Example sentences of "[noun pl] to join the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Movement took against him , not so much because he had neglected the bureaucratic niceties , but more because he was ‘ a weedy , conceited , unattractive young man ’ who did not respond to exhortations to join the war effort ( presumably by swapping his camera for a pick and shovel ) . |
2 | The latest companies to join the Display Industry Association , the consortium backing AlphaWindows display terminals ( UX No 365 ) are NCR , Specialix , Bull and Siemens Nixdorf . |
3 | Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying . |
4 | It has always been difficult to organize hotel workers by the very nature of their industry but the time has now come for those very workers to join the G M B so that collectively we can fight the exploitation of low paid workers . |
5 | As he set off from Washington to campaign in Cleveland , Chicago and New York , he hinted strongly that he might be prepared to send American ground troops to join the UN peacekeepers who have gone to Macedonia to try to stop the Balkans war from spreading . |
6 | Up to now Tranmere reserves have had to play in the Midland Senior League , having had several previous applications to join the Pontins League rejected . |
7 | I , and be equated with the Tow Valley Fault in North Antrim , extending southwestwards through the Sperrins to join the Castle Archdale — Ox Mountains faults ( J. R. P. |
8 | The other branch runs south-eastwards through New Guinea and the New Hebrides and through a scatter of small Melanesian islands , before making an abrupt dog 's leg northwards to the Samoan islands to join the Tonga-Kermadec chain which extends southwards again into New Zealand . |
9 | Once again in 1985 we will be looking for four new members to join the Executive Committee to replace Pat Keen ( retiring ) , Doreen Prescott ( retiring ) , Pauline Kenward ( now Vice-Chairman ) and Joan Daniels , who took office as Honorary Treasurer in May . |
10 | At the station they fought their way through the crush of travellers to join the ticket queue which already numbered some three hundred people . |
11 | Anti-military parents will allow their sons to join the Boy Scouts , but prohibit them from joining a Cadet Corps … |
12 | Keith Scott , agreed to move from third division Wycombe Wanderers to join the rescue effort at Swindon Town . |
13 | Yet Stevenson claims the company was founded by accident — and that he had no plans to join the family firm in any case . |
14 | The Green Paper mentions the need for married women to join the labour force and talks about ‘ incentives ’ ( paragraph 79 ) . |
15 | AMPES ' work was basically to try and get more women to join the trade unions and political organizations . |