Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the sports " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contact can be made with the clubs during the Sports Fair in Freshers ' week or through the Sports Union office . |
| 2 | My son , he wrote , moving on to a new page , my son , who is a keen footballer and a passionate supporter of our local team , Brighton and Hove Albion ( the Seagulls ) , was surprised the other day when , looking in on one of the team 's training sessions in the sports pavilion of the University of Sussex , he . |
| 3 | Thanks to the Sports Council there are opportunities around the country for almost every kind of sport , with 50-plus beginners especially welcome . |
| 4 | Certainly the people I got to know during my fifteen months on the sports circuit for the Sunday Correspondent readily confirmed my own impression that McIlvanney is the best in the business . |
| 5 | In their annual report , ATP say ‘ In order to remain competitive with other countries in the sports and entertainment field , the ATP must always look ahead and find new ways to expand our game and our business . |
| 6 | To foul up the analysis further , Kane 's alleged physical characteristics are meant to predispose blacks to the sports demanding speed and strength while whites , because of their body make-ups , are rendered liable to go for endurance events . |
| 7 | As we work , we can look out of the window now and then and see the students doing physical exercises and practising sports for the sports day on Monday — they 're very keen on physical jerks here , and at Peking we used to be woken up at 7 a.m. to find the Chinese staff doing P.E . |
| 8 | In the week leading up to the Fayre the committee spends most days at the Sports ground doing the million and one last minute jobs and testing the games . |
| 9 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 10 | Fortunately , some well-known figures in the sports and pop world are helping to do this . |
| 11 | The cultural challenge is to move these stories from the sports page to the business page . |
| 12 | Are there any questions on the sports pitches ? |
| 13 | If you fell from the top of the ropes in the sports hall this afternoon would you go to heaven or hell ? ’ |
| 14 | The small Year Niner usually looks a bit blank — possibly because she has never considered the possibility of either heaven OR hell lying at the foot of the ropes in the sports hall — and responds with a vague , ‘ Uh ? ’ |
| 15 | The truth , since that seems to be the painful area we are now entering , is that when I was last measured , which was in the fifth form at school , I entered the official records at 5ft 8½in , thanks largely to a tempestuous hairstyle , and by the cunning device of raising myself onto my toes as the sports master lowered the wooden measure . |
| 16 | If you give me the details of the sports orders Adrian I 'll |
| 17 | Joanna Grenside 's car was found less than 100 yards from the sports centre where she was due to take a class . |
| 18 | Schools can obtain further details from the sports centre , Talbot Street . |
| 19 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
| 20 | Students are automatically members of the Sports Union . |
| 21 | The local bands used to play for the morning processions , in the afternoon they played selections at the sports and in the evening they would compete among themselves . |
| 22 | Of 41 positive drugs tests by the Sports Council in 1990/91 , up to 21 are believed to have been accidental , sportsmen who absorbed banned substances while taking medication for illnesses of various sorts . |
| 23 | Tennis : Indoor and outdoor courts at the Sports Centre . |
| 24 | Organisers are seeking a Royal patron for the event and have formed a charity to raise £100,000 , which they hope will be increased by grants from the Sports Council and private business . |
| 25 | FOR a number of weeks leading up to last Sunday 's Dublin v Derry semi-final the name of Tommy Carr provided scope for hundreds of column inches in the sports pages of a section of the media . |
| 26 | Coun Mrs Nilsson says residents will fight to keep developers off the sports ground . |
| 27 | His words were echoed by representatives from the sports clubs . |
| 28 | Facilities at the Sports Centre include a sports hall , ten squash courts , circuit and weight training rooms , a combat salle , archery and rifle ranges , boxing and table tennis studios . |
| 29 | In 1986 Aids sufferer Martin Roberts , of Criccieth , Gwynedd , was banned from public swimming pools by the Sports Council of Wales and Arfon and Anglesey councils after he appeared on television talking about his condition . |