Example sentences of "[be] beat [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're beaten by the vibration . ’ |
| 2 | That 's the difference between arts and science , because you 've actually got something there you can look at and study , so you 're talking about facts , whereas in the arts side it 's all airy-fairy and you 're beating about the bush a lot . |
| 3 | McKay collected points on all five climbs in yesterday 's stage and can not now be beaten for the overall mountains title . |
| 4 | Narain Dutt Tewari of Uttar Pradesh could be a contender if he wins the state election being held alongside the parliamentary one ; but he may be beaten by the BJP . |
| 5 | K : ‘ A lot of it is determination not to be beaten by the system . |
| 6 | There is now a good chance that he will be beaten in the run-off next Sunday unless he can persuade enough first-round abstentionists to turn out to support him . |
| 7 | Pétain was also a disciple of attrition , but in an entirely different sense from Joffre and Haig with their inhumanly simple calculations that the Germans could be beaten in the long run through losing man for man , by virtue of the Allied superiority in cannon fodder . |
| 8 | Some of Gladstone 's fellow competitors obviously could n't care less about being beaten into the minor placings , but fellow breeders were more forthcoming . |
| 9 | A lawyer and former oilfield worker , he was head of government for nine years in the 1950s and 1960s under British colonial rule before being beaten at the polls by a charismatic rival , Mr Eric Gairy . |
| 10 | Egyptians have recent memories of being beaten at the hands of western-backed armies . |
| 11 | Some witnesses to the incident , however , claimed that Garcia was unarmed and was fired upon while being beaten on the ground . |
| 12 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 13 | The London middleweight Rod Douglas , who has been in hospital since being beaten by the British champion Herol Graham two weeks ago , is expected to leave hospital ‘ in a week or so ’ , according to his manager Mickey Duff , who said last night : ‘ He is going to make a complete recovery . |
| 14 | I also hated being beaten by the wind and was frustrated by my lack of progress . |
| 15 | The Army team 's last hope in the Inter-Service Championship disappeared at Aldershot last week when they lost 2–0 to the Royal Navy , after being beaten by the R.A.F. the week before . |
| 16 | However he must understand the indignity Leeds fans suffered during eight seasons being beaten by the likes of Shrewsbury and even ( gulp ) Bradford City . |
| 17 | Once a way of beating the British winter it 's now being beaten by the upsurge in all-weather pitches outside . |
| 18 | Everton boss Howard Kendall bought Rideout after being beaten in the chase for £1 million hitman Dublin by Alex Ferguson . |
| 19 | In fact , of the major industrialized countries the UK is currently being beaten in the world prison population stakes only by Canada , the former USSR , South Africa and ( the current world champion ) the United States of America . |
| 20 | But this man here is obviously going to say he 's seen no cruelty , he h obviously has n't seen the circus madness video that w was released by I A W A and Animals Defenders this year , where there is an absolutely horrendous scene of a llama being beaten around the head and chest . |
| 21 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 22 | The women were all found in their own homes after being beaten around the head with a hammer . |
| 23 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 24 | When Tom McKean and Yvonne Murray were beaten at the Olympics , what observation did we get from BBC 's commentators ? |
| 25 | The Welsh fly-half hacked on after a sloppy pass by Bray went to ground and two defenders were beaten to the touchdown . |
| 26 | Several hooligans were beaten to the ground . |
| 27 | Not for the first time , Kevin Blackwell chose to sprint rashly from his goal ; both he and Dixon were beaten by the bounce , and Kevin Wilson outstripped his marker to score . |
| 28 | But with a third crew , in the shape of a freshmen 's eight , participating for the first time , the race was restarted and the freshmen were beaten by the surviving senior eight by just over two lengths from Putney to Mortlake . |
| 29 | Thousands who joined the protest were beaten by the security forces , who fired into the air . |
| 30 | Dubliner Paul Staunton played the ball into the box , Linfield had two chances to clear , but were beaten by the bounce while Ultan McCabe stuck to his task and stabbed in a shot from eight yards |