Example sentences of "[vb pp] into [art] ranks " in BNC.
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| 1 | The better off , or more fortunate , merged into the ranks of the privileged clergy ; the poorer were sons of serfs . |
| 2 | His second son succeeded him as a clothier , his eldest son , Sir James , having already moved into the ranks of the landed gentry . |
| 3 | He was pressed into the ranks of the northern army , ‘ whereby he might somewhat be instructed of the difference between the sitting quietly in his house , and the travail and danger which others daily do sustain' . |
| 4 | In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes . |
| 5 | These slaves could be admitted into the ranks of the sultan 's ‘ New Troops ’ — the yeniçeri or janissaries . |
| 6 | This instructive dissonance between a non-reflective , depoliticised father recruited into the ranks of the petty bourgeoisie in the late nineteenth century , and an increasingly critical and politicised son rebelling against the alienation of petty-bourgeois existence in the early twentieth century captures precisely the ideological climate of the period leading to the events of February 1934 . |