Example sentences of "as the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ . Primitive and child are again linked , but not as the second childhood of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 2 | In September agreement was held up when the then Chancellor , Mr Nigel Lawson , seemed reluctant to allow any change in the IMF 's structure which resulted in a drop in Britain 's position as the second largest shareholder within the Fund , even though it is now the sixth largest market economy . |
| 3 | Bulwark was commissioned in January 1960 and stationed with her Commando embarked at Singapore ; Albion followed as the second Commando Carrier about a year later ; construction of six Army-owned Landing Ships Logistic ( LSLs ) was authorised in August 1960 ; the Assault Ships Fearless and Intrepid were ordered in 1961 and 1962 ; and design work was started in December 1961 on the next generation of aircraft carriers , the first of which was code-named CVA 01 . |
| 4 | At what point did the Labour Party take over from the Liberal Party as the second party of government ? |
| 5 | • The identity of the Second Channel has been given as Ali Hashemi Bahranani , Rafsanjani 's nephew , He is kept as the Second Channel here , for simplicity 's sake . |
| 6 | It was of enormous symbolic importance as the second city of Northern Ireland , as the site of the legendary siege of 1689 in which the Protestants resisted the forces of James II , and as the town in which a Nationalist majority was denied control of local government by a particularly flagrant gerrymander of the electoral boundaries . |
| 7 | In September 1964 a special meeting of the corporation finance committee , which included all councillors , adopted an amended motion which gave the boundary extension subcommittee the power to include in its remit the progressive expansion of Derry , so as to maintain its position as the second city in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 9 | Law and Baker 's joint transfer was greeted as the second coming . |
| 10 | The pale middle-aged skipper emerged from the bowels of the ship as the second mate , another young lad , ticked the engine over from the wheel house . |
| 11 | Leeds is emerging as the second most important financial centre in England . |
| 12 | British Rail 's choice of King 's Cross as the second London terminal in addition to Waterloo has raised a storm of protest not only from Camden Council but also from Newham which has emerged as a kind of British Amiens in its campaign to site the terminal at Stratford . |
| 13 | This software enabled the first of a number of useful commercial applications of AI to be constructed ; many of these can be considered as the second generation of expert systems . |
| 14 | What was it like ? ’ you grandchildren may ask in the future , for the late eighties in Britain might well become known as the second ‘ Belle Epoque ’ . |
| 15 | It was described as the second largest in Europe . |
| 16 | ( Note that an Asus2 has the note A as the root , B as the second and E as the fifth ; an Esus4 chord , on the other hand , has E as the root , A as the sus4 and B as the fifth . ) |
| 17 | They had accepted an itinerary which offered the fierce opposition of Canterbury and Auckland as the second and fourth games , followed by the two tests . |
| 18 | The rubber industry was badly affected by the depression of the 1930s , but its position as the second most important export was not threatened . |
| 19 | Indeed , it will soon be necessary to increase capacity by introducing a new numbering system : on Easter Sunday 1995 nearly every number in the UK will change — a ‘ 1 ’ will be inserted as the second digit in any number that starts with ‘ 0 ’ . |
| 20 | It also creates serious difficulties for the theological understanding of Christ as the second Adam . |
| 21 | Again take the first route from this node , noting the letter at this next node as the second letter in the candidate string . |
| 22 | At one time sharing the old Norn language , even there we had been forced to diverge , because while Shetland became absorbed into Scotland and obliged to take on the Scots/English language , the Faroese managed to retain and develop their own language , using that of their ‘ parent ’ country Denmark as the second tongue . |
| 23 | Hewlett-Packard Co is likely to steal DEC 's thunder and whisk away its number two position as the second largest computer vendor in the US by 1994 , Hembricht & Quist analyst Robert Herwick says . |
| 24 | Uniplex Ltd is set to reveal Data General as the second of its ‘ preferred ’ architectures for Medley — its new generation client/server office automation software project . |
| 25 | Luring Gatting down the track at Ilford and shivering timber constituted something of a coup , as does Graham Gooch 's belief that Shahid will one day succeed ‘ Charlie ’ Childs as the second Chelmsford twirler . |
| 26 | He also produced work of startling modernity such as the second catalogue for the furrier Samuel of 1928 which uses a disjointed photo-montage style to produce startlingly Surrealist images accompanied by brief , enigmatic texts on the facing pages . |
| 27 | When the Winterthur show went to the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover as the second leg of its tour I was approached by the director of an art community set up in a distillery . |
| 28 | The problem of course with Christology for feminists is that Jesus was a male human being and that thus as a symbol , as the Christ , or as the Second Person of the trinity , it would seem that ‘ God ’ becomes in some way ‘ male ’ . |
| 29 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 30 | The letter O , for instance , does not occur very often as the final letter in a four letter word , but is common as the second letter . |