Example sentences of "who joined the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unemployed engineer in Coventry , who joined the Labour Party after being made redundant , walks to all his meetings and reckons he wears out his shoes three times faster than when he was working . |
| 2 | As one who joined the Labour party to support my predecessor John Mackintosh as a great European enthusiast , I take great pleasure in the position that has been taken by my party in recent months on this important issue . |
| 3 | Those moralists who joined the new coalition were usually motivated by the same structural factors which brought together other groupings : the economic and military threat to Empire , alarm over the falling birth-rate and the residuum . |
| 4 | Jason Gurney , who joined the International Brigade , wrote of such feelings : |
| 5 | Kulaks who joined the Imperial Navy , even in the commissioned ranks , did not normally expect to enjoy a long life . |
| 6 | The hotel stands on the site of the home of General Hugh Mackay ( 1640–92 ) , who joined the English army in 1660 , serving in France and Holland , eventually returning to England with William of Orange , in the Revolution of 1688 . |
| 7 | AT THE International Cricket Council meeting at Lord 's in July , the five-year bans imposed on those who joined the English XI ‘ rebel ’ tour of South Africa in 1989–90 , captained by Mike Gatting , were lifted . |
| 8 | Among those who joined the Foreign Office/Army Intelligence at Bletchley Park were Lorna Bottomley , Mary Humphrys , Lucienne Palmer and Janet Seligman . |
| 9 | Clarke is a former nightclub bouncer who joined the Foreign Legion in 1980 but went absent without leave just nine months later . |
| 10 | Compare that to the millions who joined the unemployed register . |
| 11 | This was the man , it should always be remembered , who joined the British army and worked as a stretcher bearer in the Zulu rebellion of 1906 , giving as his reason that ‘ the British empire existed for the welfare of the world ’ . |