Example sentences of "[conj] joined the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The MQM and the PPP had been at loggerheads since October 1989 , when the MQM ended its 11-month old alliance with the PPP and joined the Combined Opposition Parties [ see p. 37043 ] . |
| 2 | Within minutes they had gone into the kitchen , donned overalls and caps and joined the tall girl at the counter who was coping with an admiring queue . |
| 3 | Leonard Cutts was born on Nov 27 1904 and joined the Kent-based Hodder & Stoughton in 1922 . |
| 4 | Yanto nodded , picked up his bait bag and joined the other lucky ones . |
| 5 | Mr Rafferty moved to Belfast and joined the Irish News in the 1950s and in 1962 he began work as a sub-editor with the Belfast Telegraph . |
| 6 | Walker retired in 1937 and joined the Southern board , on which he sat until railway nationalization in 1947 . |
| 7 | Some of them , like some Karavas , seized available economic opportunities and joined the new élite . |
| 8 | Four parties had previously collaborated with the SED within the National Front : ( i ) the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) which merged with the West German CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] ; ( ii ) the Democratic Farmers ' Party of Germany ( DBD ) , whose chair , Günther Maleuda , resigned on June 25 and was temporarily replaced by Ulrich Junghanns pending a merger with the CDU ; ( iii ) the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( LDPD ) , which renamed itself the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the new League of Free Democrats in February 1990 and merged with the West German FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] ; and ( iv ) the National Democratic Party of Germany ( NDPD ) which joined the League of Free Democrats in March [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] . |
| 9 | In March , 1939 I pulled myself together sufficiently ; I faced up to realities and joined the Auxiliary Fire Service . |
| 10 | I was one of the selected few who were billetted ashore and joined the various boats every day . |
| 11 | Liechtenstein was elected to membership of the UN in September [ see p. 37731 ] , and joined the European Free Trade Area ( EFTA ) in May 1991 [ see p. 38209 ] . |
| 12 | She lives in Aislaby , near Yarm , and joined the Liberal Party in 1960 and was treasurer of Stockton Young Liberals . |
| 13 | He graduated from Moscow University with degrees in psychology and political science and joined the internal security . |
| 14 | I had left the Co-op and joined the Civil Service as a clerical assistant in the Tax Office . |
| 15 | In nineteen sixty six I stood for election of the national organizer and was successful and joined the head office in Glasgow in May nineteen sixty six . |
| 16 | I went to university at the Sorbonne in Paris , entered the royal service , and joined the French crown 's legion of secret agents called the Luciferi , the Light-Bearers . |
| 17 | It 's sobering to ponder that if Cook had followed family tradition and joined the foreign service , he 'd be running the country by now . |
| 18 | But this was an A-road and I wanted to keep mainly to the minor routes , so half-way up I turned off behind the Ponderosa Cafe and joined the Old Horseshoe Pass . |
| 19 | Accused men fled and joined the growing band of outlaws . |
| 20 | In Santa Ana , she could n't do political work because of her bad reputation , so she left her child with her mother and joined the mass organization in San Salvador . |
| 21 | In 1913 he was a co-founder of the Irish Volunteers and joined the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood . |
| 22 | Katy announced plans to become a missionary while studying for her A levels and joined the Christian organisation Youth with a Mission . |
| 23 | William " Stanley " Usher , who had been elected in September 1989 as an opposition UDP representative , was expelled from the party on Dec. 13 , 1989 , and joined the ruling PUP ; he had signalled his support for the PUP immediately after the general election . |
| 24 | He left school at fourteen and after several jobs became apprenticed to a toolmaker and joined the Amalgamated Society of Toolmakers in March 1916 . |
| 25 | After being turned down by university , I moved to London and joined the Territorial Army , attending evening training sessions in preparation for the physical selection tests . |
| 26 | Nick Logan was n't one of these ; he was a ‘ ticket ’ , a mod who came up to town by train , from Walthamstow in his case , which was where he grew up , left school at 15 and joined the local paper . |
| 27 | We came to live in the south side of the city , and joined the local parish church which , by coincidence , had been Leslie 's mother 's church ; he himself had not been a member , nor had I attended it . |
| 28 | In November 1819 Hickman matriculated in Edinburgh , registered with the university , and joined the Royal Medical Society , but he did not graduate . |
| 29 | The tradition ended in 1828 when the bull woman apparently burnt her clothes of office and joined the Methodist church . |
| 30 | The UK finally overcame its internal doubts and external diplomatic problems and joined the Common Market ( the EC ) in 1973 , along with Ireland and Denmark . |