Example sentences of "police have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thames Valley Police has formed special Burglary squads to deal with the problem . |
| 2 | Past questionnaire research on the police has suffered from a low response rate ( for example , Policy Studies Institute 1983a ) . |
| 3 | Today , in the former East Germany , weekly revelations about the cooperation of even leading figures in the pre-1989 underground opposition with the secret police has exposed the shocking totality of society 's complicity . |
| 4 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 5 | LOTHIAN AND BORDERS Police has made a big step forward in crime prevention work with its new information caravan . |
| 6 | The paper circulated demonstrates that since eighty-eight nine through to ninety-three four , whereas county council spending as a whole has gone up by thirty-eight percent , spending on the police has gone up by eighty-eight percent , and that 's more than double . |
| 7 | The letter boasted : ’ the South Wales Police has received approval for 99 extra police posts since the Government took office , with actual strength increasing by 198 — or 7 per cent . |
| 8 | Police Expenditure on the police has risen by 55% since 1978–1979 Insufficient effort , though , has been devoted to making sure policemen are on the beat . |
| 9 | Although spending nationally on the police has risen 73 per cent . |
| 10 | An opening at the Met Despite resistance by its more conservative elements , the Metropolitan Police has begun a process of reform that should lead to improvements in the way it operates and encourage better relations with the public . |
| 11 | Hypnosis may work better outside the laboratory ; we do not know because no one using hypnosis for the police has done properly controlled tests , although one American police hypnotist insists that hypnosis is helpful 90.1 per cent of the time . |
| 12 | In reply the Metropolitan Police has launched yet another campaign to convince women that they will get a serious and immediate response from the police . |
| 13 | SOUTH AFRICA : Dr Jonathan Gluckman , South Africa 's leading independent forensic pathologist , has received death threats following his publication of 26 July of forensic evidence that the police has murdered scores of people in custody . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , as Reiner ( 1985 ) suggests , the politicization of the police has proceeded at a pace , and can be illustrated by their growing willingness to respond to political dissent as a form of ‘ crime ’ or deviancy . |
| 15 | Whether this will in practice make a great difference may be doubted , since it seems unlikely that a court will come to the conclusion that a chief constable of police has come to a decision that he could not reasonably arrive at , which is the critical test for the exercise of the powers of judicial review . |
| 16 | A UNION which sacked a Liverpool councillor after she helped the police has demanded a review of a reinstatement order . |
| 17 | A former inspector in Durham police has died at the age of 77 . |
| 18 | In such circumstances the figures for those activities will rise as a result of the police having spent more time and money in dealing with them . |
| 19 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 20 | Would the police have left a man at the Rectory in case Amy returned ? |
| 21 | ‘ Why could n't the police have helped you ? ’ |
| 22 | The Gama'a vowed revenge for the death of those killed in Assiut , who included a 23-year-old militant leader believed by police to have directed the group 's campaign of attacks on tourists in the southern Nile valley . |
| 23 | Cedomir Biga , a Serbian who died on 2 September while detained by Croatian police in Dreznik , was said by police to have died from a heart attack . |
| 24 | He had expected the police to have reappeared . |
| 25 | As he was getting into the train , Jordi smiled and shrugged as he had done that night in Valladolid when the secret police had led him away . |
| 26 | The Haldane Society was reported in October 1988 to have claimed that the police had devised ‘ techniques and procedures ’ to bypass or avoid the safeguards in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act . |
| 27 | I know that 's why you would of got done if the police had stopped |
| 28 | In a case in May 1988 , a youth called Alladice confessed to armed robbery after the police had denied his request for a solicitor . |
| 29 | The Suffolk police had begun hunting up previous owners of Wyvis Hall and they had been alerted that a Verne-Smith lived in their area . |
| 30 | Minton therefore had good reason to worry that the police might one day arrive to search the house , for one of the notorious aspects of the Montagu case was the disclosure that the police had done this without warrants . |