Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [noun] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 2 | ERIC Cantona last night threw Leeds a European Cup lifeline by declaring that he could be fit for the second leg against Stuttgart at Elland Road next week . |
| 3 | But just three days before the England selectors name their team for the second Test against Australia at Lord 's , Fletcher was not too concerned about Gower 's injury-enforced absence . |
| 4 | NEIL FOSTER , recalled by England for the second Test against Australia at Lord 's this week , was today fined £250 by his county Essex for his ‘ stump kicking ’ outburst . |
| 5 | The way was thus cleared for the names of Hurd and her eventual successor , Major , to be entered for the second ballot against Heseltine . |
| 6 | ANDY GOODWAY and David Hobbs , two former Oldham forwards , were yesterday rehabilitated at international level when Malcolm Reilly named a squad of 21 for the first Test against New Zealand on Saturday week . |
| 7 | For all that , the way in which he was publicly rebuked by Peter May , the chairman of Selectors , after returning home , and appointed only for the first Test against India , annoyed many people by its insensitivity and seemed to be about as productive as the shooting of Admiral Byng on his quarterdeck . |
| 8 | Graham Thorpe , unlucky not to be chosen for the first Test against Australia , issued a timely reminder to the England selectors with an unbeaten 90 as Surrey struggled against joint championship leaders Glamorgan at the Oval . |
| 9 | He and Washbrook once put on 350 for the first wicket against Sussex . |
| 10 | John Clinch ( 83 ) and Paul Harris ( 82 ) put on 170 for the first wicket against Stowmarket , who were skittled out for only 85 thanks to a burst of 4–1–7–5 by Richard Pybus . |
| 11 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |
| 12 | In August 1990 , the Securities Association , the self-regulatory body covering share dealers and advisers , acted for the first time against a broker found guilty of ‘ churning ’ his clients ' portfolios . |
| 13 | They had the chances against Linfield in the first half , and both Michael O'Hagan and Martin McGaughey , playing for the first time against his old club , went close . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough 's new style pairings , tried for the first time against Sheffield last week , gave greater strength in depth , and Knott has named an unchanged team . |
| 15 | Liverpool have been without five of the powerful line-up Mr Souness selected for the first match against Portsmouth in the intervening League games . |
| 16 | He reached three figures , for the fourth time against England , in only 130 minutes and 87 balls . |
| 17 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 18 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 19 | Newton , who celebrated by clubbing in London 's West End , has played in every position for Chelsea — including goalkeeper for part of a reserve game — and Porterfield must be tempted now to leave him at the front for the next test against Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | Natal needed seven runs to win off the last ball against Transvaal in the semi finals of our Benson & Hedges day/night series . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ We were three down after the first leg against Stuttgart , but there was a great feeling we could do it . |
| 22 | Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks ' scamper through Japan in 1987 ; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year ; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990 ; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland . |
| 23 | OPENER David Boon hit a five-hour century yesterday as Australia struggled on the fourth day of the first Test against the West Indies in Brisbane . |
| 24 | The slow , deliberate verse movement ; the invocation of such abstractions as ‘ fortitude and patient chear ’ ; the careful avoidance of metaphorical expressions ; the weight of moral earnestness ; the balancing of word against word , of phrase against phrase , of the first half against the second half of the poem — in listing these characteristics we move back fifty years . |
| 25 | We arrived to see the tops of the first ladder against the wall . |
| 26 | Yesterday he left out of the second Test against the West Indies his second humiliation of the winter after being 12th man for the first Test . |
| 27 | OPENER Roshan Mahanama scored a masterful 109 as Sri Lanka made 303-6 on the first day of the second Test against New Zealand in Colombo . |
| 28 | Wasps went 5-1 down at the end of the second period against Barons before Anthony Johnson and Rick Brebant pulled back three goals . |
| 29 | That was the first day of the fourth Test against England . |
| 30 | Urging the country to unite behind her after the trauma of the sixth uprising against her government in less than four years , Ms Aquino said she was determined not to allow ‘ any aggressor to wrest our freedom and democracy away from us . |