Example sentences of "joined the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horticulturists appear to have joined the legion of defectors from the practice of assuming that their customers or clients are all dedicated part-time classicists , with comprehensive dictionaries at their elbows . |
| 2 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen has joined the lexicon of names familiar to viewers of ‘ Ski Sunday ’ , but its Bavarian charms are just as great whatever the season . |
| 3 | No sooner had Mr Mason joined the group of guests than a servant entered to announce the arrival of an old gipsy woman , who was supposed to be a skilled fortune-teller . |
| 4 | When Wycliffe returned to the bookshop Dr Franks 's Porsche had joined the line of vehicles down one side of the street and it was raining . |
| 5 | In September 1934 the USSR had joined the League of Nations , and six months later they signed a pact with France . |
| 6 | In 1540 he transformed the office of Wards , formed in 1503 , into the Court of Wards , to which was joined the office of Liveries in 1542 . |
| 7 | GROUPS as diverse as the Royal Fine Art Commission and the National Union of Mineworkers have joined the controversy about plans for a new supermarket . |
| 8 | France Telecom has not joined the queue of enterprises seeking privatisation , and its chairman has said that the current statute is quite adequate . |
| 9 | A woman who caused a row when she applied for a teaching job under a false identity has now joined the debate over children 's reading . |