Example sentences of "[prep] [art] ranks " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose she was the sort who would normally have been commissioned , but , all credit to her , she opted for the ranks and she was certainly finding out how the other half lived . |
| 2 | One of the peculiarities of these business cards is that there is no single standard set of English translations for the ranks and positions in Japanese companies . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | A slim fair-haired girl in a long black dress was threading between the ranks of spectators , holding open a bag into which people dropped folded-up pieces of paper . |
| 5 | Between the ranks of bared heads ( one or another of which would occasionally turn to take a quick glance of inspection at his own face ) he could just make out the graceful figure of Mrs Wright herself , kneeling on a hassock in front of the table . |
| 6 | It has been argued by Dr Snell that the fact that overseers were often of humble stock themselves was crucial for the social order of rural communities in that it " facilitated agreement and mutual respect between the ranks and orders of parish society " . |
| 7 | Catholic civil servants usually had to abandon any practical political project if they wished to proceed through the ranks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Foreign Office worthies look forward to a parallel rise through the ranks of the Order of St Michael and St George , from CMG ( Call Me God ) , to KCMG ( Kindly Call Me God ) to GCMG ( God Calls Me God ) , on the theory that gullible foreigners will be more impressed by the ambassador of a second-division power if he 's called Sir Cuthbert Smith instead of plain Mr Smith . |
| 11 | City Profile : Action Man at the action bank Derek Wanless , with a ‘ classic C2 ’ background , has made a meteoric rise through the ranks to become the NatWest 's chief executive at 44 |
| 12 | IAIN CRICHTON-SMITH also writes about the plight of the outsider , that of the officer who has risen through the ranks . |
| 13 | Iain Crichton Smith 's An Honourable Death ( Macmillan , £13.99 ) remains firmly rooted in fact , tracing the career of a real and profoundly troubled figure , Hector Macdonald , a crofter 's son who joins the army on impulse at 17 and rose brilliantly through the ranks to become Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald , the real hero of Omdurman , before homosexual scandal ended his career and his life . |
| 14 | The Oxford-educated daughter of a Norfolk farmer , she began her career as a local authority education officer and inspector of schools , married a headmaster she met on site — he is now an education administrator — moved on through the ranks of Norfolk County Council and chaired Norwich Health Authority . |
| 15 | I had run through the ranks of one gang from the rear , and was approaching the other , twenty-five yards ahead of me along the pavement . |
| 16 | The old Bishop waited for the little murmur of sympathetic approval that ran through the ranks , and they listened just as sympathetically as he rambled on into the usual pious platitudes that ended his eulogy . |
| 17 | Born in a small council house in Viewpark in 1944 , he rose through the ranks of local schools football and almost joined Manchester United as a teenager before Celtic stepped in . |
| 18 | After playing only a handful of games for Celtic , Docherty moved south to Preston North End , where he made his debut on Christmas Day 1949 , eventually displacing his mentor Bill Shankly and rising through the ranks to captain the Preston side . |
| 19 | At that time a new dance director had risen through the ranks . |
| 20 | Foreign students who return home rise through the ranks quickly , but are often more familiar with activated sludge treatment , as used in Britain , than with simple ponds for the stabilisation of waste . |
| 21 | Geoff took up Vet running at a serious level two or three years ago and has forged through the ranks until arriving at the top of the O50s this season . |
| 22 | Howe said : ‘ Seventy-five per cent of that Arsenal team came through the ranks and the percentage is the same at Chelsea now . |
| 23 | Came up through the ranks . |
| 24 | Mr Shiratori rose rapidly through the ranks : in 1971 he joined AA 's worldwide partnership and three years later was made managing partner of the Japanese operations . |
| 25 | It is a profound challenge to those who have built their careers by rising through the ranks of the command organisation . ’ |
| 26 | There was a feeling of helpless impotence which permeated up through the ranks from GI to Supreme Command . |
| 27 | At 19 she went into the family firm and worked her way through the ranks to become the most vehement defender of her father and his girlie magazines . |
| 28 | Before then he had 14 years in charge of West Ham , the club he joined as a schoolboy player and where he progressed through the ranks . |
| 29 | After knocking off her old man , Jessamyn rose through the ranks in the Psychopomps , and racked up quite a score . |
| 30 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |