Example sentences of "beat [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare Wood , who beat Gomer in the national singles final at Telford last weekend , replaces her in a team completed by Jo Durie and Anne Hobbs . |
| 2 | Military bureaucracy is something new for an organisation that can beat all-comers at the civilian variety . |
| 3 | Having beaten both Worcestershire and Warwickshire 3–2 , Durham and Cleveland needed to beat Cumbria in the final match . |
| 4 | An inquest in the town was told yesterday that Swales , who had drunk six pints , had been seen at least once before trying to beat trains over the unmanned crossing . |
| 5 | The big obstacle to Britain gaining the gold medal was the Russian favourite Aleksandr Yevgeniev , a man who had set a world best earlier in the season and who had beaten Mafe at the initial World Indoor Games in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy one year before to win the gold medal . |
| 6 | He , then the most powerful and feared man in western Europe , was being pressured by someone who was the less-than-firmly-established leader of one of the poorest , weakest states in Europe ; who considered Nationalist Spain had done the Axis a great favour in beating communism in the Civil War ; who appeared to have forgotten the extent of German aid in achieving that victory ; who offered to contribute next to nothing to the German war effort ; and who , to crown everything , expected to receive military supplies and territory in return , at best , for vague promises . |
| 7 | Both potting department sides beat teams from the dipping house and glost warehouse in a league table to make it to the final . |
| 8 | Just beating Higgins to the finishing line was world champion Stephen Hendry , happily back to form after his 10-4 defeat by Steve Davis in last weekend 's European Open final . |
| 9 | An all America Foundation final would allow Koch to optimise his two boats , to cope with the threat of the New Zealand and Italian challengers , rather than beating Conner in the 13-race final . |