Example sentences of "officers who were [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 At the time of this incident the incident was carried out by a group of officers who were called the operational support unit .
2 There was nearly always coffee or a huge meal of steak or fish and chips going for any of our officers who were searching the large rigs and barges .
3 Then this morning , there had been a note from the Super saying the Dean had requested that the police officers who were investigating the crime should please remember where they were when going in and out of the Cathedral .
4 More sinister are the deaths in suspicious circumstances of two army officers who were investigating the rhino horn trade .
5 When it was announced by the State Department on 17 October that military equipment , including light bombers , was being supplied for the armed forces both of France and of the Associated States , it was a distinction without a difference because in practice it was the French who were in control : even if Bao Dai was insistent that the French officers who were to train the soldiers of the Vietnamese national army should be responsible directly to him rather than to the French High Command .
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