Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 2 | In 1924 it was decided to publish annually a Yearbook as a prospectus , and this continued until paper rationing caused its abandonment during the Second World War . |
| 3 | The ‘ Lancashire ’ coffin appears not to have made its début until the second quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | William Golding 's second novel , The Inheritors ( 1955 ) , and his favourite , is about the historically remote world of Neanderthal man , conversing in cries and grunts and on the point of being supplanted by smooth and hairless superior beings ; his third , Pincher Martin ( 1956 ) drowns its hero on the second page and recounts his thoughts in the rest . |
| 5 | The failure of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — formerly the Communist Party — PCI ) to hold its position as the second electoral force was unprecedented in any post-war elections of comparable scope . |
| 6 | GDP actually reached its trough in the second quarter of 1992 , since when it has grown by 0.2% each quarter . |
| 7 | An sure enough , last year Heinz had to withdraw its sponsorship of the second Green Shopping Day at the last minute amid a storm of publicity over its tuna fishing methods , which were allegedly killing dolphins . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The long road to Wembley winds its way into the second round this weekend and cup romance takes us to Cheltenham to see the Town ; the Robins getting ready for their big day . |
| 10 | The failure is said to have its origins in the second half of the nineteenth century when a number of changes were taking place in the structure of British domestic banking , and in the nature of corporate ownership . |
| 11 | The programme should guide WACC in the ensuing years and prepare its members for the second World Congress in 1995 . |
| 12 | Pythagoras and his pupils in the sixth century BC taught of the rotation of the Earth , and Archimedes calculated its rotation in the second century BC as scientifically as modern astronomers do now . |