Example sentences of "[noun pl] officers " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when dancing with Minton at the Gargoyle and hearing some Guards officers making snide remarks he walked up to the table , laden with food and champagne , where they were sitting with their ladies and overturned the lot , and was barred from the club for about two weeks . |
| 2 | Similarly bodies such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England , often depicted as the last refuge of ex-Etonian Guards officers and assorted upper-class cranks , was able to speak with a new confidence and a new authority , attract a new breed of membership and turn itself into a highly professional custodian of the English countryside . |
| 3 | A monologue that centred on hunt balls , riding to hounds , polo and the disgraceful decline of the manners of Guards officers were hardly subjects about which they were often invited to give an opinion . |
| 4 | Although she showed little interest in my academic life — her energies were spent in the pursuit of foxes and Guards officers — she was always brimful of common sense on every subject under the sun , not to mention having constant contact with a string of eligible young men who seemed to arrive in a never-ending convoy at the front door of 97 Chelsea Terrace . |
| 5 | The G M B annual conference is the supreme policy making body within the union all members branches officers and sections national committees and conferences are subject to its authority . |
| 6 | In a renovated Georgian terrace house less than a quarter of a mile from the Civic Centre , actors , actresses , arts officers , leisure officers , artists-in-residence , playwright-in-residence , and a visiting jazz musician gathered together to laugh , to sing , to eat spinach salad and green bean salad and mackerel pate and wholemeal bread and curried brown rice : they played games , word games , charades , quotation games . |
| 7 | Over the centuries officers had had to nurse their wooden ships for structural reasons and this had provided a certain measure of protection against excessive sail-carrying . |
| 8 | We have two women Equal Opportunities Officers who took up post in early September . |
| 9 | The Equal Opportunities Officers will work with both the Race Relations and Sex Discrimination Committee to develop equal opportunities for all at the Bar . |
| 10 | The sepoys officers shouted at their men and tried to rally them . |
| 11 | Comparable conduct by non-police officers would surely have led , in less than four years , either to criminal charges or to punishment for contempt of court . |
| 12 | We would normally prefer to put er the individuals officers firearms ho ? id |
| 13 | The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we were n't there . |
| 14 | The counter-proposal is that zero-rating of exports should remain , but that traders would be obliged to list every item exported for spot-inspection by customs officers . |
| 15 | PARIS — French customs officers along the entire length of the Pyrenees announced yesterday that they were joining the 19-week-old strike by the country 's tax collectors and would be closing the border to commercial traffic , writes Patrick Marnham . |
| 16 | Customs officers at many ports are refusing to pass commercial traffic . |
| 17 | At Roissy airport , near Paris , the customs officers have refused to check cargo flights since last week . |
| 18 | The strike affects not just tax and customs officers but every branch of the state 's financial service . |
| 19 | Anyone importing or exporting large sums in cash should be obliged to declare it and Customs officers should have power to seize the money if they suspected it was derived from crime . |
| 20 | Customs officers arrested Ahmet Ataban in September at Dover , Kent , when they found 13 kilos of the drug after removing the tyres from the wheels of his lorry . |
| 21 | Last May British Customs officers seized a shipment of comics brought in by Titan , and recently comics shops in London have been raided by police . |
| 22 | In August , the intelligence service will be fully staffed with a team of 400 police and Customs officers . |
| 23 | He was jailed for 13 years after Customs officers found three- quarters of a ton of the drug in the back of his lorry at Dover . |
| 24 | He drove to a Customs depot where it was sealed by Spanish Customs officers . |
| 25 | When it was opened by Customs officers a crate containing cannabis with a street value of £2.5 million was found in the back . |
| 26 | The first small groups to be provided with pensions were the lower-paid naval warrant officers in 1672 , and soon afterwards customs officers ; while an Act of 1749 set up a scheme for master merchant mariners . |
| 27 | When they disembarked at Algeciras , the Spanish customs officers searched the car and made them open their luggage . |
| 28 | The customs officers were very understanding and found a mirror and propped it up on the customs bench for her . |
| 29 | A great many civil posts — postal officials , customs officers , policemen , street cleaners — were duplicated and this led to a serious imbalance between the non-productive bureaucracy and the private sector production workers . |
| 30 | Had he contested the Customs Officers ' decision , who would have supported him ? |