Example sentences of "into [art] ranks " in BNC.

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1 They have the power to send the rest of us into the ranks of the army , if they like , or into prison or the colonies .
2 But assuming Collor 's Brazil makes it into the ranks of the developed world , it will do so at the lowest level of eligibility , on a par with the East European countries .
3 There are occasional signs of attempts by Downing Street to infiltrate a new type of person into the ranks of the lieutenancy .
4 The better off , or more fortunate , merged into the ranks of the privileged clergy ; the poorer were sons of serfs .
5 A Ramsay ! ’ he led straight into the ranks of stationary horses .
6 Now their commander must dragoon several tech or merchant gangs from the Oberon spire into the ranks .
7 But woman-centred psychology 's commitment to bringing women into the ranks of psychologists as emblems of femininity has a number of drawbacks .
8 Alternatively , one could ask whether the working class suffer social closure inasmuch as its members find upward mobility into the ranks of the middle class exceptionally difficult .
9 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' .
10 After the election , though , the NDP faded into the ranks of the coalition majority , having neither roots nor party organization of their own , and Unionist efforts were carried on instead through a Labour wing in their own party .
11 Being part of the secondary market , however , carries a substantial risk of being pushed back into unemployment , and possibly into the ranks of the underclass .
12 Although he sees some decline in the numbers of the petty bourgeoisie ( the small property owners ) due to competition from large companies , he argues that they enter white-collar or skilled manual trades rather than being depressed into the ranks of unskilled manual workers .
13 In the 1990s some of these will move into the ranks of successful barristers from whom judicial appointments are made .
14 Individuals from pressure groups , or at least representing specific interests , secure entry into the ranks of those who exercise power by virtue not only of expertise but also of personal qualities , such as persistence and charm , which enable them to persuade that they have something to contribute to public decision making .
15 These slaves could be admitted into the ranks of the sultan 's ‘ New Troops ’ — the yeniçeri or janissaries .
16 The industrial revolution of the eighteenth century brought England into the ranks of major European powers , and although the English were somewhat detached from the affairs of the continent , and more concerned with imperial expansion overseas , the events of the French Revolution and the wars with Napoleonic France forced them to play an ever increasing role in Europe .
17 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 .
18 Andreeva went on to complain of historical plays , such as those of Mikhail Shatrov , which were arbitrary in their interpretation and close to the views that had been put forward by Lenin 's opponents , and she deplored the obsessive interest in Stalin among many writers , obscuring the fact that his was a complex and transitional period in which industrialisation , collectivisation and a cultural revolution had brought the USSR into the ranks of the great powers .
19 Not before time , either , as Cud — once unseeded losers around the indie table — have steamed their way into the ranks .
20 He renounced his apprenticeship in 1858 and resolved to follow his eldest brother into the ranks of the Geological Survey .
21 His second son succeeded him as a clothier , his eldest son , Sir James , having already moved into the ranks of the landed gentry .
22 Edmund rode with slashing spurs and flailing sword into the ranks of the mutinous archers , his knights hard after him .
23 ‘ If it goes as we expect , then your task , when they are close enough , is to split me a way into the ranks of the two central battles of pikemen . ’
24 " Busy people are never too busy to do what they know to be important " was the challenging comment that brought me under his spell and a bit later into the ranks of his followers .
25 According to the Prime Minister , Gen. Hau Pei-tsun , it would lead Taiwan into the ranks of the world 's top 20 countries in terms of per capita income by the year 2000 .
26 Not before time , either , as Cud — once unseeded losers around the indie table — have steamed their way into the ranks .
27 It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence .
28 He swiftly integrated the 300,000 or so men of the Resistance army ( the FFI ) into the ranks of the regular army and disbanded a Resistance-run paramilitary force known as the milices patriotiques .
29 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 .
30 J. R. Campbell directed revolutionary comrades in the ILP as follows ; Fight for a revolutionary policy and work with the Communist Party to carry out that policy ; work for coming over en masse into the ranks of the Communist Party .
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