Example sentences of "[art] civil [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Outside the Civil Engineers ' Hall , in George Street . ’ |
| 2 | Bragg and Morton went through the imposing portal of the Civil Engineers ' Hall , and looked about them . |
| 3 | It was at the Civil Engineers ' Hall . ’ |
| 4 | We have not been able to establish if anyone got into the cab with him outside the Civil Engineers ' Hall . |
| 5 | ‘ Only a stone 's throw from the Civil Engineers ' Hall . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Tell me , sir , did you go to the lecture at the Civil Engineers ' Hall that Friday ? ’ |
| 7 | These included the Foreign Office ( allegedly too pro-EEC and generally too prone to make diplomatic concessions at the cost of British interests ) , the Civil Service Department ( too accommodating during the civil servants ' pay strike in 1981 ) , the Department of Employment ( allegedly too ‘ soft ’ under Mr Prior ) , and Education ( allegedly too sympathetic to the education lobbies ) . |
| 8 | The civil servants ' reluctance would be resolved by a ministerial directive that the project must be supported — some action was always better than none , the project would have an impact in several regions , if it worked it would boost exports and create employment . |
| 9 | The report — which examines the civil servants ' handling of the sale — is understood to question why British Aerospace was the only main bidder where detailed and full inquiries were made . |
| 10 | Caution may arise from the civil servants ' commendable desire to protect their Minister from criticism or embarrassment , but it may also result from Ministerial reluctance to contemplate unpopular options . |
| 11 | It has been said that the report was the civil servants ' idea of heaven , with even more figures for the number-crunching mandarins to compare with those that British Rail provided yesterday — to be followed by requests for further reports tomorrow to explain the discrepancies . |
| 12 | Members of the Legislative Assembly in July , 1990 , rejected a call from the civil servants ' association to accept an effective salary reduction by giving up overtime and other allowances , so that the money saved could go towards a delayed pay rise for civil servants . |
| 13 | Apart from that , it was not a Civil Engineers ' meeting as such . |
| 14 | They are as boring as a civil servants ' convention , but for armagnac , they are ideal . |
| 15 | Sadly , this uprating , like all the others announced by the Secretary of State , is a civil servants ' uprating — a shuffling of the pack . |