Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | It caused us a lot of extra work , major changes and more travel to get it right for the second larger meeting . |
| 2 | If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory . |
| 3 | She was n't likely to become enchanted for the second time this evening — her common sense would see to that . |
| 4 | Ea transgene copy number ( Figure 2D ) was determined by Southern blots of DNA derived from transgenic mice spleens , digested with the restriction enzyme Kpn I , and then hybridised using a DNA probe specific for the second exon of Ea . |
| 5 | These were persistent after the second night . |
| 6 | Tokyo : Stocks closed at a new high for the second consecutive day . |
| 7 | Tokyo : Stocks closed at a new high for the second consecutive day . |
| 8 | A rib cage injury forced Pringle to leave the ground after five overs , in which he conceded only six for Haynes 's wicket , and Simmons then broke free for the second time with devastating effect . |
| 9 | It was not seemly for the Second Son to outshine the father in this way and I knew instinctively that before a year had passed there would be more building in the compound . |
| 10 | Today , classrooms were empty for the second day running . |
| 11 | He was too old to be called up ( a lost generation of men who were too young for the first war , too old for the second ) . |
| 12 | The combination of these two functions in Britain is seen as a safeguard against the development of authoritarian police methods , but it brings other problems , as the methods of public control necessary to one function may not always be acceptable for the second . |
| 13 | This invention turned out to be ahead of its time ; U-shaped grooves remained normal until 1939 , and Packman-type cutters only became universal after the Second World War . |
| 14 | It is part of our thesis that sexual and political revolution go hand in hand and that indeed the first is prerequisite of the second . |
| 15 | Nikola ( Figure 4.3 ) is a straightforward case of a transfer from the first year of one degree course direct into the second year of another . |
| 16 | After that there was no way back for City and Rangers now travel to Marine in the second round on December 5 . |
| 17 | After listening to each pair of words decide whether the sound in question is the same or different in the second word as in the first word , and put a tick in the appropriate column , first having ticked off word no. 1 . |
| 18 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 19 | A further indication of renewed population pressure is that complaints about land enclosure became more conspicuous in the second decade of the sixteenth century , at precisely the same time as real wages began to fall . |
| 20 | He said they played well in the first half , but then things went wrong in the second half , when Orrell had a bit of luck in scoring after a knock on . |
| 21 | Despite an English-sounding name , he was born in central Europe and fought with distinction for the British in the Second World War . |
| 22 | FEW PEOPLE seemed particularly interested in the second annual Leadmill-hosted festival . |
| 23 | This process of compounding , which he patented in 1845 , came to be known as ‘ McNaughting ’ , and as it was relatively inexpensive ( even though new boilers were required to supply steam at the higher pressure ) it was very popular in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | I could give people the last part , be careful in the second one . |
| 25 | Almost all classroom activity was oral and monolingual in the second language . |
| 26 | they were wrong on the second point at least . ’ |
| 27 | The 30-year-old Mandale Harrier was making his first appearance over the country for a year , but he broke clear on the second of the three laps of a gruelling nine kilometre course and held off a late challenge by Newton Aycliffe 's Kevin Vose to win by an emphatic 13 seconds . |
| 28 | She came as night-nurse on the second of May when I had a bad attack of sciatica and left on the fourteenth of June . |
| 29 | They were high on the second icefield ; or was it the third ? |
| 30 | The lyrical meditation proper to the second degree of love that he includes in Ego Dormio projects a lightness of spirit as it embodies rhetorically a sense of the joyful reality behind the story which is the goal of the contemplative . |