Example sentences of "police [vb base] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But police stress that they do n't have any more money to spend on policing the villages . |
| 2 | The police say that they 've had reports of sightings of Sir Roy around London . |
| 3 | The police say that they reacted as fast as they could , but it would have been unsafe to try and stop the party . |
| 4 | Gloucestershire police say that they 're unlikely to prosecute the woman as they have no means of making her return to England to face charges . |
| 5 | The police say that they do monitor car boot sales , but they believe the vast majority of people using car boot sales are honest . |
| 6 | Police say that one well known UFF figure is regularly driving through nationalist parts of North and West Belfast despite the real risk to his own life . |
| 7 | The police say that there is no suggestion that it was the result of terrorism ; the belief rather is that it was caused by building works being carried out as part of the routine modernisation of the royal residences . |
| 8 | As our survey indicates the policy varies across the Province — but whatever security is employed the police say that there is no such thing as total security . |
| 9 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 10 | Police say that he was kicked and punched by four people and struck about the head with a wooden object . |
| 11 | ‘ The English police report that Basil went to Paris on the midnight train on the ninth of November , but the French police say that he never arrived in Paris at all . |
| 12 | I have sent for you this morning , Jones , because I find on looking up your record of attendances at police court that you have had neither a charge nor a summons during the last three years . |
| 13 | Lisa Benner — police believe that her body has been washed up on a beach in Kent |
| 14 | Since breaches of these norms can lead to an acquittal , there is a strong temptation to conceal breaches , especially when the police believe that they have strong evidence of guilt . |
| 15 | All these reviews may be postponed if the police decide that they are ‘ not practicable ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ When I got home last night and found the yard door bolted I thought the old man had deliberately locked me out but the police reckon that whoever killed father was with him then — while I was banging on the door , trying to get in . ’ |
| 17 | Police warn that there could be more waiting to be opened tonight or still in the post . |
| 18 | We hope that it will never occur again , but if it does , may we have clear guidance so that those outside the House will know that if the police warn that it is unsafe to come into the House the Division either will or will not be extended ? |
| 19 | The assistance , however late in the day , gave Hewett a new lease of life ; he flew at Slatter , striking him so hard with his police stick that he split it in pieces and knocked him out . |