Example sentences of "[art] [adj] officers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its co-sponsor is none other than the Police Federation , the junior officers ' staff association , traditionally the organisation most wary of reform . |
| 2 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 3 | He considered applying to the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps of Arkansas University , a nearly foolproof means of escaping combat service in Vietnam . |
| 4 | The Conservative Party were willing to accept a corporate structure based upon the chief officers ' team : the Labour Party wanted the locus of corporate power to rest in a strong policy committee emphasising the practical as well as formal power of the councillors . |
| 5 | Once one budget round is over in March , the chief executive and the chief officers ' group will prepare papers for the policy and resources committee identifying key issues for deeper analysis , possible priorities for the next financial year , and areas for major economies . |
| 6 | In 1889 a newly formed officers ' union , the Certificated Officers ' Union of Great Britain and Ireland , had asked for assistance from the NAS&FU in developing its organisation in return for an agreement that its members would refuse to employ non-union members . |
| 7 | An instruction was issued by the Seamen 's Union that members were not to engage on ships whose captain and officers were not members of the Certificated Officers ' Union and any doubts among the majority of shipowners that a national organisation of employers was necessary to protect their interests disappeared . |
| 8 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 9 | I AM writing on behalf of the ships company of HMS Active , and in particular the Petty Officers ' mess , to formally thank the city of Liverpool for the excellent hospitality that has been shown to us during our visit . |
| 10 | The secondary officers ' ranking system , of gold and scarlet chevrons in a sequence worn below a gold star on each forearm , was ordered removed from August 1941 . |
| 11 | When in barracks and field dress , generals often choose to wear the general officers ' cap badge not in the dark blue GS beret , but in the ‘ tribal headgear ’ of their former unit . |
| 12 | Capture the Indian Officers ' Club atmosphere in this brightly lit restaurant . |
| 13 | Bibit and four companions were assisted in their escape by 15 soldiers from the Young Officers ' Union , a shadowy , dissident group within the armed forces which was believed to have played a leading role in organizing the coup attempt . |
| 14 | Like all the other officers ' wives she wore a uniform of their own devising , pale-green skirt and shirt . |
| 15 | The claim was made in an article published in the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 6 , which suggested that Clinton had received a four-year deferment from the draft by promising to join a reserve officers ' training programme ( ROTP ) at the University of Arkansas . |
| 16 | The professional officers , particularly when organised through a chief officers ' team , as advocated by the Bains Committee , and led by a chief executive officer can provide a formidable obstacle to councillors intent on policy innovation that goes against conventional assumptions . |
| 17 | A chief officers ' management team , as well as parallel political structures including a policy and resources committee ( consisting of senior elected members ) , was recommended to co-ordinate the decision-making process . |
| 18 | There is a small officers ' annex in the village itself for me to be impotent at , and it is on this hygienic apartment that we increasingly depend . |
| 19 | William Whitelaw 's brother officers in the Scots Guards included , for example , a future Archbishop of Canterbury , a future Lord Chamberlain , the man who would become Moderator of the Church of Scotland , the future chairman of United Biscuits and five lord lieutenants as well as the Home Secretary : not bad for a single officers ' mess . |
| 20 | Living in the house , Farrel soon discovered , was like being a very junior NCO in a senior officers ' mess . |
| 21 | The triumph of liberalism was therefore the result of the attitude of the army : a minor officers ' revolt had been backed by what was later termed a ‘ negative pronunciamiento ’ — the refusal of the army to support the government . |