Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] gauntlet to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cerda interviewed those named in his testimony , including Wally Fuentes Morrison , and then threw down the gauntlet to Pinochet . |
| 2 | It proved so effective that Wedgwood 's QC suddenly threw down the gauntlet to those he had continually derided as the ‘ united aesthetes ’ saying , ‘ If you are so sure you can save this building , buy it yourselves for £1 . ’ |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Bobby Ferguson yesterday threw down the gauntlet to Sunderland 's Welsh international , Colin Pascoe . |
| 4 | SUPERMARKET giant Sainsbury threw down the gauntlet to M & S , Tesco and Safeway yesterday with another set of sparkling results . |
| 5 | KEVIN Keegan yesterday threw down the gauntlet to refreshed Newcastle winger Franz Carr . |
| 6 | The announcement that some routes in the area , which is visited by over 2,000 climbers a year , are to be equipped for ‘ environmental ’ reasons came in a press release that effectively throws down the gauntlet to the sport 's governing body . |
| 7 | Fresh from their success they have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the Group . |
| 8 | Since , in 1850 , the one bastion of that order which had escaped major trouble in 1848 was the Russian Empire , it was likely that at some point France would throw down the gauntlet to the tsar . |
| 9 | Mr Clarke threw down the gauntlet to a trio of Cabinet colleagues in the vanguard of demands for deeper spending cuts instead of higher taxes to tackle the projected £50 billion deficit . |
| 10 | Mr Clarke threw down the gauntlet to a trio of Cabinet colleagues in the vanguard of demands for deeper spending cuts instead of higher taxes to tackle the projected £50bn deficit . |
| 11 | WREXHAM manager Brian Flynn has thrown down the gauntlet to much-travelled striker Howard Gayle , who trained at the Racecourse for the first time yesterday . |
| 12 | The French prime minister has just thrown down a gauntlet to America on agricultural trade : he wants to rewrite the deal recently struck by America and the EC on farm exports ( see page 92 ) . |