Example sentences of "officer [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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leadership 's stance ; and Ucatt , the construction union , previously in favour of the 15-year deadline , has recently withdrawn its opposition to the policy review plan . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Had he contested the Customs Officers ' decision , who would have supported him ? |
| 12 | The officers ' overcoat was of an Ulster pattern in dark blue cloth , with a deep collar , and two side pockets just below the hips . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Above the rank of inspector , promotion is a matter of performance and most tellingly , other senior ( male ) officers ' assessment . |
| 18 | A chief officers ' management team , as well as parallel political structures including a policy and resources committee ( consisting of senior elected members ) , was recommended to co-ordinate the decision-making process . |
| 19 | There were parallel structures on the officers ' side with chief officers ' management teams consisting of the senior departmental heads . |
| 20 | Yes , I think it 's totally clear that what we need is a short message , and it 's a white paper , and therefore it 's inviting a message , so what we really need is a short message to go with the A B C and the government act on the two S P's and I would give an undertaking at this point that it will go under the chief environmental health officers ' name . |
| 21 | The triumph of liberalism was therefore the result of the attitude of the army : a minor officers ' revolt had been backed by what was later termed a ‘ negative pronunciamiento ’ — the refusal of the army to support the government . |
| 22 | That first morning I was served a rudimentary breakfast in the Officers ' Home . |
| 23 | C.N.L. have , theoretically , one other alternative : they could at this late stage , without benefit of the P.C.A. documents , mount their own unaided inquiry into the police officers ' conduct and thus seek independently to obtain all the same evidence that the P.C.A. so painstakingly uncovered some three years ago . |
| 24 | We would also commend to CCW the County Planning Officers ' Society 's recent pamphlet ‘ Planning for Sustainability ’ and the document ‘ Planning for a Greener Countryside ’ , published by the old Countryside Commission for England and Wales . |
| 25 | Instead they see the root cause as being prison officers ' alarm at developments which they see as having undermined their ‘ authority ’ . |
| 26 | District council officers ' request for authority to tackle the perceived pigeon menace met with little favour from environment committee councillors on Wednesday . |
| 27 | When in barracks and field dress , generals often choose to wear the general officers ' cap badge not in the dark blue GS beret , but in the ‘ tribal headgear ’ of their former unit . |
| 28 | They are believed to have worked in the officers ' mess of a signals unit posted to Moortsel , a village near Tervuren , 10 miles east of Brussels , in September 1944 . |
| 29 | The Adjutant abandons the idea of a coffee and hurries towards the Officers ' Mess Where the Inspecting Officer is due to arrive shortly . |
| 30 | Brigadier Scott is taken to the Sergeants ' Mess to meet the Mess members , all of Whom have played vital parts either as instructors or in the administrative support of the recruits ' training , prior to lunching in the Officers ' Mess . |