Example sentences of "of players " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise in the quality of French tennis over the last 20 years , culminating in the emergence of players such as Yannick Noah , Henri Leconte and now Guy Forget , coupled with the transformation of the French Open at Roland Garros into what the majority of players regard as the best organised of the four Grand Slams ( even though Wimbledon remains favourite as to the one they most want to win ) are due very largely to the leadership he has shown . |
| 2 | The rise in the quality of French tennis over the last 20 years , culminating in the emergence of players such as Yannick Noah , Henri Leconte and now Guy Forget , coupled with the transformation of the French Open at Roland Garros into what the majority of players regard as the best organised of the four Grand Slams ( even though Wimbledon remains favourite as to the one they most want to win ) are due very largely to the leadership he has shown . |
| 3 | I think I would be top of any seed 's list of players they would prefer not to have in their section . ’ |
| 4 | The field of players , and the facilities they enjoy , are far superior to some tournaments on the world tour offering much more prize money . |
| 5 | His skills as a coach ( the England player Philip Sharpe was one of his discoveries ) , his knowledge of players , his presence at cricket 's great occasions and his ability to entice the great and the famous to play for his occasional XIs combined to make him , in his own way , one of the game 's celebrities . |
| 6 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 7 | Widnes were back to a full complement of players by the time Tony Thorniley scored Warrington 's second , again from an inspired Mackey pass , but the visitors were powerless to prevent the centre reaching the line from 25 yards . |
| 8 | Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent . |
| 9 | Professionalism was legalised partly in order to place a limit on the bargaining power of players . |
| 10 | Elements of a morally uplifting ‘ rational recreation ’ tradition survived in football despite the payment of players . |
| 11 | Wages rose with inflation after the war to £8 a week but only a minority of players on a club 's books received this . |
| 12 | Possibly the widening class-consciousness of militant trade unionism within the Edwardian working class , especially considering the number of players from mining origins , may also have helped encourage this flurry of ‘ industrial ’ action . |
| 13 | The popular press could not compete and has been pushed more and more into the ‘ human interest ’ dimension , interviewing friends and relations of players , stoking up dressing-room feuds and seizing upon the sex lives of the young , virile , and wayward . |
| 14 | The older code , which put the integrity of players and the game itself above money , had been abandoned . |
| 15 | Violence of different kinds has certainly been endemic in sport and fighting between groups of players or spectators is nothing new . |
| 16 | For the time being , Baggio seems to be more in opposition to Donadoni than to Giannini , since the last mentioned has always seemed to be a favourite son of Vicini , one of that select group of players who matriculated along with the manager from the Italian under-21 side to the senior team . |
| 17 | What is happening , too late unfortunately , is that the Kiwis are starting to demonstrate what a fine squad of players they have . |
| 18 | But this raises the fundamental issue of players accepting referees ' decisions . |
| 19 | While there was nothing extraordinary about the goal , Chapman turning in a free-kick Clough had driven through a crowd of players towards the near post , the reason the free-kick was awarded left Everton disgruntled . |
| 20 | While there was nothing extraordinary about the goal itself , Chapman turning the ball in at the near post after Clough had driven an indirect free-kick low through a crowd of players , the circumstances in which the kick had been given were a little odd and left Everton looking apoplectic . |
| 21 | WHEN delegates of the Whitbread Merit Table clubs took time off from their deliberations over leagues last week to enjoy a day out at the University Match , they took the opportunity to complain to Cardiff about the legions of players who have made the journey to the Arms Park in recent months . |
| 22 | But they deny that car-park money or the like is finding its way into the pockets of players . |
| 23 | With both Cardiff and Newport dormant in recent years , other clubs have benefited from the movement of players ; talent has been spread over a wider area . |
| 24 | Restrictions on footballers in Eastern Europe playing abroad have gradually been eased as Poles , Soviets and others have come to regard the export of players as a useful means of acquiring hard currency . |
| 25 | It is the genius of Shakespeare that his plays offer plenty of fully written parts to a band of players . |
| 26 | In Macbeth , for example , the organisation of numeracy of players , hits and rests , is magnificent . |
| 27 | Its locality , outline and centroid may define a town centre , a kitchen , a command module or a cassette player , but within it a hierarchy of players and activities will emerge . |
| 28 | The 120-strong party , made up of players , board officials , journalists , wives , supporters and an under-19 team , will fly in from New York on a specially chartered South African Airways plane . |
| 29 | Avon have withdrawn from the West regional rounds of the NatWest Women 's County Championship following a disappointing turn-out of players and internal problems , writes Cathy Harris . |
| 30 | ‘ They play three at the back , but the ability of players like Awford enables them to use it as a springboard for attack as well as a defensive system . |