Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | His private sitting room on the second floor , a substantial , high-ceilinged chamber immediately shrank to the proportions of a toy theatre when he entered it . |
| 2 | The proposal to close Seacombe Ferry comes a week after the revitalised service won a top tourist award for the second successive year . |
| 3 | Historical accounts of the more recent period are , generally speaking , still to be written , as is an overall review of social policy development since the Second World War . |
| 4 | Crawford played Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody , a British Army officer during the Second World War who , through his ineptitude , kills off , one by one , all members of his unit . |
| 5 | He turned not to the developing rage for eclecticism , but to the French Renaissance style of the Second Empire . |
| 6 | Shostakovich may provide the melodic/harmonic starting point for the Second Symphony , although the fugally overlapping textures of the opening clearly hark back to Bartók 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celeste . |
| 7 | De Freitas needed on-field treatment to his right hand before a ball was bowled in Lancashire 's Sunday league game against Essex and only minutes after England 's high noon selection for the second Lord 's test . |
| 8 | DeFreitas needed on-field treatment to his right hand before a ball was bowled in Lancashire 's Sunday league game against Essex and only minutes after England 's high noon selection for the second Test at Lord 's . |
| 9 | Aintree and Fazakerley have opened up a six point lead in the second division with 35 from six matches . |
| 10 | Although the United States is the single largest exporter to OPEC ( supplying about 15 per cent of its foreign purchases ) , its deficit with those countries largely accounted for its overall trade deficit in the second half of the seventies . |
| 11 | In other words , quite apart from the franchise changes that did the party no net harm , the changes of 1918–21 transformed the Unionists from the natural minority that they had been in 1914 to a natural majority party until the Second World War . |
| 12 | GIGN , with the finish of all but the parachuting stage within sight , gave up all chances to sleep for 58 hours to pull out a three hour lead over the second placed team , L'Arche . |
| 13 | He was given a questionable standing count in the second of three thrilling rounds , but he spent too much time battling rather than boxing and too much time on the ropes instead of using his footwork . |
| 14 | The mill has a large belt wheel at the second floor level and , at such a height , must have presented a few problems with the fitting of the drive belt . |
| 15 | Instead , they 've spent £1million on Dion Dublin , an unproven centre forward from the Second Division who may or may not come off . |
| 16 | At the end of the top row the sequence of bits starts at the left hand end of the second screen row , and so on . |
| 17 | JULIE BOND enjoyed an extraordinary run of serving success to guide Woolwich Brixton to the Royal Bank National League title for the second time in three years . |
| 18 | Oldham was the scene of a great building boom in the second half of the nineteenth century , and many ordinary working folk bought shares in the great cotton industry that gave rise to it . |
| 19 | Hence Britain has suffered increasingly from an international demonstration effect since the Second World War . |
| 20 | A 1000lb bomb explodes outside the Grand Opera House for the second time . |
| 21 | These reactions , first discovered by Fischer and Tropsch in Germany in the 1920s were used to make poor quality petrol during the Second World War . |
| 22 | A MAJOR talking point after the Second Division promotion clash was why Sheffield referee John Key turned down a goal that would have shattered Middlesbrough 's unbeaten home League record . |
| 23 | Six readers will have the opportunity to meet the BBC Good Food team at the second BBC Good Food readers ' lunch , to be hosted by Perrier at an award-winning Les Routiers restaurant in Yorkshire . |
| 24 | Also , 50% of the teenagers have an estimated hazard which is larger after the first three months , although more than half have a larger estimated reservation wage in the second period . |
| 25 | The electron fluxes were irregular , with peaks in the precipitating energy flux at the second and third of the steps which bound the ‘ cusp ’ precipitation : the regions polewards and equatorwards would usually be termed ‘ mantle ’ and ‘ cleft ’ , respectively . |
| 26 | Losses during the final quarter were substantially lower at $2.3m ( 1991 : $22.2m loss ) and produced a deficit at the year end down by two thirds from $75.6m to $25.4m , reflecting a reduced level of major fire damage during the second half of the year . |
| 27 | Warned Dorigo : ‘ We have n't lost faith in our ability and if we can beat Blackburn and Norwich , it will give us the best possible launching pad for the second half of the season . ’ |
| 28 | But , despite its politics , Simon 's book cuts a refreshing swathe through some rarely-challenged assumptions and does a rather neat demolition job on the second type of writer on population . |
| 29 | Joseland moves from blind side flanker to the second row and with skipper Jones not available Fison takes the inside centre berth |
| 30 | Consequently , social groups down as far as the craftsmen and artisans developed " an appetite for mass-consumption " which survived the impact of faster population growth in the second half of the century . |