Example sentences of "[be] beat [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caressing it , I absorbed the message about who should be beaten at all cost : the English . |
| 2 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 3 | Pure gold can be beaten out to form very thin sheets ; according to Pliny , writing in the first century AD , 25 g of gold could be beaten into 750 leaves each 10 cm square . |
| 4 | His reported reaction was that if his order could answer a hundred heretics a year , they would not be beaten by one Catholic . |
| 5 | Determined not to let herself be beaten by such obstacles , Prue came up with the idea of a luncheon club for professional women in the Exeter area . |
| 6 | ‘ Could anything be worse than to be beaten in two Cup finals ? ’ |
| 7 | Geoff has completed 50 years service with Rolls-Royce and associated companies , a record unlikely to be beaten in these modern enlightened times . |
| 8 | His heart seemed to be beating in some huge dry place an echoing cavern . |
| 9 | DAMON Hill saw his late father Graham 's Monaco Grand Prix record broken by Ayrton Senna but was the first to congratulate the Brazilian despite his own personal disappointment of being beaten into second place . |
| 10 | ‘ Someone , ’ she announced , her voice suddenly strong again , ‘ someone has to try to prevent poor women from being beaten by great strong brutes . ’ |
| 11 | The thought of debonair Seb Smith being beaten by spotty , horrid little Nails tickled Nutty 's imagination . |
| 12 | And his gallant countrymen were beaten at last . |
| 13 | Manufacturing systems manager Phil Knapper said : ‘ Congratulations to both factories for setting such high standards and also to Mason 's Ironstone who were beaten into second place by just one point . |
| 14 | Labour held Hemsworth , where the Conservatives were beaten into third place by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 15 | Latymer had taken the lead after 10 minutes but , despite playing the better football throughout , were beaten by two scrambled goals from Rodney Walshe , one just before half-time and the other 30 seconds from the end . |
| 16 | It would have been money well spent by Wolves , who were beaten by two goals from the in-form striker after taking the lead through Paul Cook . |
| 17 | Few excuses can be offered for the England batsmen 's failure to pile up runs both here and in the first Test at Calcutta , where they were beaten by eight wickets . |
| 18 | As in Calcutta — where England were beaten by eight wickets — and Madras , where they lost by an innings and 22 runs , the English batsmen had no answers to the spin bowling . |
| 19 | Esh , meanwhile , were beaten by five wickets at home to . |
| 20 | The surviving stowaway said his friends on board the MacRuby were beaten by six crewmen before being hurled into the Atlantic off Portugal . |
| 21 | The Dallas Cowboys , who were beaten by Green Bay , and the Detroit Lions , who lost to the Minnesota Vikings , remain without a win . |
| 22 | To think otherwise would be to succumb to the glamour and particularity with which seniority was invested by the boys themselves ; the critical fact was that , in the fullness of time , little boys who were beaten by big ones might reasonably expect to do the beating themselves . |
| 23 | Lancashire were beaten by three men named in the England squad for Lord 's although Essex 's star man , John Stephenson , is currently out of favour with the selectors . |
| 24 | Both fashions occurred in an era of desperate shortage and hardship for millions ; zoot-suited dandies were beaten by angry mobs on the streets of New York and the style was finally banned . |
| 25 | In the early hours of yesterday morning they were beaten in four sets by Patrick McEnroe and Jim Grabb , and then some 13 hours later they fell 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to the Australians Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzman , who as a result qualified for the semi-finals . |
| 26 | In the early hours of yesterday morning they were beaten in four sets by Patrick McEnroe and Jim Grabb , and then some 13 hours later they fell 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to the Australians Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzman , who as a result qualified for the semi-finals . |
| 27 | He reappeared in the following year 's repeat win over Aberavon , but by the time Swansea were beaten in 1976 his knee had left him idle again . |
| 28 | The former world champion had saved four match points in rallying from 2–5 in the fourth set , which he eventually won on a tie-break , before winning the fifth set 6–0 but he had little to offer in the doubles , when he and Eric Jelen were beaten in straight sets . |
| 29 | MANCHESTER UNITED star Darren Ferguson was sent off in disgrace as Scotland were beaten in this European Under-21 championship qualifier at Sursee last night . |
| 30 | So long as they have neighbours within 12″ the Snotlings are not affected by the psychology rules and they do not need to take break tests when they are beaten in hand-to-hand combat . |