noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a factory inspector (= an official whose job is to check that laws or rules related to factories are being obeyed )
▪
Factory inspectors reported that safety precautions had been ignored.
chief inspector
inspector of taxes
tax inspector
weapons inspector
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
▪
A police chief inspector , an optician and the general manager of Lerwick Harbour Trust were among those who saw it.
▪
But something still troubled the chief inspector .
▪
I assume the present senior chief inspector will produce his annual report next year.
▪
His daughter's beauty had never ceased to surprise the chief inspector .
▪
She has married a chief inspector with the Met. and moved to St. Albans.
▪
No doubt the former chief inspector will be on hand to deride such soggy thinking.
▪
The issue was forced when Mr Blunkett discovered during the Labour conference last year that the chief inspector was thinking of resigning.
▪
Mr. Straw To try to suggest that the senior chief inspector agreed to 175 is preposterous.
deputy
▪
Gen Larry G.. Smith, who was on track to become the deputy inspector general of the Army.
▪
Smith's appointment as deputy inspector general never took effect.
▪
Recently, Howard said, one of the deputy mine inspectors turned down a $ 60,000 job offer from a mining company.
local
▪
Again local inspectors do not seem to do so well in engendering trust.
▪
Employment of local government inspectors is concentrated in cities and in suburban areas undergoing rapid growth.
▪
I would certainly be very interested to hear from readers who have obtained agreement from local inspectors on similar cases.
▪
Again it is July 1994 and the company is under investigation by the local inspector of taxes.
▪
There will still be local government inspectors - we are not privatising them.
▪
HMIs fulfil both of these conditions, but this is not so for local authority inspectors .
▪
The deeds, the solicitor and the local building inspector will confirm the position.
▪
The top copy is detached and sent to the firm's local tax inspector .
senior
▪
I assume the present senior chief inspector will produce his annual report next year.
▪
In February, the then senior chief inspector , Eric Bolton, decided to resign.
▪
Mr. Straw To try to suggest that the senior chief inspector agreed to 175 is preposterous.
▪
This has led to a range of top level employees including high powered vets, scientists and senior inspectors .
▪
Two key assumptions lie behind the senior chief inspector and myself arriving at the figure of 175.
▪
Mr Rod Perriman, the former chief inspector , resigned last year because senior inspectors were upset about the plans.
■ NOUN
customs
▪
They were sure the customs inspectors were being bribed.
▪
He then became a customs inspector , but he found the work dreary and went back to the ministry.
detective
▪
By 1965 things had eased, but my detective inspector still railed against my three-quarter length corduroy car-coat with its red lining.
▪
It was with a detective inspector called Eddy Russell.
general
▪
The inspector general of police declared the pastoral letter seditious and possession of it a crime.
▪
Toward the mid-1970s, the Army inspector general took notice of the situation and began questioning procurement officials.
▪
Gen Larry G.. Smith, who was on track to become the deputy inspector general of the Army.
▪
Smith's appointment as deputy inspector general never took effect.
health
▪
And public health inspectors found the kitchen overrun with the insects after a hygiene probe was launched.
▪
When health inspectors investigated, they found no problem of physical toxicity.
▪
Public health inspectors swooped after a horrified customer spotted a cockroach scuttling through the restaurant.
rspca
▪
He was totally dejected said RSPCA inspector Terry Winbstone.
▪
But you can't plan your day when you're an RSPCA inspector .
▪
But the RSPCA inspector who found Capri says the ban's too short.
safety
▪
Whilst accidents are increasing, health and safety inspectors have been cut by 20 percent.
▪
When the safety inspector comes to the door, the machine is quickly turned on.
▪
It said it would hire more safety inspectors , create a technical support staff and continue to improve crew communications.
school
▪
It will be headed by chairman Gordon Williams, a retired headmaster and schools inspector .
▪
In 1912 school inspectors reported that only 2 % of young people were unable to read or write.
tax
▪
Frequent visits from tax inspectors are one nuisance.
▪
It also claims that the audit is an aid to the company, its bankers, potential suppliers and tax inspectors .
▪
Even better, people like tax inspectors didn't visit even under cover, unless they were feeling suicidal.
▪
The top copy is detached and sent to the firm's local tax inspector .
▪
She used to be, and you are not amazed, a tax inspector .
▪
A spotlight on them in this company and they would feel like tax inspectors .
▪
The incident began after two tax inspectors and a bailiff called at the man's house.
▪
A woman I know works as a tax inspector .
■ VERB
appoint
▪
It refers not to truncating the inquiry but to the timescale before appointing an inspector and publishing the report.
build
▪
He conveyed this to the building inspectors , which allowed the Council to withdraw their objection on this score.
▪
Working Conditions Construction and building inspectors usually work alone.
▪
Generally, building inspectors , including plan examiners, earn the highest salaries.
▪
Employment Construction and building inspectors held about 64, 000 jobs in 1994.
▪
A primary concern of building inspectors is fire safety.
▪
Construction or building inspectors need several years of experience as a manager, supervisor, or craft worker before becoming inspectors.
▪
On the third day, the city building inspectors came.
send
▪
He is preparing to send inspectors into the company to investigate growing evidence that the London-based firm knowingly supplied smugglers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
a Health Department inspector
▪
the building inspectors
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A sergeant's car was hit, and two shots were fired at an inspectors vehicle.
▪
City inspectors of all kinds were shaking citizens down, as were the police.
▪
Clarkson, a quality control inspector , scored two.
▪
Eighteen months on, some head teachers are complaining that inspectors are fulfilling their duties with a zeal which smacks of prejudice.
▪
In 1912 school inspectors reported that only 2 % of young people were unable to read or write.
▪
The inspectors said that there was poor provision in certain aspects of teaching children with reading difficulties.
▪
The public observations and published documents of Government inspectors did not point to falling standards in basic subjects at the primary stage.
▪
The ticket inspector then interrupted the conversation and said this was not possible.