Example sentences of "a [noun sg] victory [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A whitewash victory for the young army hopefuls . |
| 2 | Worse was to follow for the great mare , for after winning a match at Punchestown against Buck House ( who the day before her Gold Cup victory had won the two-mile Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham ) and running second in the Prix la Barka at Auteuil , she returned to the French course in June to attempt a repeat victory in the Grand Course de Haies . |
| 3 | THE Prime Minister scored the luckiest escape of a lifetime last night with a knife-edge victory over the ‘ enemy within ’ of his own party . |
| 4 | DIVISION two of the English Schools Swimming Association which covers Merseyside , Lancashire , Cheshire and the Isle of Mannotched two individual and a team victory in the Schools National Championships at Wolverhampton . |
| 5 | But Peter Browning 's dismissal after 22 minutes changed all that and Cranleigh , having drawn level by half-time , looked a good bet to record a shock victory over the Dan Air leaders . |
| 6 | The all G.P.T. clash in the Rumjahn Cup produced a shock victory for the B team who accounted for the A team 6-4 . |
| 7 | He felt that such ‘ impersonal ’ coverage amounted to a propaganda victory for the IRA . |
| 8 | But in 1659 he won a landslide victory over a crypto-Royalist , and in the Parliament of Richard Cromwell [ q.v. ] he proposed Chaloner Chute [ q.v. ] as Speaker and rose to his feet ‘ 20 times a day ’ . |
| 9 | Sharif , 41 , was backed by the coalition Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) , which had won a landslide victory over the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) in the general election held in October [ see pp. 37763-64 ] . |
| 10 | The close race of the weekend now has the makings of a landslide victory for the Governor of Arkansas who ten months ago was just an also-ran for the Democratic nomination . |
| 11 | Elections held in October 1990 under the administration of a caretaker civilian government resulted in a landslide victory for the pro-Islamic and right-wing anti-Bhutto coalition — the Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) — led by Sharif , the former Chief Minister of the Punjab [ see pp. 37763-64 ] . |
| 12 | In simultaneous elections in Berlin on Dec. 2 — the first since 1946 for a unified administration in the city — the CDU led by Eberhard Diepgen won a landslide victory against the SPD-Alternative List ( AL ) coalition led by Walter Momper , which had ruled in West Berlin since the last election in January 1989 [ see pp. 36403 ; 36530 ] . |
| 13 | The Christian Democrats and their allies win a landslide victory in the GDR 's first free and secret general election [ pp. 37300-03 ] . |
| 14 | Fr Jean-Bertrand Aristide , a radical Roman Catholic priest representing the National Front for Democracy and Change , defeated 10 other candidates to achieve a landslide victory in the presidential elections on Dec. 16 . |
| 15 | Lech Walesa , the leader of the Solidarity trade union and the country 's most prominent opposition figure in the 1980s , gained a landslide victory in the second round of the presidential elections , held on Dec. 9 . |
| 16 | The parallel National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma had been set up principally by exiled members of the National League for Democracy , the main opposition party which had won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections but had subsequently been prevented by the SLORC from taking power . |
| 17 | The centrist Union pour la Democratie Francaise ( UDF ) and right-wing Rassemblement Pour la Republique ( RPR ) look set to win a landslide victory in the French legislative elections on 21 and 28 March , taking between 38 per cent and 44 per cent of the vote . |
| 18 | But the fact that he had won a signal victory over the headmaster on Monday night made him reluctant to pit himself against him again so soon . |
| 19 | In the absence of its national chief , José Antonio Primo de Rivera , the party had become divided into a number of factions whose mutual animosity was only kept in check by their common interest in a Nationalist victory in the war . |
| 20 | JANIE EICKHOFF won the women 's tempo and points races on Sunday to lead the United States to a surprise victory in the three-day World Invitational , at California State University . |
| 21 | The climax to the main event saw Wrexham 's Simon Ainley pave the way for an appearance in the final against North London 's Martin Adebisi , after he pulled off a surprise victory in the event 's semi-final over Sunderland 's top seed Ashley Kershaw , by a 7–6 7–5 margin . |
| 22 | Nippon ran past Il Moro di Venezia on the first downwind leg to take a consolation victory in the challengers ' section , while New Zealand 's despatch of France from their second successive semi-final was chillingly efficient . |
| 23 | Evidently unabashed at the ideological implications of his re-orientation , Sope in July 1990 predicted an opposition victory in the 1991 general election and suggested that he would be Deputy Prime Minister in a government headed by UMP leader Maxim Carlot . |
| 24 | With just under six years of office still to run , Mr Ozal presumably calculates that the party needs his popularity much more than he needs the party — particularly if there is to be an early general election to take advantage of an alliance victory in the Gulf war . |
| 25 | Simon Scott converted , but the Scots , tired after an extra-time victory over the Hong Kong national side , lost 26-7 . |