suddenly . |
| 5 | The police account for over a third of these specific grants . |
| 6 | In rural areas the police tend to be more integrated with the community . |
| 7 | In terms of their relations with the wider public , the police tend to be a particularly segregated group in society . |
| 8 | ‘ The police know for a fact that it was started deliberately . ’ |
| 9 | Quite often , the police ask for a remand to give them time to make further enquiries , assemble their evidence and so on . |
| 10 | He was making out the folder for the new case , meticulously transferring details from the police form to the file . |
| 11 | If the police get to him first , he 'll be put away for life . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So , ’ he said to him , ‘ this is the way that the police go about their business . |
| 13 | Since the police visit to John Macnab on 4 September 1939 , the British authorities knew that William Joyce was in Germany . |
| 14 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |
| 15 | ‘ We hope and pray that young men will take very seriously the police campaign with the media for an end to the knife-carrying cult . |
| 16 | Social work inclination to try to verify the occurrence of sexual abuse was often at variance with the police desire to be involved as early as possible in the investigation of a case . |
| 17 | Your main activity will be supplying the technology for the network of 16,000 radios and 100 channels the police use for communication ; this currently involves a re-equipment programme to meet new frequency allocations . |
| 18 | When investigating offences in Jamaica the police take from potential witnesses written statements which are not , however , used for the purpose of committing accused persons for trial . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's in the police pound in Penton Street , ’ he replied even leveller and with considerably more alliteration . |
| 20 | Let us think of the cost that the police incur on all our behalfs by attending accidents . |
| 21 | The police appear before the court as witnesses , of course , in many cases , but their status before the court is just like any other erm witness and they have no greater standing before the court , and their evidence is judged by Magistrates on the same basis as that of any other witness . |
| 22 | That policy means that the police identify with the local community that they serve . |
| 23 | In some cases the police need to be informed that a person is absent without leave , although no request is made for their help . |
| 24 | Equally I believe that local communities too must feel that the police are to them if they are to give the positive help which the police need to successfully detect and prosecute the criminals who prey on them . |
| 25 | The police file on the case will remain open , while the evidence is re-examined . |
| 26 | In the meantime the police file on the case will remain open . |
| 27 | The police file on distraction burglaries in Gloucestershire is bulging — twenty cases in the last month alone , with an increase when schools broke up . |
| 28 | Almost all the murders that the police solve in real life are either dealt with in a matter of hours ( the husband done it with the kitchen knife ) or as a result of long , long , tedious inquiries , mostly house-to-house , the taking of fingerprints and the elimination of perhaps thousands of marginal suspects . |
| 29 | Panorama on the Cardiff Three revealed the irregularities of the police approach to the murder investigation . |
| 30 | you 've just bought a car or you 've got a car you can take it and the police look over it to see if it 's alright . |