Example sentences of "defeat at [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wilson treated the majority with caution prior to his defeat at the polls in June 1970 . |
| 2 | DUNDELA boss Mervyn Bell was n't a happy man after his side 's Bass Irish Cup defeat at the hands of Glentoran . |
| 3 | Howard Kendall after the defeat at the hands of Manchester City last week |
| 4 | Newton Aycliffe 's Christine Brunskill also avenged her defeat at the hands of Middlesbrpugh and Cleveland Harrier Marie Stansmore . |
| 5 | Now they are devastated by their one-point defeat at the hands of Waterloo and must regret allowing Barnes to play for the Barbarians against Australia . |
| 6 | In June 1940 the land of Louis XIV and Napoleon had experienced swift defeat at the hands of Germany . |
| 7 | North 's uncharacteristically poor season was typified by the defeat at the hands of Bangor on Sunday , Mark Napier 's unbeaten the only bright spot of the 74-run loss . |
| 8 | With or without Campbell the Blues should have few problems against an Ards side that crashed to a 5– defeat at the hands of Cliftonville in their first TNT cup tie at the weekend . |
| 9 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 10 | THE defending champion , Michael Chang , suffered a shock second-round defeat at the hands of South African Marcos Ondruska in the Lipton Championships at Key Biscayne , Florida . |
| 11 | ENGLAND B were left to reflect on what might have been after missing a couple of vital tackles in their 20-16 defeat at the hands of South Africa at Bristol . |
| 12 | Rugby , and in the Courage League at Kingsholm last night Gloucester narrowly avoided defeat at the hands of London Irish . |
| 13 | Richardson 's Garvey colleague Dan Clarke will win his 50th cap in the game , and will be hoping that the Irish can improve on the 4-1 defeat at the hands of England when they last met in the Centenary Trophy staged in Dublin in June . |
| 14 | League leaders Hibs have to pick themselves up from their League Cup final defeat at the hands of Rangers when they meet Hearts in the Edinburgh derby at Easter Road tomorrow . |
| 15 | League leaders Hibs have to pick themselves up from their League Cup final defeat at the hands of Rangers when they meet Hearts in the Edinburgh derby at Easter Road tomorrow . |
| 16 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 17 | MERSEYSIDE 'S hopes of some sort of compensation following their opening defeat at the hands of Yorkshire came to nothing last Sunday . |
| 18 | Prestatyn saw their title ambitions mauled by a bleak home defeat at the hands of St Asaph . |
| 19 | Doubters among the party 's membership will argue that the combined Brown and Tsongas vote against Mr Clinton confirms their fears that questions about his character will lead to a crushing defeat at the hands of President Bush . |
| 20 | England 's dreams of winning the cricket World Cup for the first time ended in disappointment today with defeat at the hands of Pakistan . |
| 21 | He suffered his only defeat at the hands of Kingmambo in the mud at Maisons-Laffitte in April . |
| 22 | STEFAN EDBERG 's Wimbledon preparations were shunted off the rails last night as he crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of world No 83 Jamie Morgan in the Stella Artois championships at Queen 's Club . |
| 23 | Top British skiers Martin and Graham Bell suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of novice Macclesfield-born Gavin Forsyth in the downhill event at the British national championships in Tignes , France , yesterday . |
| 24 | NORTHAMPTON 'S surprising defeat at the hands of Midlands rivals Nottingham on Saturday has most probably ended their League championship hopes for 1992 . |