Adjective modifier

• native: Indirect rule in the North confirmed the power of native chiefs, who naturally found that their interests were identical to the British.

Preposition: of

• staff: I have only seen it in the paper that the prisoner was Chief of the Staff of the Citizen Army.

• police: They deserve more time than the headteacher, the managing director of the chief of police.

Noun used with modifier

• police: Three top police chiefs sang from different hymn sheets on Tuesday.

• ambulance: Attacks on paramedics soaring Attacks on paramedics in Staffordshire have risen fourfold in the past three years according to ambulance chiefs.

• council: TAXI drivers say their livelihoods have been put at risk because council chiefs are handing out too many new licenses.

Modifies a noun

• executive: Ian Mullen, BBA chief executive, took over in May 2001.

• constable: The police authority should liaise with the chief constable about the frequency with which visits should be carried out.

• officer: Most car parks approved by chief police officers for security.

• inspector: Why was Hans Blix, the UN's chief weapons inspector, not given more time?

• economist: These factors will continue to support the market over the remainder of 2006 ' , said Halifax chief economist Martin Ellis.

• priest: And has he not come here for the purpose of bring them bound before the chief priests?

Used with adjective complement

• appoint: Percy SMITH was appointed Chief of Police by the Executive.

Noun used with modifier

• clan: Meet your clan chief, trace your roots, stay in a castle, tour the distilleries.

• crew: Crew chief for on three of on the bike.

• intelligence: The new Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Nawaf, is also a man who understands the world of the tribes.