Example sentences of "[noun pl] of players " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'm sorry he 's detracted from the performances of players like 17-year-old George Ndah and 21-year-old Rob Bowry , who were making their debuts .
2 He pushed two packets of Players and a box of matches through the bars while the German stood miserably in the background looking furtively up and down the wire .
3 Imaginative use of the photographs , which include pictures of players , their wives — even their babies , on tour , blend in nicely with the unobtrusive design , a factor which makes the book both readable and viewable .
4 There are few arrangements for instruments on the commercial market , not least because different churches have different combinations of players available to them .
5 Lists of players who had gone to the front were now being compiled , and by Aug 1915 Crawford himself realised that things could not continue as they were .
6 Indeed , they have a lot to show , including the skills of players like Ronan Rocks , Johnny McBride , Damien Hasson , Louis McPeake and Colm O'Loughlin .
7 We have heard cases of players being offered £5,000 to change clubs .
8 Violence of different kinds has certainly been endemic in sport and fighting between groups of players or spectators is nothing new .
9 Four separate groups of players , from Copenhagen , Durham , York and Lancaster , trundled their double decker pageant wagons in procession through the streets , stopping at four appointed places to perform their plays .
10 Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change .
11 ‘ There were loads of players who were just as good as Ian , but they did n't have his determination .
12 Football teams do n't go out and buy loads of players and then not buy a defence , do they ? ’
13 Aston Villa , Everton , Sheffield Wednesday , Sheffield United , West Ham and Millwall have made the first moves to look at one of the largest untapped areas of players in world football .
14 In the summer months companies of players often came to small towns , and in 1587 five different companies came .
15 There were new companies of players and Will now belonged to the Lord Chamberlain 's Men .
16 By 1590 , however , the number of new plays was such that this was no longer practicable and companies of players were required instead to submit manuscripts before the play was acted .
17 The companies of players did not perceive their plays as fixed texts , literary works which they felt some obligation to present accurately .
18 But they deny that car-park money or the like is finding its way into the pockets of players .
19 In his approach he includes sensitive ear to the parents of players .
20 Here we neglect all strategical niceties or memories of past encounters , considering only two simple kinds of players : those who always cooperate and those who always defect .
21 In this paper , we consider only two kinds of players : those who always cooperate , C , and those who always defect , D. No explicit attention is given to past or likely future encounters , so no memory is required and no complicated strategies arise .
22 ‘ Oh dear ’ — to express dismay at the less than gentlemanly antics of players .
23 The GUARDIAN last Saturday had an interesting bit of copy about clubs in the Premier football division being prepared to consider a ban on transfers of players between the clubs for virtually the whole of the soccer season .
24 By close observation we can also detect two classes of players amongst our best piano players .
25 Brass plaques , which will cost £100 , are being offered corporately , to individuals , and the families of players who have made a contribution to the fascinating Lisburn story .
26 His own rise to fame at club level had demonstrated the superiority of management by one man over management by a group , but the England team was still selected by a dozen officials ‘ expressing their views as to the merits of players without proper regard to blend and balance ’ .
27 But it was not to be despite the tremendous efforts of players like Paudi Lynch , Pat Claffey , Ian Delamere , Paul Neary , Justin Couch , Enda Moynihan , Dermot Desmond and the rest .
28 True , Mr Taylor does now appear to have safeguarded the contractual rights of players who soon will be working in the new League for their old employers .
29 The popular press could not compete and has been pushed more and more into the ‘ human interest ’ dimension , interviewing friends and relations of players , stoking up dressing-room feuds and seizing upon the sex lives of the young , virile , and wayward .
30 To anyone who got Wednesdays Daily Telegraph — did it say when they would printing rules , details of players etc again ?
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