Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] joining " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paper reports being told by another Microsoft competitor that Novell approached it about joining a potential independent antitrust suit against Microsoft . |
| 2 | Its evocation of an idealized pre-war era and its commitment to anti-semitism prevented it from joining forces with other maverick Conservative press barons like Rothermere and Beaverbrook . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the old enemies , the Durotriges , possibly with their allies the southern Dobunni , were soon on the rampage and pinned down Legio II Augusta in its fortress at Exeter and prevented it from joining Paullinus in the Midlands . |
| 4 | The Friendship , Co-operation and Mutual Assistance Treaty , first signed in 1948 [ see p. 9228 ] , bound Finland to a military defence pact and prevented it from joining any international organization whose members posed a military threat to the Soviet Union — a definition which had been taken to include the EC . |
| 5 | April 30 : visit by Prime Minister Popov to NATO headquarters and statement that Bulgaria would not sign a security treaty with the Soviet Union which that precluded it from joining other alliances . |