Example sentences of "through [art] ranks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catholic civil servants usually had to abandon any practical political project if they wished to proceed through the ranks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | IAIN CRICHTON-SMITH also writes about the plight of the outsider , that of the officer who has risen through the ranks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At that time a new dance director had risen through the ranks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Howe said : ‘ Seventy-five per cent of that Arsenal team came through the ranks and the percentage is the same at Chelsea now . |
| 17 | Came up through the ranks . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is a profound challenge to those who have built their careers by rising through the ranks of the command organisation . ’ |
| 20 | There was a feeling of helpless impotence which permeated up through the ranks from GI to Supreme Command . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After knocking off her old man , Jessamyn rose through the ranks in the Psychopomps , and racked up quite a score . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | IBM Japan Ltd , which restructured in January by creating two subsidiaries , one aimed at small and medium-sized companies and the other offering overall services including consultation and facilities management , has a new president , Kakutaro Kitashiro , who replaces Takeo Shiina , who was also a member of the IBM Corp main board , and is now non-executive chairman of IBM Japan : the new president is 48 years old , a 26-year veteran of IBM Japan , and possesses little of the charisma of the outgoing Shiina ; he rose rapidly through the ranks to a position of potential candidate for president in 1984 . |
| 26 | At a time when most other states favored candidates who had advanced through the ranks California selected office holders on the basis of real or supposed charismatic appeal . ’ |
| 27 | Moustaine walked through the ranks , stuck his fingers into Haines 's mouth and proceeded to pull out the half-chewed food , before hitting him hard in the solar plexus . |
| 28 | They may have risen through the ranks of secretarial work or come from journalism . |
| 29 | He had fought with Pearse in the GPO in 1916 , where he had acquitted himself honourably , and he had risen swiftly through the ranks . |
| 30 | The permanent secretaries in charge of many government departments are arts graduates who have risen through the ranks of the meritocracy to become Knights of the Realm and heads of Oxbridge colleges , simply by virtue of their intellectual training , character , hard work and a modicum of good luck . |