Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] sports " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kasper was just back from an hour-long agonising on Swiss television about the disaster in store for the winter sports industry . |
| 2 | They come for the winter sports and the spectacular scenery . |
| 3 | Inter is a name synonymous with functional , practical footwear for the leisure sports market . |
| 4 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 5 | The front of the machine sports some graceful curves , but it 's only when you take a peek round the back that you get some inkling that this one is different . |
| 6 | Much of the weekend sports action though , IS N'T so close to home … |
| 7 | The Le Mans race has been a prominent part of the World Sports Car Championship since its inauguration in 1953 and formed a round in the championship every year with the exception of 1956 and 1975–79 . |
| 8 | Jaguar from Kidlington finished fifth in the opening round of the World Sports Car Championship over in Japan yesterday . |
| 9 | The Harp , who had been chasing a fifth consecutive Division One title , were also thrown out of the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup and this decision was upheld by the Coast FA . |
| 10 | The other side of the headstock sports a set of gold plated , Gotoh-type machineheads and an Allen key holder , both in gold . |
| 11 | Ireland 's playing pool is small because , amongst the team sports , rugby ranks a distant fourth behind gaelic football , hurling and soccer . |
| 12 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 13 | Similarly , in the summer months , workers associated with the winter sports industry and with the rush to produce and sell goods and services during the lead-up to Christmas find that their services are no longer required . |
| 14 | In the summer , athletics , cricket and tennis take over from the winter sports . |
| 15 | Cycling : Different types of cycles can be hired from the village sports shop . |
| 16 | Will he please explain why , in the list of sports and games that are supported , we find that there are apparently more people who support and provide funding for model aircraft than support and provide funding for rugby league , and why a sport that is universally recognised as a great sport gets not a single penny from the Army Sports Control Board ? |
| 17 | Rowing , sailing , canoeing , sub-aqua , and water skiing , are centred in the Water Sports Centre , which is sited on the banks of the River Bann . |
| 18 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 19 | I resumed running in my fifth year at the school , winning the 200 metres in the school sports and coming second in the 100 and 400 metres . |
| 20 | Anyway , Friday 's assembly is a ‘ whole school ’ event held in the school sports hall . |
| 21 | Winners of the Dundalk Area Indoor Soccer competition held in the Muirhevnamor Sports Centre , Dundalk on 16th March 1993 were the Navan team , front , l. to r. : — Eamonn Kelly and Cathal Ryan . |
| 22 | So Tommy comes up and says Dad , yes son , can you come to the school sports day , and you say , when 's that son ? |
| 23 | And he says my dad is coming to the school sports day . |
| 24 | They get to the school sports and they say , where 's your dad ? |
| 25 | hello there this week our summer sporting action is whitewater rafting … we 've come to the water sports centre at Holme Pierrepoint which is the only centre of its kind in Britian … |
| 26 | Local projects to benefit include the Alton Sports and Social Club who will receive £1,000 towards extensions to the Harry Baker pavilion ; Medstead Parish Council , who have been awarded £1,500 towards extensions to the village sports pavilion ; and Old Alresford Cricket Club , who have been given £100 to upgrade windows in their pavilion . |
| 27 | Yet she argues in ‘ August 1746 ’ that the rebels should be shown mercy [ see ML , 2 , 61–63 ] ; one did not , however , need to be a Jacobite to object to the blood sports of public execution . |
| 28 | And during that time , thousands of students have socialised in the campus bars , played on the University sports teams and been members of the University clubs and societies . |
| 29 | BSkyB yesterday announced it will screen live 40 US PGA tournaments on the Sky Sports channel next year . |
| 30 | In view of the size of the commitment , an outside catering contractor had to be called in to help provide lunch for 1,400 people in a large marquee on the garrison sports ground . |