Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] race " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , he was soon talking to God on the big white telephone but that did n't stop his band-mates from trying to drink seven pints of water in 30 minutes , followed by a dry Weetabix race upon which the Kinkies nearly choked to death , thus depriving the world of a hot new item . |
| 2 | across in swindon yesterday eight hundred of the country 's fittest athletes were competing in one of the summer 's toughest events … the two twenty triathlon … a fifty mile race of endurance |
| 3 | National , a forty horse race more or less is n't it , thirty |
| 4 | WOMEN cyclists from countries including Russia , will be in the region over Easter for a four-day stage race on the Suffolk-Essex border . |
| 5 | to have one dog there is quite something … to have two in a six dog race is something special … |
| 6 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 7 | The key comparison here involves the areas of sympatry , which allows us to catch a glimpse of the dynamics of evolution and to test the view that cuckoos and hosts are engaged in a coevolutionary arms race , with cuckoos being one step ahead in areas of recent sympatry . |
| 8 | The next day the princess will attend the launch of a national balloon race at 3pm in Holyrood Park , Edinburgh , which is being held to celebrate the centenary appeal of the Scottish Children 's League . |
| 9 | A top woman jockey is critically ill after being crushed by her horse in a National Hunt race . |
| 10 | From my present point of view the question of whether the manufacturers on opposite sides of a human arms race are enemies of each other or identical with each other is irrelevant , and interestingly so . |
| 11 | The lower dam has been breached and most of the signs of its previous existence are gone , while the upper dam , though it still has a fine water race below it , is silted over and is now a peaty , muddy reed-bed . |
| 12 | By using the tilt it is possible for a white water race , for example , to steer down a rapid whilst still using powerful forward strokes rather than having to use slower sweep strokes . |
| 13 | My first concept , particularly for using a driver , is of a three horse race . |
| 14 | Mueller is the oldest , the most successful and probably the best known of all currently active downhillers , so the sight of him volunteering to do the donkey work in a one-horse FIS race was enough to humble me into removing my skis and following him , along with 138 other racers ! |
| 15 | You set the a great egg race type topic to work on for three weeks . |
| 16 | The electronic and acoustic weapons systems of bats , which we discussed in Chapter 2 , have all the finely tuned sophistication that we expect from the end-products of a long arms race . |
| 17 | Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race . |
| 18 | However , there was nothing to stimulate Branson 's interest more than the prospect of a good contract race against a rival company — Chrysalis , Polydor or CBS . |
| 19 | In a hectic sidecar race British crews filled the first three places with Kevin Webster winning from Kieron Kavanagh and David Hoskin . |
| 20 | In a hectic sidecar race British crews filled the first three places with Kevin Webster winning from Kieron Kavanagh and David Hoskin . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Labour insist Cheltenham is now a 3 horse race with issues not personalities at the forefront . |
| 22 | In the case of a biological arms race , on the other hand , we can usually see only the end-products . |
| 23 | A nuclear arms race is a good recipe for national bankruptcy but it is very profitable for those who design and manufacture the weapons . |
| 24 | For the first time since 1982 she did n't take part in a short-handed ocean race , a form of competition to which she has become healthily addicted . |
| 25 | There was a zooming motor race on and Maxim simply had n't even heard it until then . |
| 26 | Such leaders are all members of a spiritual relay race handing on the messianic baton it seems . |
| 27 | A SICK Bosnian boy took a step closer to fleeing to Britain for specialist treatment after a fund-raising balloon race was a soar-away success . |
| 28 | A small antelope races away into the bush . |
| 29 | The days training ended with a gruelling stretcher race across an assault course . |
| 30 | Then he flew to Japan to run the 440K from Hiroshima to Nagasaki in a new record time of just over 57 hours , and moved on to Siberia for a 13-day stage race covering 50K a day . |