Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] officer [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The less that was known about the political officer 's activities , the less was understood about his responsibility for events .
2 By 0815 we are half-way through the Commanding Officer 's morning conference .
3 The , it was officially launched in London yesterday at Ken 's House , unfortunately neither of the two officer 's could go , it was rather short notice , but it has been officially launched now as a national thing .
4 Following its discussion of the Chief Officer 's paper the Council held a conference for the colleges on ‘ Planning for academic diversification ’ .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Despite the older officers ' complaints , the level of job satisfaction — when they can set aside the paperwork and get out into the field — is high ( cf.
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 He emptied a bottle of champagne into the Commanding Officer 's silver tankard , and reached for another .
11 Repeatedly he plunged his knife into the bewildered officer 's head and chest until he collapsed .
12 This picture of Dreadnought was so wide of the mark that Willis found it better to say nothing , simply making a gesture which had something in common with a petty officer 's salute .
13 Aircraftman First Class Burton got away with it even — it was said — when caught undisguised in flagrante with a leading officer 's wife .
14 But in an instant the laughter was gone from the Political Officer 's mouth .
15 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 .
16 An entry in the medical officer 's report book of January 1906 is in marked contrast .
17 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 .
18 Living in the house , Farrel soon discovered , was like being a very junior NCO in a senior officers ' mess .
19 Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war .
20 He considered applying to the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps of Arkansas University , a nearly foolproof means of escaping combat service in Vietnam .
21 By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction .
22 He made it all seem easy , producing an excellent meal , and the lunch party at the Commanding Officer 's residence went off without a hitch .
23 Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this
24 Even in Germany , the social disqualification of middle-class origins might still have to be purged by a reserve officer 's commission — hence , in part , the wide acceptance of the military tone of German society .
25 Tommy 's mouth-organ , rusty and falling apart , seven pounds eleven shillings and sixpence in back pay , followed by a German officer 's helmet .
26 I saw one man being struck by a mounted officer 's baton , picked up by some shocked onlookers and given first-aid ; I heard a policeman say to another : ‘ I 'd shoot the whole fuckin' lot . ’
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