Example sentences of "[v-ing] the record " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neale was re-elected captain for the 1991 season last November , already equalling the record for longest serving captain . |
| 2 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 3 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 4 | IBM Corp seems to have whipped up as much of a storm around its head with its plunge into digital delivery of music to record stores as Alan Sugar has attracted with his bizarre sacking of Terry Venables as chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur Plc : IBM 's joint venture with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp has triggered ‘ swift , fierce and almost entirely negative ’ reaction from the music industry , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ IBM and Blockbuster made a major gaffe by issuing announcements without contacting the record companies , ’ said Michael Schulhof , chairman of Sony Corp 's Sony USA ; Warner Music Group talked of arrogance , MCA Music Group said it had begun working on its own electronic distribution system , and even Polygram , 80% owned by Philips Electronics NV , which also has 6% of Blockbuster , described the announcement as premature . |
| 5 | These limits were originally set by phonographic performance Limited , representing the record companies , and the Musicians ' Union , to safeguard the viability of commercial recordings . ) |
| 6 | Seventeen random numbers in the range 000 to 200 ( representing the record keys ) can be selected by choosing the first numbers within the required range occurring in a random number table . |
| 7 | Chosen to manage the 1988 campaign of George Bush , he deployed a notoriously vicious " negative campaigning " style , concentrating Republican resources on relentlessly discrediting the character and distorting the record of the Democrat nominee , Michael Dukakis [ see p. 36339 ] . |
| 8 | OPENING THE RECORD |
| 9 | One would also tend to accept verbatim reports of judicial court proceedings , evidence given before special committees of enquiry , so long as one can genuinely believe that the people keeping the record were quite impartial and skilled in their work and that all they took down has been printed without editing . |
| 10 | Remember that simplicity and practicality are essential since it is busy parents who will actually be keeping the record . |
| 11 | Greg 's mind played on Viola 's concern with keeping the record ‘ straight ’ , meaning that it must tell only her version . |
| 12 | Bush ended the primary process having won all 38 of the Republican contests , matching the record established by Richard Nixon in 1972 and Ronald Reagan in 1984 , both of whom later won landslide victories in the presidential elections . |
| 13 | In fact , five minutes after checking the record collection ( nothing worth taping ) and the obvious places where you 'd lock the booze away from the hired help . |
| 14 | It is only looking at capturing the record of what training people have . |
| 15 | But what about the fact that people lie , that they are perfectly capable of remaking the record to appear in a good light ? |
| 16 | Usually , a band creating a ‘ buzz ’ is doing very successful gigs and totally ignoring the record companies . |
| 17 | As the whole object of selling the record , if it was a sale , was to increase the sales of chocolate , it seems to me wrong not to treat the stipulated evidence of such sales as part of the consideration . |
| 18 | In Florida on Oct. 20 two members of the rap music band " 2 Live Crew " were acquitted on obscenity charges for having performed songs from their album As Nasty as They Wan na Be , although a retailer had been convicted of selling the record after it had been declared obscene by a federal district judge on June 6 . |
| 19 | Records are made to be broken and Tom Walker , although holding the record for the longest serving employee within the group , may well qualify for an industry wide record if it were possible . |
| 20 | I 'm holding the record for most days off . |
| 21 | About twenty metres down from the top , Priestley realized that the tin they had left in the cairn in fact contained their exposed photographic plates , and that what they were carrying down with them was the tin containing the record of their ascent . |
| 22 | SCOTVEC can certificate any module where training and assessment has been carried out in a language other than English ; an endorsement appears on the Learning Outcomes Statement accompanying the Record of Education and Training indicating the language used . |
| 23 | Getting the record into the shops was fraught with problems . |
| 24 | Commanche Run 's neck victory over Baynoun in the 1984 St Leger gave Piggott his twenty-eighth Classic , breaking the record previously held by Frank Buckle with twenty-seven wins between 1792 and 1827 . |
| 25 | for breaking the record for four minute mile . |
| 26 | The chub in this river , however , are no monsters , nowhere near approaching the record of 8lb 4oz . |
| 27 | This means starting the record at about 33rpm , and speeding it up gradually as the stylus travels in . |
| 28 | I was just letting the record finish Andy . |
| 29 | With the Hillbillies project , I enjoyed doing the record so much that I just wanted to do a little tour . |
| 30 | And when a tune like that comes along , it 's as if they 've always known that song , and so then you tap in the song and that 's why you 're doing the record . |