Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] victory " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw pliant girls offering him the laurels of victory before they fainted before his conquering feet . |
| 2 | Lest one might think that such patriotic sentiments came from a court milieu , for the anonymous author was probably a royal chaplain , one should remember that similar sentiments and the attribution of victory to God also occur in the London City Chronicles . |
| 3 | — STOCKTON Schools swept the board with victories in all six boys and girls categories . |
| 4 | and seeing England to the brink of victory . |
| 5 | " Providence has denied his country the privilege of decking his youthful brow with the chaplets which belong to the sons of victory and of fame , but his deeds can never die . |
| 6 | The try was the signal for Neath 's pack to take control and lay the foundations for victory . |
| 7 | Angus Blair laid the foundations for victory against the Welshmen with a 25-11 win over Len Webley , Robert Provan beat Dai Wilkins 25-12 , captain Robert McCulloch counted eight shots over the last six ends for a 22-14 win over John Price , and Alex Marshall edged out Spencer Wilshire 16-11 . |
| 8 | Caballeros punched the air with the exultation of victory . |
| 9 | The glory of victory , the bitterness of defeat , the sunny nature of everyone as they cross the bridge into the magic world for a few hours on a frosty January day . |
| 10 | He emerged as a shrewd captain in Australia , leading the Lions to victories over New South Wales B and an Anzac XV . |
| 11 | Finlay Calder , the Scottish player who led the Lions to victory in Australia , and is now in his final season at the age of 32 , receives the OBE. |
| 12 | A shift from a presidential system to that of a Prime Minister and Cabinet would make it easier for parties to divide up the rewards of victory between their various factions ( as illustrated by the Japanese model ) . |
| 13 | Egyptian jewellery adorned the statue of Victory long since looted from Tarentum in southern Italy and displayed in the Curia Julia , named after the Julii , Octavian 's family . |
| 14 | Yes , life had come , but not as they had dreamed it , as the great liberator from restraint and narrowness , but rather as the great enemy , with which he had to fight , fight as he was still fighting today and must fight until the end , with never the hope of victory ! |
| 15 | This is the route to victory . ’ |
| 16 | That will put us on the route to victory over terrorism . |
| 17 | CLAUDINE TOLEAFOA , a little-known 19-year-old from New Zealand , scored the kind of victory upon which solid careers are built , at the Federation Cup in Tokyo yesterday . |
| 18 | That will give the boo-boys the illusion of victory , and will upset Barnes ' colleagues . |
| 19 | Mark Pitman , who ended the five win run of Young Hustler when riding The Illywhacker to victory in the £25,000 Cavalier Chase at Worcester yesterday . |
| 20 | A member of the Scottish Girls ' team for the European Team championship , she led the side to victory in the Home Internationals . |
| 21 | As the picture shows , Mrs Perdigao ( right , with the wife of President Mario Soares , left , at the prize-winning ceremony ) took the view that turning up is the key to victory . |
| 22 | Piper studies each opponent carefully and has re-run the video of the Benn-Watson fight repeatedly to develop the strategy which he believes will prove the key to victory . |
| 23 | We very rarely seem to enjoy it , and the pleasure of victory expresses itself mainly as relief from the self-loathing of defeat . ) |
| 24 | Like Napoleon , to whom he was often likened , Chapman was the organizer of victory . |
| 25 | For the rest of the war , the party 's loyalty to Lloyd George was strengthened when he became not only the organizer of victory but the inspiration of the country . |
| 26 | Here , for example , is an extract from a memorandum to a US delegate to the Paris Peace Conference by Lawrence of Arabia , who had led the Arabs to victory while torturing himself with the secret knowledge of his part in their betrayal : ‘ On 1 October ( 1918 ) , the people of Beyrout , in emulation of the Damascenes , turned on their Turkish garrison of 700 men , and took them prisoner … |
| 27 | SUNDAY : Michael Kinane , Ireland 's champion jockey , wins the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on the British-trained 19-1 outsider , Carroll House , a day after partnering The Caretaker to victory in the Cartier Million , Europe 's most valuable race . |
| 28 | Most managers , before and since , have held the organizing of victory to be impossible . |
| 29 | On the morrow of victory , Croats and Serbs may find themselves faced with a war without end . |
| 30 | The straightforward , one-shilling manual , with its handsome woodcut of a cornucopia-like trug on the cover , rapidly established itself as the Dig for Victory bible . |