Example sentences of "a [adj] win [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frost put paid to Mowden Park 's home game , while Newcastle Gosforth warmed up for next weekend 's Pilkington Cup fourth round tie at Manchester with a 27–9 win over Nottingham . |
| 2 | The Indians , who qualified for the finals after a last-gasp win over West Indies in the final qualifying match , were never on course to match Australia 's 233 for 5 , the feature of which was an innings of 73 from Dean Jones , recalled after surprisingly being omitted from the previous match . |
| 3 | Keegan keeps the team which produced a last-gasp win over Portsmouth last Saturday after five successive League defeats . |
| 4 | A narrow win for Labour would add a further dose of poison . |
| 5 | Their Wembley performance will have perked them up more than somewhat , and a narrow win for the Republic seems like the most optimistic possibility . |
| 6 | Now though we 're staying with football , moving down to the Hellenic League Premier Cup , and a narrow win for Didcot ; just the one goal in it ; Didcot one , Almondsbury nil , our reporter , Ken Coles . |
| 7 | Tony Curtis , from Peterborough , landed 12 Rainbow trout to score a narrow win over Simon Hodges , from Bath , who managed to land 12 smaller fish . |
| 8 | Some Obligation bounced back from a season in the doldrums with a five-length win at Hereford last month and is capable of following up . |
| 9 | MOTHERWELL climbed to the top of the Scottish Premier Division for the first time since League reconstruction 14 years ago with a 1-0 win over Rangers at Fir Park last night . |
| 10 | Cork , under new manager Damian Richardson , scrambled a 1-0 win over Monaghan on the opening day of the championship and followed that up with a less than impressive 0-0 draw at Galway on Wednesday . |
| 11 | A GARY CROSBY goal after 70 minutes gave Nottingham Forest a 1-0 win over QPR at the City Ground and ended 169 days ' misery in the Premier League 's bottom three . |
| 12 | Second division leaders De Vere ( Kevin Ford ) won 1-0 at Conlons Newsagents , Albion forfeited their 100 per cent record in a 3-3 draw with Doric Celtic and a second half goal from Paul Stevens gained Fitness Connection a 1-0 win over Alex . |
| 13 | Barcelona struggled to squeeze a 1-0 win at bottom-of-the-league Real Burgos . |
| 14 | A Les Cheeseman goal gained Stoneycroft a 1-0 win at Aintree Villa . |
| 15 | Last time they met , Craig Maskell gave them a 1-0 win on a plate . |
| 16 | A Tommy Bennett penalty clinched a 1-0 win for Fairfield at Arncliffe and Netherley RBL ( Jeff Richardson , Barry Hensley , Paul Jeffers , Paul Connolly , Gary Kimpton ) won 5-2 at West Everton , who had led 2-1 . |
| 17 | It was Everton 's first win bonus at the City Ground since Steve McMahon scored in a 1-0 win in 1982 . |
| 18 | The Seasiders ' new professional , Clayton Lambert , then raced to 96 and then in typical theatrical fashion , hit a six to reach his century and achieve a nine-wicket win at the same time . |
| 19 | Byas , opening for the first time this season in any competition , hit his first century in one day cricket as Yorkshire cruised to a nine-wicket win over Derbyshire with 39 balls to spare . |
| 20 | BRIAN LARA cracked an unbeaten century to steer the West Indies to a nine-wicket win over South Africa in Bloemfontein yesterday . |
| 21 | AC Milan , European Cup winners in 1989 and 1990 , underlined the strength of their challenge this season with a 4–0 win over Slovan Bratislava of Czechoslovakia for a 5–0 aggregate triumph . |
| 22 | Wrecclesham returned to form with a 4–0 win against Grayshott , but Chiddingfold lost 1–0 to Woking Park . |
| 23 | Meridian A had a very comfortable 7–1 victory over St Albans B and St Albans A also eased through to the semis with a 4–0 win against Viking . |
| 24 | THE British Lions launched their tour of New Zealand with a hard-earned win over North Auckland at Whangarei but the victory was marred by a shoulder injury to winger Ian Hunter . |
| 25 | Then there are all those schoolteachers , dons , television producers , writers on arts pages and members of the agitating classes who want a Labour win in order to impose Political Correctness . |
| 26 | Hopes were raised with a 5–2 win at Chester . |
| 27 | Joe Swail also progressed to the televised stage of the tournament with a 5–2 win over Nick Terry . |
| 28 | Following confirmation that Alan Noble was returning to the club as chairman in the wake of Dick Corden 's departure , the season drew to a close with a 5–2 win over Exeter . |
| 29 | The hamstring pull which put Lydon out of the Test series was sustained in the closing minutes of a 50-4 win over Chorley . |
| 30 | They emphasised the point with a 94–52 win at Chester-le-Street . |