Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] division " in BNC.
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| 1 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 2 | DESPITE forecasts last August that this would be the most competitive rugby league season in history , the only issues likely to be left in doubt tomorrow night are who will accompany Swinton down into the Second Division next season and the final line-up for the Premiership competitions . |
| 3 | It will require a miracle for Bedford to retain their status , even allowing for their few plus points — a top New Zealand coach , the arrival of a useful looking New Zealand scrum-half , and the fact that if the three national divisions are expanded , as proposed , next season , only one team will be going down from the First Division . |
| 4 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 5 | Another point-less return really would leave them squinting for light deep down in the Second Division 's dark vale . |
| 6 | Its looking good for both Swindon and Oxford , but down in the third division Hereford are having a tough old time … they 're just four points and four places off the bottom of the table … on Saturday they missed out at Lincoln … they lost two-nil |
| 7 | Gloucester won 14 -3 and Nottingham dropped down to the second division … this time around the Kingsholm men are looking over their shoulders … but those relegation worries were eased last Saturday with that 18-6 win over London Irish … tonight it 's a club match no league points to be won or lost but Gloucester want every win they can get |
| 8 | I have played all the way through to the First Division , where we lasted only one season before relegation . |
| 9 | If we do n't , the knock-on effect will be felt by EVERY club in the land , from the Premier through to the Third Division . |
| 10 | If we do n't , the knock-on effect will be felt by EVERY club in the land , from the Premier through to the Third Division . |
| 11 | It was Ossie who took Swindon up into the 1st division — or so he thought . |
| 12 | The teams are in a confident frame of mind knowing that their starting five of Findlay , Tony Hanson , Patrick Sellers , Ian Burlison and Rob Harland can match any line up in the second division . |
| 13 | It 's possible , mathematically , that Hartlepool will end up in the Second Division next season . |
| 14 | ‘ My main aim will be to stay in the team and help Ipswich finish high up in the First Division . ’ |
| 15 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
| 16 | The Borderers , coached by Jim Telfer , beat Glasgow High/Kelvinside 27–16 at the Greenyards in their final game to win the major championship and hold off Edinburgh Academicals ' challenge , Kelso , relegated last season , moved back up to the first division . |
| 17 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
| 18 | Last year of course they did superbly , they beat Southend who were then in the fourth division , and look what 's happened to them , they 've gone up to the third division . |
| 19 | Hull moved out of the Second Division relegation zone for the first time since mid-September with a 2-1 win over Plymouth last night — their fourth win in their last six games and their third successive victory under the new manager Stan Ternant . |
| 20 | And it was only after John had given up playing that Palace at last fell out of the 1st Division , so it was only right that in September 1974 the club gave him a richly deserved Testimonial for his magnificent services . |
| 21 | On the other side of Ayrshire , Ally MacLeod discovered how painfully short his Ayr United side are of becoming genuine challengers for promotion out of the First Division . |
| 22 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 23 | LUTON responded to tragedy with a battling performance to move out of the First Division 's bottom three . |
| 24 | CONNOISSEURS of the bizarre will recall the night Sheffield Wednesday players spent on wintry moorland , one of their ex-commando trainer 's ploys to get them out of the Third Division . |
| 25 | At the time , Don Revie was fighting to keep Leeds out of the Third Division . |
| 26 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 27 | John Payne says the ambition now is to get back into the first division |
| 28 | Beginning their new season in the third division of the Paisley & District League , the Stoddard Carpets football team are fighting to get back into the second division where they were last year . |
| 29 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 30 | The former skipper had the misfortune of conceding the own-goal which gave Swindon a play-off victory at Wembley two years ago but he still led the team out in the First Division the next season . |