Example sentences of "officer [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third approach , ‘ police-community attitudinal change ’ , attempted to change officers ' attitudes to minority groups via a series of lectures , encounter groups and sensitivity training . |
| 2 | Chief Supt Jimmy Blair — praised police officers ' actions before the Portadown bomb exploded . |
| 3 | In the vote on the NUM motion three factors helped to tip the balance in favour of the Labour leadership : the NUM lacked the support it commanded last month at Blackpool from Nalgo , the local government officers ' union , since the latter is not affiliated to the party ; the pro-nuclear EETPU , absent from Blackpool since its expulsion from the TUC , cast its votes in favour of the leadership 's stance ; and Ucatt , the construction union , previously in favour of the 15-year deadline , has recently withdrawn its opposition to the policy review plan . |
| 4 | A crisis of inmate unrest , with recurrent rooftop protests or rioting ; a staff crisis , with the Prison Officers ' Union forcing thousands of prisoners to be held in police cells ; above all , a numbers crisis , with successive Home Secretaries announcing , at various times , that the breaking point of the system would be reached when the prison population passed the 40,000 , or the 44,000 , or the 50,000 mark . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | Later he denied having ever attended committee meetings of the Officers ' Union , or indeed having done more than establish four branches for them at Glasgow , Leith , Liverpool and Hull before resigning in September 189I . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A letter bomb had in March wounded three at a prison officers ' union headquarters ; another killed an officer 's mother in Granada on Aug. 11 . |
| 12 | The Merchant Navy officers ' union , NUMAST , in its submission to the Donaldson inquiry , claimed yesterday that some tankers sail with crews unable to steer or understand basic safety rules . |
| 13 | Had he contested the Customs Officers ' decision , who would have supported him ? |
| 14 | The co-ordinating council of the officers ' assemblies set up in January [ see p. 38730 ] sent a message to the summit calling on delegates to agree on the draft proposals on military issues , to halt troop withdrawal from eastern Europe until social protection for servicemen could be assured , and to maintain the military at an adequate level for defence . |
| 15 | The officers ' overcoat was of an Ulster pattern in dark blue cloth , with a deep collar , and two side pockets just below the hips . |
| 16 | In recent years the officers ' freedom to divorce professional judgement from political calculation has , in many authorities , diminished sharply , and today 's chief officers are increasingly coming ‘ to see their role as less than that of a neutral professional or technocrat and more that of a bureaucratic politician ’ ( Laffin and Young , 1985 , p. 51 ) . |
| 17 | And I feel sorry for the officers ' families who have to know that every time they go to work they 're in this sort of danger . |
| 18 | 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. |
| 19 | This distinction had been blurred not only by officers ' participation in the committees but by the Pflimlin government 's delegation of supreme civilian authority to the Commander-in-Chief , General Salan . |
| 20 | These may all be worthy aims , but they are so far removed from the reality of most house officers ' experiences as to be laughable . |
| 21 | The judge was told it might not be possible for the trial to take place if the officers ' identities were not protected . |
| 22 | Prison officers ' leaders claimed that the Tories wanted to destroy jobs — and the plans would reduce jail security . |
| 23 | To this end the investigator shall circulate a questionnaire to about 150 traffic officers and inspectors in a major provincial Police Force to look at : views on the impact of Fixed Penalty Notices on police/public relations ; officers ' workload ; officers ' exercise of discretion ; supervisors ' mechanisms for monitoring discretion ; views on the proper extent , limitation , acquisition and training of discretion ; and attributes of the offence and the offender which influence officers ' decisions . |
| 24 | A second tier of officers ' groups have specialised remits and report to the Consultative Council through the OSG ( Richardson and Jordan , 1979 , p. 108 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Officers ' helmet-plates had the Garter motto Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense in place of the regimental title . |
| 27 | Although there were famous instances of resistance to individual officers ' claims , some people who protested suffered reprisals . |
| 28 | The officers ' occupation was called off on Feb. 15 , with an agreement that the appointment of a civilian Defence Minister should be postponed until after the May general election . |
| 29 | Above the rank of inspector , promotion is a matter of performance and most tellingly , other senior ( male ) officers ' assessment . |
| 30 | By and large , these and other regional officers ' reports from the second wave of evacuation did not indicate that the outcry of September 1939 was justified ; typical of them was the verdict of one officer in October 1940 that ‘ the general standard of those evacuated is good and 80% of them should offer no difficulty at all in billeting ’ . |