Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] ranks " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Known as FJ Gutmann in the 1930s , he anglicised his name to Goodman for the war years , serving in the ranks as a soldier before becoming attached to the Royal Air Force 's Photographic Interpretation Unit at Medmenham by the war 's end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is a profound challenge to those who have built their careers by rising through the ranks of the command organisation . ’ |
| 5 | On graduation in 1899 she entered the Imperial Ballet , bypassing the corps de ballet and rising through the ranks to ballerina in 1905 and prima ballerina a year later . |
| 6 | The Hearts manager is happy with the quality of players coming through the ranks , but will only blood them when he feels the moment is right . |
| 7 | New consultants are thus coming from the ranks of the research consultants as well as from industry and , recently ( with less success ) , from rival headhunters . |
| 8 | About 10 per cent of the new jobs are likely to go to the self-employed , most of them coming from the ranks of those already in employment . |
| 9 | The statement was also allegedly intended to calm the high level of irritation and dissatisfaction existing in the ranks . |
| 10 | A furtive swirl of movement troubled the rear ranks of the assembled household , and cast up Brother Jerome from his unaccustomed retirement , emerging through the ranks without eagerness , almost reluctantly . |
| 11 | Even at the best of times fighting in the ranks can cause disarray and confusion in the army . |
| 12 | It was this same moral , ethical dimension which finally , after September 1939 , made it impossible for Nizan to remain working within the ranks of that same party . |