Example sentences of "[art] ranks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catholic civil servants usually had to abandon any practical political project if they wished to proceed through the ranks . |
| 2 | Within the ranks of the clergy and religious orders themselves , there was a far from complete , centralized structure , but rather a dual one . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the ranks of that clergy were drawn from the common people themselves . |
| 4 | Shapland and Hobbs ( 1989 ) consider many low status activities are effectively invisible , while Chatterton and Rogers ( 1989 ) acknowledge many cultural inhibitors , ranging from a lack of trust between the ranks to a ‘ number of deeply rooted myths about the existing police systems which protected it from criticism and disguised its deficiencies ’ . |
| 5 | But the ranks and clusters of them stretched uncountably into the darkness . |
| 6 | They have the power to send the rest of us into the ranks of the army , if they like , or into prison or the colonies . |
| 7 | As well as launching the series , he had launched himself ; he had moved from the ranks of a contributor to the little poetry magazines into the mainstream ; his apprenticeship days were over . |
| 8 | ALTHOUGH the British government would deny ‘ grooming ’ a candidate from within the ranks of its Hong Kong civil service for the job of chief executive after transition in 1997 , it has given John Chan , 46 , a series of fast-track official posts which make him a credible contender for the job . |
| 9 | Known as FJ Gutmann in the 1930s , he anglicised his name to Goodman for the war years , serving in the ranks as a soldier before becoming attached to the Royal Air Force 's Photographic Interpretation Unit at Medmenham by the war 's end . |
| 10 | A MAJOR step in the development of the game in the ranks of the Services took place at St Helens on Sunday , when , in a curtain-raiser to the first match of the New Zealand tour , an RAF team defeated an Army XIII by 22-14 . |
| 11 | Haines , 50 , should certainly know exactly what it takes to run a multi-million-pound industry , having climbed through the ranks to become chairman of the United Sugar Merchants Association . |
| 12 | New inspectors and advisers , who are usually drawn from the ranks of teachers , are rarely trained , it says . |
| 13 | As representatives of the ranks of the great unfashionable made their way to their seats weighed down by crates of lager , it was clear , at the band 's first British appearance for seven years , that paunches may come and full heads of hair may go , but times do n't change . |
| 14 | The authorities may contend that they demonstrate their determination to find extremists in the ranks . |
| 15 | The panel will include : The Observer 's Latin American specialist Hugh O'Shaugnessy ; Chilean refugee , Helia Lopez , whose brother-in-law joined the ranks of the ‘ disappeared ’ in 1973 ; and Andy McEntee , who is secretary of the Chilean Committee for Human Rights . |
| 16 | After all , if this week 's polls are anything to go by , she may be joining the ranks of Britain 's retired pensioners in 1992 . |
| 17 | For example , Manning ( 1977 ) showed how policemen and women in the ranks have an ability to bypass or undermine innovations introduced by police managers , some even doing so while appearing to endorse the policy change ( Chatterton 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Her son had better stay within the ranks , she thinks . |
| 19 | Since the majority of them were neither party members , nor teachers or agronomists , they represented a valuable addition to the ranks of those who might be able to promote smychka in the countryside . |
| 20 | The close links between the Fabians and Milner 's kindergarten on the one hand , and the personal link in Chamberlain 's own career between radical reform and tariff imperialism — he wanted the Conservative Party to hypothecate the financial yield of the preferential tariff to providing old age pensions — are reminders that at the beginning of the century ‘ social imperialism ’ did not sound the paradox it does today , and that the forefathers of modern British Socialism are to be found in larger numbers in the ranks of the imperialists than of the Little Englanders . |
| 21 | The manager would inspect the ranks . |
| 22 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 23 | The problem of fascist sympathies among the ranks of MI5 at the outset of the war is entirely ignored , as is the removal in 1940 of its founder and director , Sir Vernon Kell , which may or may not have been connected with that issue . |
| 24 | In Laing 's view , getting to the top in management by climbing up through the ranks is fifty per cent luck , but when the opportunities present themselves , they have to be grasped , and that often requires courage . |
| 25 | Hutton , later to become the first professional captain of England and knighted in 1956 , joined the ranks of those who had to embody the hopes and expectations of an England creaking under the weight of its industrial and imperial past , but whose sense of destiny was still quite strong . |
| 26 | It was from the ranks of Oxbridge enthusiasts that these commentators were mostly drawn . |
| 27 | Many an anti-dog man joins the ranks of dog lovers because he is too weak to resist the demands of beloved children , but in Wexford 's household the demands had never been more than half-hearted , so he had passed through this snare and come out unscathed . |
| 28 | There follows a slow procession as the Inspecting Officer progresses along the ranks of extremely proud recruits and Training Staff . |
| 29 | Like the other intakes they are a mixture of schoolboy entrants , overseas cadets and ex-soldiers with varying degrees of experience and proficiency in the ranks . |
| 30 | The talks which Lewis gave to the RAF were on such basic issues as ‘ Why we think there is a Right and Wrong ’ , and from such simple beginnings he framed , in language which was meant to be arresting to ordinary men in the ranks , an exposition first of the theist position , then of the Christian religion . |