Below you will find example sentences with "civil servants". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Civil Servants in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: civil
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 16
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 15 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "civil servants" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 400 000 civil servants refused to, 50 000 civil servants can use, service, public and jewish stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with civil service, civil rights, civil society, civil service, civil liberties and civil aviation, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with civil servants
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
About 50,000 civil servants can use the technology. (9 words)
Kogi is purely a civil service state where the bulk of the money in circulation comes from civil servants. (19 words)
A spokesperson says U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is reviewing a report about whether his top deputy bullied civil servants. (21 words)
Hindenburg resented this bill in case it was not amended to exclude all Jewish veterans of World War I, Jewish civil servants who served in the civil service during the war and those Jewish civil servants whose fathers were veterans. (40 words)
Pandemonium filled the headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja on Wednesday as the National President, Ayuba Wabba, engaged in a fight with civil servants who demanded explanations over a failed housing scheme for public servants. (38 words)
Continuing civil unrest led to an almost complete breakdown in normal activity: civil servants remained unpaid for months at a time, and cabinet meetings had to be held in secret to prevent local warlords from interfering. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Hindenburg resented this bill in case it was not amended to exclude all Jewish veterans of World War I, Jewish civil servants who served in the civil service during the war and those Jewish civil servants whose fathers were veterans.
Politicians and not civil servants should make any "exceptionally difficult decisions" on Stormont's public finances, a union representing senior civil servants has said.
However, local government staff were paid less on average than the overall figure for civil servants, though the overall figure for civil servants was higher than the national average.
Pandemonium filled the headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja on Wednesday as the National President, Ayuba Wabba, engaged in a fight with civil servants who demanded explanations over a failed housing scheme for public servants.
For a leader who chose his policies with less thought than he did his military uniforms, it is not surprising that he treated his civil servants with less respect than he did his personal servants.
The aim of the forum was to involve civil servants in public activities of the Belarusian capital, popularize civil service among the youth.
Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA, which represents senior civil servants, warned that the PM’s allies are exhibiting a “fundamental misunderstanding” of the modern civil service.
Swinney and Evans also insist civil servants cannot be expected or compelled to offer opinions on what happened, claiming that would breach the civil service code.
In the past 15 years, the civil service has almost doubled in size despite an increase in the number of civil servants separating every year.
The opposition, All Progressives Congress (APC), Civil Society groups and civil servants had condemned the lawmakers for passing the bill they described as self seeking.
Kogi is purely a civil service state where the bulk of the money in circulation comes from civil servants.
The presidency has, since then, been appealing to stakeholders, especially the civil servants, to support efforts at building a vibrant civil service and corruption-free Nigeria to make the mantra effective.
Continuing civil unrest led to an almost complete breakdown in normal activity: civil servants remained unpaid for months at a time, and cabinet meetings had to be held in secret to prevent local warlords from interfering.
About 50,000 civil servants can use the technology.
According to the parallel National Unity Government (NUG), over 400,000 civil servants refused to work for the regime and joined the CDM following the coup.
Addressing the federation's Workers' Day gathering in Durban, Vavi said the government needed to pay civil servants a minimum living wage of R75 per hour or R12,500 per month.
A file photo of Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (middle) with Lagos Civil Servants during a working visit to the State Secretariat, Alausa, on Tuesday, October 4, 2022.
All social welfare – including the cash handout – will remain unchanged next year, while civil servants will see a pay raise from Jan.
And they did not hear that public sector workers including civil servants, the police and the military are not being paid their salaries.
A spokesperson says U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is reviewing a report about whether his top deputy bullied civil servants.