Possessives

• pen: Another half dozen lie within the urban area, outwith the Boro only by the whim of a bureaucrat's pen.

Converse of subject

• run: We all know the EU is run by bureaucrats.

• decide: Under Labor and the Conservatives, far too much has been decided by bureaucrats in London.

Converse of object

• appoint: By then the trade unions were largely controlled by bureaucrats newly appointed by Lechín and the MNR.

• employ: Like the multinational companies, the state employs salaried bureaucrats whose decisions can have a massive impact on a local economy.

• become: LVT could so easily become a bureaucrats ' banquet.

• have: Petty bureaucrats have great bureaucrats upon their backs to bite ' em.

• include: The trade union bureaucracy, including the 'left' bureaucrats supported by the Communist Party, were heavily implicated in productivity deals.

Adjective modifier

• faceless: How short a memory do these faceless bureaucrats think the public of the city have?

• unelected: We have been dictated to by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels for far too long.

• unaccountable: Surrendering such sovereignty to un-elected and unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels is not an option I could ever support.

• Stalinist: The tone was otherwise set by Thorez, one of the most important Stalinist bureaucrats in Western Europe.

• petty: Petty bureaucrats have great bureaucrats upon their backs to bite ' em.

• corrupt: The European Union is run by an unaccountable coterie of corrupt bureaucrats.

Noun used with modifier

• union: In fact there was support from some union bureaucrats.

• trade: Her central argument being that a general strike is not a sterile demand, artificially created in the minds of timid trade union bureaucrats.

• government: Her husband, Justin, a faceless, government bureaucrat at the British High Commission in Nairobi sets out to find the killer.

• NHS: They believe the blame for allowing this lies with upper tiers of NHS bureaucrats.

• state: Nationalization could simply result in industry being run by state bureaucrats, not workers.

• street: National service frameworks and UK general practitioners: street level bureaucrats at work?