Example sentences of "beat [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the other game Swansea , the Heineken League Division One leaders , will be involved in their third successive semi-final against Newport , the team they beat 13-9 in the 1979 final .
2 I 'd set it five or 10 beats lower till I could complete a 20–30 minute run without bleeping — then set it higher . ’
3 Town Crier Alan Booth beat 75 schoolchildren when they carried out an experiment on shouting .
4 No oh I 've got two pairs , beats that .
5 And why did it have to be this man above all others who made her heart beat that little bit faster ?
6 In LCFA Challenge Cup second round replays , Aigburth P. Hall ( Peter Jones 2 , Jimmy Comer , Tommy Manning ) won 4-2 at Roma ( Chris Lee , Steve Parry ) and after a 3-3 extra time draw Liverpool Nalgo beat Collegiate OB 3-2 on penalties .
7 ‘ He 's a drunkin' auld bigot. lust last week he beat bloody hell out of some old tramp all legless like and pissed over himself .
8 A short-eared owl beat low over the salt marsh on long rounded wings .
9 This was apparently a re-announcement ’ and Grove beat hasty retreat .
10 The motorcyclist beat this time by five minutes , but conditions were unusual ; many institutions such as the University and the Art College remained closed for a second day of holiday , which meant traffic was unusually light .
11 But nowadays they have m machines , high ratio machines which beat this dough up in three minutes .
12 Meanwhile , Frano Botica helped himself to 24 points , two tries and eight goals , as Wigan beat French champions , Carcassonne 52–0 — and then admitted his job was on the line .
13 Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot .
14 The only German in the field , Michael Stich , beat top seed Stefan Edberg to ensure continuing home-country interest in the absence of Boris Becker , who is giving the tournament a miss because of tiredness .
15 A team of 12 and 13-year-olds from Dowdale School in Cumbria beat top class entries from sixth formers in North-East schools to take the £500 first place in the Northern Development Company 's Quality Counts competition .
16 On Saturday , Witton beat Marine 4–1 to complete a 6–3 aggregate victory in their semi-final clash at the Merseyside club 's ground .
17 Llanelli , the Schweppes Cup-holders , return to Pontypool today for a quarter-final tie against the team they beat 36–15 in last week 's Heineken League game .
18 Andrew Richardson beat Stefana Bullaasi 6-1 , 6-2 and Oxford 's Tim Henman beat another Italian , Aldo Pagini , 6-4 , 5-7 , 6-4 .
19 Mr Husseini beat another cleric , Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Abou Torabi , who had been a prisoner of war in Iraq for many years , and Dr Abbas Sheibani , a former minister .
20 He beat another Aintree legend — Manifesto , a magnificent horse that ran in eight Grand Nationals , winning two , finishing third three times , and fourth once .
21 Scorers for Norway were Flo ( Sheff Utd ) with a tap-in from a corner-kick , Fjortoft with his special right-left move alone with the keeper form a back-flick header from Flo and finally Johnsen ( from Lyn , Oslo a team Leeds beat 10–0 way back then in the european cup ) with a header from a corner kick .
22 One of those who wants the young Pakistani punished is none other than the man he so narrowly beat 10-15 , 6-15 , 15-4 , 15-11 , 15-10 in the final , Chris Dittmar .
23 Venomously left wing and solidly behind the eminently worthy Cable Street Beat Anti Fascist organisation .
24 Venomously left wing and solidly behind the eminently worthy Cable Street Beat Anti Fascist organisation .
25 Nothing beats personal advice on what shape and style of hat will suit or flatter , and we have planned with Harrods a week of hats .
26 This hard work recently paid off for Marauder John Elliott from the Teesside branch , when he beat thirteen other pest control companies to gain a prestigious contract with the army at Catterick .
27 Nothing beats real English strawberries , at their best now , all ruby red and with a fabulous flavour
28 Steven , of Borehamwood , Herts , beat hundreds of children to win the award , launched by the Patients Aid Association to mark the Queen 's 40th anniversary .
29 He beat hundreds of rival customers to win possession of one of the metallic blue XJ220s — the world 's fastest sports car .
30 TWO British housewives beat hundreds of professional cooks to pick up first and second prizes in the Indian Chef of the Year contest .
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