Example sentences of "in [art] first test " in BNC.
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| 1 | His team , World Cup finalists and dotted with household idols , were taken to the cleaners by a bunch of Australian students and farmers in the first Test , and the second Test at Lille promises to be not only a trial of Fouroux 's incumbency as coach but also his tactical shrewdness in selection . |
| 2 | In 1980–1 , in the first Test to be played on his home ground in Antigua , there was never any doubt that he was going to mark the occasion with a century , and , as we shall see , when England returned five years later he marked that occasion in the most spectacular fashion . |
| 3 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 4 | Yet after being annihilated in the first Test , England showed they could still fight . |
| 5 | MARTIN DUGARD rode unbeaten on his home track as England outclassed Australia 73–35 in the first Test at Oxford last night . |
| 6 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 7 | In the First Test , the Scottish first-time tackling had been excellent , but in Brisbane they allowed the Wallabies to run a couple of yards too far and they paid a high price . |
| 8 | Eight days before the choice Mains ' face seemed set in a state of shock , for the All Blacks had just escaped 24–21 from defeat by Ireland in the First Test . |
| 9 | The All Blacks won a sterner Third Test against the World side , almost went base-over-apex in the First Test against Ireland , then came back so powerfully the Second Test was a 59–6 mis-match . |
| 10 | The contrast is even more marked when the comparisons are limited to the four Saturday matches against Canterbury ( admittedly one , Richard Wallace , suffering a broken jaw from an Andy Earl swipe ) , four against Auckland , two in the First Test , three in the second . |
| 11 | Had it finished the day after the Irish rattled the All Blacks in the First Test at Carisbrook then Murphy would have taken his men home in high humour . |
| 12 | In fact Manawatu shattered the Irish with their 58–24 win , and the tourists were in no mood to outwit a rampant All Black side stung by their faults in the First Test . |
| 13 | I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month . |
| 14 | Paul Taylor 's left-arm pace could be valuable at Calcutta , where the ball tends to swing , but for him to play in the first Test after barely a month of his first trip overseas would be a gamble . |
| 15 | HEAVY rains gave way long enough for New Zealand to declare at 325–3 yesterday in the first Test at against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo . |
| 16 | WEST INDIAN umpire Steve Bucknor stepped in to prevent crowd trouble getting out of hand as India ground their way to a 23-run first innings lead in the first Test against South Africa here yesterday . |
| 17 | Manjrekar , who in the first Test struggled for 36 minutes for a duck , batted nine minutes short of five hours before India , 31 ahead on first innings , declared at 312–8 . |
| 18 | Not only has that disc problem proved frustrating , but so has the inactivity temporarily imposed by a series of exploratory tests to assess the damage : ‘ Having been injured in the second tour match against Queensland I got back to full fitness , played in the First Test and was looking forward to the second . |
| 19 | Fifty-two points conceded in the First Test , 54 in the second . |
| 20 | There was a big surge of local optimism when Martin Crowe won what appeared to be a very important toss — not that winning it in the first Test had done NZ much good . |
| 21 | But , as in the first Test , Morrison removed him on the stroke of stumps , this time with a yorker , to leave honours even at 239 for 5 . |
| 22 | For Weir , who like Kerr had a modest tour , the biggest personal highlights came when he scored 37 and 40 in the first Test match . |
| 23 | : WHEN Ian Smith caught Graham Gooch off the bowling of Danny Morrison in the first Test match last winter he broke a New Zealand wicketkeeping record which had stood for 45 years . |
| 24 | In the first test zone , the well produced oil at a rate of 1,972 barrels of oil per day and 3.7 million cubic feet of gas . |
| 25 | He toured Namibia with Ireland two seasons ago , coming on in the First Test as a replacement for Simon Geoghegan . |
| 26 | And if yesterday 's result is followed by defeat in the first Test at Old Trafford , the clamour for change at the top will reach a crescendo . |
| 27 | Defeat in the first Test , which starts on Thursday week , would leave many people asking : ‘ Why wait that long ? ’ |
| 28 | In the first test , we applied acoustic-phonetic constraints by introducing lexical stress into the representations . |
| 29 | Gooch was yesterday confirmed as skipper for the rest of Ashes series despite England 's defeat in the first Test . |
| 30 | It nearly happened in the first Test . |