Example sentences of "[art] grand " in BNC.

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1 for example : the swift change from the grand développé à la seconde which Odile makes facing the audience and her sudden turn to arabesque when she looks straight into the kneeling Siegfried 's eyes in the Act II pas de deux of Swan Lake ; it is Odile 's triumph for she knows she has won Siegfried 's heart .
2 JOHN McENROE and Michael Chang head the entries for the grand prix tournament at Wembley on 7-12 November .
3 Now the Dutchman 's goal has been reduced to two clear rounds in this evening 's Modern Alarms Cup and victory in the Grand Prix .
4 While Europe in general , and West Germany in particular , rejoice at the removal of the grand prix finals from Madison Square Garden to Frankfurt 's Festhalle next year under the banner of the Association of Tennis Professionals , others are already rummaging through fond memories .
5 This will clear the way for the International Automobile Federation ( FIA ) to reach a conclusion on Mansell 's appeal against his exclusion from the Grand Prix at Jerez .
6 Fignon , who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 , and finished just eight seconds behind Greg Lemond this year , failed the test after his team , Super U , placed second in the Grand Prix de la Liberation in Eindhoven on 17 September .
7 IVAN LENDL stresses that he has no intention of becoming ‘ a kamikaze ’ , even though the world No. 1 proposed to take sleeping tablets while travelling to Sydney to rejoin the grand prix circuit this week .
8 The Dutchman Jos Lansink , the only rider left with a chance of meeting the conditions for the first Everest Challenge ( which had required him to jump double clear rounds in four specified contests ) , would have collected a Jaguar car if he had won the Grand Prix .
9 Tony Meo and Eddie Sinclair take up centre stage during yesterday 's third-round matches in the grand prix snooker event being held at The Hexagon in Reading
10 Tony Meo and Eddie Sinclair take up centre stage during yesterday 's third-round matches in the grand prix snooker event being held at The Hexagon in Reading
11 • The Phoenix city authority has announced it may relinquish financial involvement in the grand prix next year and seek an independent promoter .
12 • The mayor of Phoenix said he was encouraged by the positive response to the grand prix from the city .
13 Considering he was joining an honour roll that included his big brother John , it was somehow fitting that Patrick played the leading role in the two-hour 48-minute finale to the grand prix circuit which saw the younger McEnroe and Jim Grabb dismiss the more experienced Anders Jarryd and John Fitzgerald 7-5 , 7-6 , 5-7 , 6-3 .
14 The final yesterday was the last under the auspices of the Men 's Tennis Council , which had controlled the Grand Prix circuit since 1970 .
15 Because the terrain so lends itself to visual spectacle , the grand prix races draw crowds from Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck like no other .
16 His Questions au soleil levant received the Grand Prix de Poesie de l'Academie Francaise , but although it awarded him medals , the Academy never granted him the membership that was his life 's ambition .
17 Prost 's racing glove conceals an iron fist Alan Henry finds that the three-times world champion does not pull many punches in his candid tale of life on the grand prix circuit .
18 Also representing France were Ramsin , who had won the Prix du Cadran and the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud , and his stable-companion Arlequino , winner of the Prix de Chantilly .
19 In the Arc she was reopposed by Shardari and by Saint Estephe , who had himself been beaten in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud by the German-trained Acatenango , also in the Longchamp field and unbeaten in his last twelve races , including the German Derby .
20 Mersey had won the Prix Royal-Oak ( the French St Leger ) in 1985 ; Iades had won the Prix Dollar at Chantilly ; Baby Turk had won the Grand Prix de Deauville .
21 At Talaq had won the Grand Prix de Paris after finishing fourth in the Derby , and French challenger Mont Basile had won four races during the season .
22 She won the first half , the Grand Prix , from Sven Rothenberger on Ideaal and Monica Theodorescu on Grunox .
23 This is the barrique-aged wine that gained cult status as A360P , the Michelin map reference of Grand Cru Muenchberg , when the appellation authorities temporarily forbade Ostertag to use the Grand Cru name on the label .
24 Skelton and Everest Major Wager , who had been unlucky not to reach the jump-off of the Volvo showjumping World Cup round , went flat out to overtake Whitaker on Henderson Grannusch in the Grand Prix .
25 Werth triumphed in the Grand Prix , the first part of the World Cup final on Friday , and yesterday edged home in the freestyle .
26 CYCLING : David Cook ( Darlington ) and Simeon Hempsall ( Sheffield ) , the 1989 and 1990 national amateur road race champions who are both now based with French clubs , have been called into Britain 's team for the Grand Prix Liberazione one-day event and the Giro Regioni stage race in Italy from April 25 to May 1 .
27 Fogarty , riding a Ducati , is eighth in the championship — second only to the Grand Prix series — while Rymer is 10th on the Mobil 1 Kawasaki .
28 To add to Marrakesh prestige , the event received royal patronage on the eve of the race and was renamed the Grand Prix Hassan II/Marrakesh International Marathon .
29 In June 1914 , the celebrated dining car which had won the Grand Prix at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 became part of the Royal Train .
30 Specialist climbers are often short and light , like the Luxembourger Charly Gaul , who won the Tour in 1958 , or Scotland 's Robert Millar , who in 1984 took the Grand Prix de la Montagne , the only British winner of this prize .
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