Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our example , x 29 , x 59 and x 97 are basic and so nodes 2 , 5 and 7 are assigned to the second generation and P(2) = P(5) = P(7) = 9 . |
| 2 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 3 | Viral hepatitis has been recognized since the Second World War as being divisible into two distinct types . |
| 4 | A new Communication and Information Thesaurus has been developed from the second edition of Unesco 's Mass Communication Thesaurus . |
| 5 | It had been erected in the second half of the second century to house c number of specialist kilns and furnaces , but clearly overlay the remains of earlier bonfire kilns and spreads of potters ' clay . |
| 6 | NATO had been formed after the Second World War in order to tie North America and Western Europe together in a military alliance against the perceived threat of world domination by the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | This collection had been formed in the second half of the eighteenth century by John Hunter who was largely responsible for raising surgery from a craft to a profession in England , and was the greatest anatomist and physiologist of his day . |
| 8 | For example , medicine ran to 80 pages , whereas the schedule for chemical technology had hardly been modified since the second edition . |
| 9 | They failed to meet the League 's noon deadline to provide assurances they could continue and tomorrow 's Coca-Cola Cup tie at Reading has been cancelled with the Second Division side getting a bye . |
| 10 | He was devastated when he discovered his premises had been attacked for the second time . |
| 11 | On April 1 , 1990 , the Hungarian Zionists Association which had been dissolved after the Second World War , was re-established , with the aim of promoting the formation of a minority council within the Jewish community . |
| 12 | The earlier phases of his career had been dominated by the Second World War , the Cold War and the threat of a Third World War , and the Algerian War . |
| 13 | In fact , if the children aged thirty and above are considered as the second generation of adults , then three-quarters of the men and two-thirds of the women were living in parishes other than Cardington . |
| 14 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 15 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |
| 16 | Not only has that disc problem proved frustrating , but so has the inactivity temporarily imposed by a series of exploratory tests to assess the damage : ‘ Having been injured in the second tour match against Queensland I got back to full fitness , played in the First Test and was looking forward to the second . |
| 17 | The values placed upon formal education are transmitted to the second generation Asians and consequently many achieve educational success . |
| 18 | Extreme dates for this species are 4 August and 16 May , but not many are seen before the second half of October . |
| 19 | Their studies have also led to some surprising conclusions concerning chronology : Jacopo Bellini 's Paris album they have argued , contrary to most of the literature , precedes the London album , which they date to 1460–70 ; they have been able to date Paolino Veneto 's Map of Venice in the Marciana Library precisely to around 1328 , when previously it was thought to have been made in the second half of the century . |
| 20 | It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war . |
| 21 | I represent those who are enumerated on the second sheet . |
| 22 | The major part of our profits are made in the second half er , and this year er will certainly be no exception . |
| 23 | OUSTED councillor Ralph Knight has been snubbed for the second time in two months by members of his own party , it was revealed last night . |
| 24 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 25 | At the end of each season , the bottom three clubs in the First Division are relegated to the Second Division for the next season . |
| 26 | And , had the normally reliable Michael Lynagh been on target with the boot , Australia 's record score against Scotland would have been eclipsed in the Second Test at Ballymore . |
| 27 | A RECORD entry of 129 bulls and 22 breeding females have been entered for the second Autumn Multi-breed Show and Sale of Pedigree Beef Cattle beef cattle , on the Royal Welsh Showground , Builth Wells , on November 13 . |
| 28 | A PLAN to build executive-style houses in an upmarket suburb of Middlesbrough has been refused for the second time . |
| 29 | The attack was believed to have been linked to the second anniversary on Dec. 9 of the Palestinian intifada in the occupied territories . |
| 30 | They are expelled from the second city they visit ( Acts 13:51 ) , plotted against at the next ( Acts 14:5 ) , and nearly stoned to death at Lystra ( Acts 14:19 ) . |