Example sentences of "police have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a government that appears consciously to thrive on discord , and which has no policy on crime other than the obviousness of its being evil , the central role of the police has been inevitable . |
| 2 | A long-term irritant to the police has been the ongoing allegation that some officers have been closely connected with freemasonry . |
| 3 | The constitutional position of the police has been explained clearly and concisely by David Regan in his pamphlet Are the Police under Control ? : |
| 4 | British Rail Transport Police has been running the anti-vandal and trespass trains in blackspots since the early 1970s . |
| 5 | British Rail Transport Police has been running the anti-vandal and trespass trains in blackspots since the early 1970s . |
| 6 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 7 | The police had been asked by the organizers of the vigil to provide protection after an incident earlier in the evening when about 200 suspicious-looking men appeared outside the house where the vigil was being held . |
| 8 | Chief Superintendent Ken Mackay , in charge of the operation , said police had been aware of the large number of City supporters planning to arrive from Friday . |
| 9 | Officials said four units of the national police had been assigned to the case , including two specialist terrorist squads . |
| 10 | While the police had been offered a rise of 9.25 per cent , ambulance staff , who earned only £10,000 after qualification , were being offered 6.5 per cent . |
| 11 | He explained briefly what had happened and added , untruthfully , that the Police had been friendly , helpful , and understanding . |
| 12 | In the case of the Ks , the SMG claimed the police had been slow to take statements and prepare cases , and that , inexplicably , weeks elapsed before anyone was charged with the December attack on Anoup K although there had been clear identification . |
| 13 | The assumption was that the police had been given enough information to pick up the terrorists quickly . |
| 14 | He reminded the House that the police had been given forty-eight hours notification of the proposed route : ‘ Honourable members on this side of the House who in this respect are charging him [ Paisley ] with gross civic and social irresponsibility must also charge the police with exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 15 | The police had been telephoned . |
| 16 | When he told Modi that the police had been to question him because his neighbour had hidden stolen goods in the wardrobe in Ehrenburg 's room , Modigliani merely smiled . |
| 17 | In all the negotiations for the march and the meeting the police had been co-operative . |
| 18 | For some unfathomable reason the Haute Police had been displeased , pointing out that his orders had simply been to keep the men under observation and report on their activities . |
| 19 | It appeared to some that somehow the police had been left to solve or to break the strike by impeding the exercise of the rights of persuasion and protest aimed at bringing out the miners who were still at work . |
| 20 | The police had been called and , following her description , a young man had been apprehended . |
| 21 | Police had been called to a domestic row at the house earlier . |
| 22 | The police had been excluded from prior knowledge of the arrests , but quickly built up an accurate picture . |
| 23 | The police had been long withdrawn from the district and army patrols ventured into it only occasionally . |
| 24 | Mr Pizzarello said the police had been ‘ sneaky ’ in circumventing Newall 's right to silence . |
| 25 | This was the first time the impunity of the police had been challenged in Guatemala . |
| 26 | The police had been alerted by a transport inspector . |
| 27 | The police had been sent to arrest Faky Ali Ahmat and his followers because of a land dispute over ownership of the site of the mosque . |
| 28 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 29 | Some Turks ruefully wondered where all the police had been when the neo-Nazis were gathering . |
| 30 | Throughout the late 1890s the police had been bothered by complaints about young boys throwing stones or spitting from the London bridges on to boats and their passengers below . |