Example sentences of "[art] [adj] grand [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that 's the big success that everyone predicts , Donington could keep the European Grand Prix and emerge as a rival to Silverstone when the latter 's contract for the British Grand Prix runs out in l996 . |
| 2 | ‘ Awarding the European Grand Prix to Donington is also a shot across our bows . |
| 3 | The Nurburgring returned to the Grand Prix Calendar in 1984 when Alain Prost won the European Grand Prix . |
| 4 | BRITISH Formula One driver Damon Hill predicted yesterday that the Donington Park lap record would be smashed by as much as five seconds at the European Grand Prix on Easter Sunday , 11 April . |
| 5 | Roughly speaking , the quality is determined by location in the vineyard , which can be divided into bands : the most northerly band , elevated at a height of between 180 and 220 metres , comprises some of the finest grand cru slopes in all Champagne and represents about a third of Bouzy 's hectarage ; below this is a wide strip situated at a height of between 160 and 180 metres which , in my estimation , should hold the rank of a top premier cru ; the lowest band , at about 170 metres , runs around the flat northern edge of the village and produces vines of a markedly inferior quality . |
| 6 | AYRTON SENNA did all he could to keep the championship open by yesterday winning the Spanish Grand Prix which , after a week of accusations and exclusions , was something of an anti-climax . |
| 7 | He takes first place in the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez , although Alain Prost comes third to keep him on course for Senna 's title . |
| 8 | Mansell 's appeal , which involves only the fine and not his subsequent ban from the Spanish Grand Prix , will be heard on 18 October . |
| 9 | The Portuguese officials said they would hear the appeal on 18 October and confirmed the appeal only involved the fine and not the ban , which actually took effect at the Spanish Grand Prix last Sunday . |
| 10 | THE RESULT of the Spanish Grand Prix will not be nullified , even if an appeal by Nigel Mansell on his exclusion from it is successful , the president of FISA , the sport 's ruling body , said yesterday . |
| 11 | Mansell received the fine and a one-race ban , which FISA applied to the Spanish Grand Prix , after he illegally reversed his Ferrari in the pits and failed to stop at a black disqualification flag , waved three times during the race in Estoril on 24 September . |
| 12 | Liistro would not comment on Balestre 's announcement that FISA 's World Motor Sport Council had confirmed that Mansell 's ban from the Spanish Grand Prix would stand and agreed that the result of the race , won by Senna , would stand . |
| 13 | The Portuguese authorities had promised to hear Ferrari 's appeal against the fine next Wednesday , after which the FIA , the international automobile federation , was due to reach a decision on Ferrari 's appeal over Mansell 's ban from the Spanish Grand Prix which was staged on 1 October . |
| 14 | The FIA said last week that the results of the Spanish Grand Prix would remain , regardless of the outcome of any appeal . |
| 15 | He announced on the eve of the Spanish Grand Prix that he would contemplate retirement ‘ sooner rather than later ’ if the ban was not lifted . |
| 16 | Alain Prost launched into a new attack on team-mate Nigel Mansell after the Spanish Grand Prix last week . |
| 17 | The Barley Mow tends to be an instant poll of opinion on matters motor racing , and before the Spanish Grand Prix when a Mansell comeback was mooted , one regular announced that he hoped it was true because Nigel was the most exciting British driver anyone could remember . |
| 18 | The weeks leading up to the start of the European section of the championship at the Spanish Grand Prix on May 3 will see intensive work at their Woking headquarters . |
| 19 | It was September , the weekend of the Spanish Grand Prix , on the new Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona . |
| 20 | Hunt overtook Lauda to win the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama , the fourth of the championship , but then the season-long wrangling and arguing started when it was ruled that Hunt 's car was 1.8 cm ( 0.7 in ) too wide and he was stripped of his points , Lauda being promoted to first place . |
| 21 | The day after the race , the appeals committee reinstated the Englishman as winner of the Spanish Grand Prix . |
| 22 | In the taxi she discovered that Ace had won the Spanish Grand Prix , but only just . |
| 23 | Quite simply , the new Williams FW15 is the greatest Grand Prix car of all time … and it is what all the fuss is about in Formula One . |
| 24 | PETANQUE expert Pierre Bretenoux , our manager at the Lord Todd in Glasgow , captained his triples team , Les Pirons , to the Scottish Grand Prix title in five years . |
| 25 | The rest of the 1993 Grand Prix programme is : |
| 26 | ‘ We are established in many other sports , including the Johnnie Walker Ryder Cup , the RAC Rally , the Silk Cut Derby at Hickstead , the Benson and Hedges Snooker Masters at Wembley , the Volvo European PGA Tour and the British Grand Prix ’ , explains Delahunty , ‘ and although we have been in tennis since 1985 when Stella Artois first commissioned us , I still look at tennis as a growth area . |
| 27 | I was really impressed with that when he told a handful of us after the British Grand Prix that he was retiring at the end of the season . |
| 28 | While he mulled over his future , Rudd gradually sorted out the handling so that by July 1960 the Type 48 was good enough for Hill to put in a brilliant performance in the British Grand Prix , clawing his way into the lead after losing a third of a lap through stalling on the grid . |
| 29 | ‘ One shot showed a problem with the lever arms on the roll bar , so we had new ones made for the British Grand Prix at Aintree . |
| 30 | Lauda crops up again in Maurice Hamilton 's informative tome The British Grand Prix , an absorbing record of this country 's most important fixture on the international racing calendar . |