Example sentences of "to police the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To police the new safety standards much more commercial information will have to be passed to local officials in West Berlin . |
| 5 | John arrived first in Australia in 1791 , aged 18 , as a lowly and poorly paid Ensign in the New South Wales Corps , an ill-disciplined and motley band of renegades raised in Britain and sent out chiefly to police the penal colonies . |
| 6 | In the end the police decided not to seek to ban the march but to police the route and to provide protection for the marchers against the violence which had been threatened by opposing factions . |
| 7 | The Conservative government has been sympathetic to these concerns and has launched a fierce rhetorical offensive against social liberalism , initiating or supporting measures designed to police the moral boundaries . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rather than continuing to attempt to police the whole world , they looked for a tighter unity of the formal Empire . |
| 10 | Getting itself involved in access so deeply has turned it from a benign , vaguely representative organisation into one whose role is increasingly to police the activities of climbing and climbers . |
| 11 | Garrisons were established to police the conquered area and to act as islands of English authority , attempts being made to keep the soldiery under some discipline . |
| 12 | The similarity with treaties that create an obligation erga omnes are evident , except that in this case a particular State , or group of States , has undertaken to police the obligation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Just out of Bainbridge by the road that snakes up by Brough Hill are the remains of a Roman camp built by Agricola in the first century AD to police the area . |
| 15 | Turning to the consumer 's view of these conditions , a customer who buys from a " never knowingly undersold " ( or , indeed , any ) source presumably would benefit from occasionally looking elsewhere to police the claim ( though there is a free-rider problem here — if the price reduction becomes general once any one consumer has complained , why not let someone else do it ? ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ They have been hired in droves to police the lower city . ’ |
| 18 | In return the government promised to police the five security zones inside which an estimated 13,000 contras had congregated , in line with an April agreement [ see pp. 37370-71 ] to disband under UN supervision , and to transform the security zones into development areas . |
| 19 | The agreement ( i ) conferred land rights on ethnic Indians living in the eastern Amazonian department of Beni , covering the Isiboro Sécure el Iviato National Park and 170,000 hectares of the central forest of Chimanes ; ( ii ) established that a multiparty commission would be set up , composed of government and indigenous Indian representatives and others from " respectable institutions " , to draft a new Law for Indigenous Indians of the East and Amazonia ; ( iii ) established that timber merchants in the central Chimanes forest had to end their operations by Oct. 31 , 1990 , when contracts to cut timber would not be renewed ; and ( iv ) made provision for a further multiparty commission to be set up to police the agreement . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The United Nations was never intended to police the world . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Member states are obliged to police the Directive and the safety of products put on the market . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What one does n't want to do er is is by having to police the situation cause a charge to be erm brought up against the council . |
| 26 | British Rail are to remain the employer of the British Transport Police for the immediate future , in order to ensure that the British Transport Police will continue to police the whole of the restructured railway er a an order amending the British Transport Police Force Scheme in nineteen sixty three will be laid before Parliament shortly . |
| 27 | But there is no intention of turning the area into a clearway because it would not be possible to police the area effectively . |
| 28 | It may be hypocritical of us to police the students . |