Example sentences of "[noun] to police the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both conventional , terrestrial over-the-air broadcasting and , more broadly , in telecommunications , the state monopoly was grounded in legislation extending back to 1837 ; the need to police the air-waves and the limited capacity of the spectrum were used in its justification . |
| 2 | After a tip-off to police the baby was recovered and he was reunited with his mother at a West Midlands hospital four hours after he was taken . |
| 3 | It seems clear that the Commission needs more staff and more powers to police the 1992 legislation successfully , and the ECJ may require increased powers to ensure that failure to comply with Community law leads to punishment sufficient to deter countries and companies from breaking the laws on free movement . |
| 4 | HER Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution will receive the necessary resources to police the controls in the forthcoming green bill , the Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , said yesterday . |
| 5 | The big question mark over it is whether there is the political will in Whitehall to keep Mr Patten 's pledge to provide the resources to police the environment . |
| 6 | Packs roam everywhere at will and the few towns have not ‘ Wares to police the whole countryside , so the farmers and herders are mostly left to fend for themselves and , as I said , the hunters are all but ruined . |
| 7 | Popular permissiveness was reflected in jury verdicts , and the repeal of obscenity laws in several European countries made it impossible for the authorities to police the incoming tide of eroticism . |
| 8 | The neutral factions created a 1,000-strong force drawn from the provinces of Kabul , Logar , Wardak , Nangarhar and Parwan to police the truce in Kabul 's southern and eastern suburbs . |
| 9 | With no regulation of the industry , there is no way to police the cowboy end of the market , which the experts say is now well represented . |
| 10 | ‘ They have been hired in droves to police the lower city . ’ |