Example sentences of "to join the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one wild man of the movies refused to join the teetotal club , and continued flying the well-oiled flag-Oliver Reed . |
| 2 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 3 | ISRAEL may boycott the next round of Middle East peace talks because a jailed man from the West Bank has been invited to join the Palestinian team . |
| 4 | They had n't cared to join the small crowd of spectators in the old stand , but had remained in the car parked about twenty-five yards behind one of the goals . |
| 5 | Then I was asked to join the small group selected to meet the Royal personage in attendance , the Duchess of Gloucester . |
| 6 | She decided to join the long taxi queue . |
| 7 | There have been no Lotus world champions since then but Ayrton Senna ( Bra ) is hoping to join the long list of past champions . |
| 8 | There was widespread regret when Butler resigned , in 1935 , to join the Agricultural Research Council , of which he became the first paid secretary . |
| 9 | On the ground he was safe from an hussar 's blade , so Karelius concerned himself with him no more , but urged his mare on down the footpath to join the advance guard in the main street . |
| 10 | The girl who this year became the youngest Wightman Cup player in history is technically not allowed to join the professional tour until she is 14 , in March . |
| 11 | The Bodicote based player becomes one of only seven women to join the professional circuit . |
| 12 | Those who campaigned against ‘ non-intervention ’ , however , clung to the belief that if Britain could be persuaded to join the Soviet Union in active resistance to fascism , then a general war could still be avoided . |
| 13 | States could choose to join the Soviet Union or the people 's Republic of China in the non-market part of the world economy . |
| 14 | The Lithuanian and Latvian Supreme Soviets , emulating the vote by their Estonian counterpart in November , adopted on Feb. 7 and 15 respectively declarations condemning the votes taken in July 1940 by their predecessors , the parliaments of independent Lithuania and Latvia , to join the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | He also promised unilaterally to reduce Soviet strategic nuclear warheads to 5,000 , rather than to 6,000 as required under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) [ see pp. 38320-21 ] ; challenged the USA to open negotiations to effect deeper cuts , i.e. a further 50 per cent reduction , in the strategic nuclear arsenal of both countries ; and called on the USA to join the Soviet Union in imposing a ban on nuclear testing for at least a year and to renounce the " no first use " nuclear strategy . |
| 16 | In an effort to ensure there will be no counterstrike the Royal Saudi pilots forsook the Muslim holy day today to fly their missions , a reminder that religious and political loyalties could be severely tested if Israel was to join the allied force . |
| 17 | He 'll have to join the great gang of us who move around in disguise on Saturdays till half an hour after kick-off time . |
| 18 | Indeed , her father had shocked her by breaking this silence and by advising her , when she went up to Cambridge , not to join the Communist Party ; a joke 's a joke , he told her , but you do n't want trouble with visas if ever you want to go to America . |
| 19 | Finally in November 1935 the Committee decided to withdraw its members from the ILP and to join the Communist Party . |
| 20 | The Revolutionary Policy Committee members in the London Division resigned to join the Communist Party in November 1935 . |
| 21 | ‘ Special admission ’ applicants are persons from overseas who would not normally be entitled to join the vocational course at the Inns of Court School of Law ( ICSL ) , but can be permitted to do so in exceptional circumstances . |
| 22 | In his reply St. Johnston said that the Chief Inspector of Constabulary at the Home Office , whom he had consulted , did not think he should accept the invitation to join the working party , but that there would be no objection to his attending any meeting to which he might be invited . |
| 23 | Progress on the restoration of Glenburrell Bridge was reviewed by Mr Tim Wallace ; in particular he reminded members that volunteers were always most welcome to join the working party at the bridge . |
| 24 | One suspects that Ibsen , faced with a character like Quisling , would immediately have applied to join the Norwegian Resistance . |
| 25 | You should think long and hard before deciding to join the unhappy throng . |
| 26 | A late arrival came out between the automatic doors , stared at the queue , walked back inside to join the uniformed chauffeur who had been waiting and holding a card . |
| 27 | St John 's was an active centre of geological work and this decided Strahan to join the Geological Survey of England and Wales . |
| 28 | THE RAW political pressure for an early decision to join the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) was increased at Blackpool yesterday by a coincidental pincer movement headed by Michael Heseltine and the Daily Mail . |
| 29 | They thought that sovereignty in itself would take Ukraine out of Russia 's sphere of influence and , in time , allow it to join the European mainstream . |
| 30 | The arguments about whether to join the European Community were won or lost two decades ago . |