Example sentences of "of the league [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bath , Leicester , Harlequins and Wasps are not top dogs ‘ purely ’ because of the league system . |
| 2 | In later years Chapman came to realize that the extension of the league system was having a bad effect on the game . |
| 3 | That summer football waited anxiously for a decision on the future of the League competition . |
| 4 | From 1903 to 1909 he was paid editor of the League organ , An Claidheamh Soluis . |
| 5 | A member of the Hillingdon side which won six successive English League titles between 1980-85 , Tennant , a centre net player , gave up the game after Hillingdon disbanded following their capture of the League title in 1985 . |
| 6 | Some pretty firm cases will be stated , too , at Kingsholm , where Bath , who still have an outside chance of the league title , challenge Gloucester . |
| 7 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 8 | When I come back I expect you all to have worked hard and got the team another 9 points and a top of the league position . |
| 9 | The competition lacked the prestige of the League Championship , and its future looked uncertain as one club after another abandoned it by successfully applying to enter the Football League — Bristol City in 1901 , Chelsea in 1905 , Fulham in 1907 and Tottenham in 1908 . |
| 10 | And as early as the fifth game of the league campaign , following defeat at Distillery , Mr B told anyone who cared to listen that ‘ Linfield 's league title hopes were slipping away ’ . |
| 11 | Aitchison managed to put over two of four kickable penalty chances in that period to push his side in front and , 16-15 behind , it looked as if Dundee High might be heading for their third single point defeat of the league campaign . |
| 12 | Samuel Hoare , the Foreign Secretary , used a meeting of the League Assembly in Geneva to declare British readiness to participate fully in ‘ collective resistance to all acts of unprovoked aggression ’ . |
| 13 | Just over a fortnight ago two of Tyson 's more controversial penalty decisions had help spark a free-for-all at the end of the League match between Arsenal and Norwich City which led to both clubs being charged with bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 14 | COCA-COLA took over sponsorship of the League Cup in a £2.25 million deal yesterday and confirmed they are the ‘ real thing ’ for football . |
| 15 | Still in with a shout of the championship , Bangor are also in the final of the League Cup next month when they tackle Coleraine — but the Bass Irish Cup seems to be their number one target . |
| 16 | Man U lost 2–1 to First Division Stoke City in their 1st leg of the League Cup , but it was apparently a team of fringe players like Phelan , Martin and Dublin . |
| 17 | Subject : Leeds Out of the League Cup |
| 18 | By future I mean a couple of seasons from now , the current season although not a write off by any means has lost a lot of meaning the league appears once again to be going to the scum and we 're out of the League cup thingy . |
| 19 | p.s Spawning scum buggers have got Pompey/Posh at home in the next round of the league cup ! |
| 20 | United knocked them out of the League Cup at the start of the season over 2 legs . |
| 21 | Derry followed last Sunday 's disappointing defeat by Shelbourne at Tolka Park by restoring a measure of self belief on Thursday night with a 1–0 victory over Monaghan United in the second round of the League Cup . |
| 22 | Shotton shine FOOTBALL : Shotton Boys Under-13s completed a Russell Foster Tyne and Wear League and cup double when they beat Waldridge Boys U-13s 3–1 in the final of the League Cup . |
| 23 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 24 | Out of date as soon as it was published , it will do nothing to lift Britain from its position near the bottom of the league table for pedestrian safety , nor to address the fact that in individual residential areas the quality of life continues to be blighted . |
| 25 | While sex segregation is endemic in the labour market , ‘ SSDs stand at the top of the league table in the welfare state ’ , as Christine Hallett noted in 1989 . |
| 26 | If ever a comparative survey of the I.Q. of the nations of the world was undertaken , there would be no particular surprise if we came top of the league table : It is as clear that we have the ability to solve our problems as to win the only battle that really counted in World War II — the last one ! |
| 27 | Britain lags behind its competitors in every measure and is bottom of the league table . |
| 28 | The United States and Japan , who spent less than 0.04 per cent and 0.07 per cent respectively on ODA to LDCs and were at the bottom of the league table of aid donors , undertook to increase their aid . |
| 29 | ‘ It was frustrating from the point of view of losing an opportunity to move closer to Rangers at the top of the league table , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Another defeat this weekend does n't bear thinking about in terms of the League table . |