Example sentences of "[noun] from [art] ranks [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ So now we 've got a double whammy : the firms ' short-term needs are less and there is arguably plenty of provision for those needs from the ranks of newly qualified members who , as students , went into training contracts in 1987 , 1988 and 1989 . ’ |
2 | There are many young men who will mourn her departure from the ranks of the available , ah ( sigh ) , some of whom had fond memories of her , others , merely hopes . |
3 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
4 | Another contemporary , Sergei Solov'ev , made the same point more acerbically when he said that " In the Roman Empire emperors ascended the throne from various callings " , whereas " in the Russian Empire Alexander II ascended the throne from the ranks of the heads of military-educational institutions " . |
5 | Lay support from the ranks of the rural gentry and the urban tradesmen had been vital in preserving Nonconformity during the years of repression after the Restoration . |
6 | It features over 200 young musicians from the ranks of the Junior Youth Chorale , the Junior String Orchestra , the String Training Orchestra and the Training Orchestra . |
7 | The next move was to find a chairman from the ranks of the great and the good , someone of acknowledged independence who combined the qualities of Solomon and Job . |
8 | find other homes , the hostel was managed by the Hackney Aid Committee for Refugee Children , who recruited a matron and staff from the ranks of the unemployed refugees . |
9 | Even if their abolition increased mobility — in it allowed the recruitment of entrepreneurs from the ranks of prudent shopkeepers and industrious artisans — the closed life of the family , which the guild had represented , remained the most durable social institution of the urban middle classes . |
10 | While there is no doubt that fascist organisations like the National Front have attempted to recruit members from the ranks of football hooligans , there is little to connect them with violence in the game ( Popplewell , 1986:59 ) . |
11 | More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy . |
12 | The Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General ( the law officers of the Crown ) are ministers , not in the cabinet , appointed by the Prime Minister from the ranks of Members of the House of Commons who are barristers . |
13 | The political class under Franco — ministers , political appointees in the civil service and members of the Cortes ( Spanish Parliament ) — was drawn to a marked extent from the ranks of civil servants ( Beltran 1977 : ch. 2 ) . |