Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a sports " in BNC.
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1 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
2 | Until now , Livingston has consistently protested total innocence of how he could have provided a positive sample in a Sports Council test just before the Games . |
3 | President José Eduardo dos Santos joined an estimated 40,000 people who took part in an ecumenical thanksgiving Mass in a sports stadium in the capital , Luanda , on June 2 , marking the end of 16 years of civil war . |
4 | Several thousand gun-carrying Afrikaner farmers gathered to listen to Mr Viljoen last week in a sports stadium in Potchefstroom ; they called for war if militant blacks did not stop killing white farmers . |
5 | A GUNMAN screamed for mercy after murdering a teenager in a sports shop , a court heard yesterday . |
6 | One night , at the age of twenty-six , she was the victim of an appalling accident , when she was passenger in a sports car which ran out of control and somersaulted , landing upside down . |
7 | Also on offer are Lucian Freud 's ‘ Man in a Sports Shirt ’ and ‘ Korsika ( Sonne ) ’ by Gerhard Richter , which is estimated at £70–90,000 ( $125–160,000 ) , as well as a large collection of works by Marcel Broodhaers . |
8 | A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveyed chaotic scenes at an emergency processing centre in a sports hall in the northern town of Tuzla , where about 2,000 people are sleeping on blankets on the floor , and appealed for immediate international help . |
9 | ‘ If you have a row of garish shirts in all sorts of colours on a rack in a sports shop and one in just black , which one is going to stick out ? |
10 | Recently , Moore had been commentating for London-based Capital Radio at football matches , as well as working as a partner in a sports marketing company , preparing for the 1994 World Cup . |
11 | He is a partner in a sports marketing company , Mitchell-Moore Associates , and returned recently from the United States where he was working on 1994 World Cup projects . |