Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the searched-for item is less than the mid-point ( for words this means the searched-for item comes earlier in the alphabet than the item at the mid-point ) , then the search continues in the first half of the structure , if it is greater , the search continues in the second half of the structure . |
| 2 | The glissando begins on the second beat , reaches its upward limit on the third , returns to its starting-point on the fourth , and ends on the first beat of the next bar . |
| 3 | Mix a teaspoon of sugar into the first glass , a teaspoon of tea leaves into the second glass and a teaspoon of washing powder into the third . |
| 4 | When all the items have been used , the story passes to the second person who takes a turn continuing the story using her items . |
| 5 | The exercise begins on the second syllable . |
| 6 | The third seed wasted two match points in the second set tie break before capitulating 4–6 7–6 6–3 to the big-serving Australian . |
| 7 | The emergence of task-oriented behaviour in the group leads to a second pattern of behaviour — the socio-emotional or maintenance behaviour . |
| 8 | The Spennymoor super heavyweight forced the referee to step in after Hopper had pounded the more fancied Craig Parsons of Brighton into three standing counts in the second round . |
| 9 | The conflict develops in the second part where it reaches a climax : in Giselle a death , in Romeo and Juliet several deaths . |
| 10 | The first is , of course , a ‘ piece of string ’ question , since the availability ranges from a second hand VPI at say £4500 , to a new Saratoga , say £124,000 . |
| 11 | Its façade dates from the second half of the 18C and is by Josef Jägr , an Austrian from the Tyrol . |
| 12 | The patient may have his arms and upper body supported on the treatment plinth as he stands facing it , while the physiotherapist sits on a second plinth behind him . |
| 13 | On the first row , you knit the background stitches for the first row of the original pattern , on the second row you knit the pattern stitches for the first row of the original pattern ; row 3 is the pattern stitches for the second row of the original pattern and the fourth row the background stitches for the second row of the original pattern . |
| 14 | If the target is slain then the bolt penetrates to the second rank and hits again in exactly the same way as a normal bolt thrower . |
| 15 | This statement in turn leads onto the second question : Why ? |
| 16 | Similar logic applies to the second situation . |
| 17 | JOHN MELLENCAMP had to cancel tour dates for the second time in a month when bass player Toby Meyers was injured in a boating accident in Saratoga , New York . |
| 18 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 19 | Concern arises in the second case as there may well be a conflict of interest between the rights of an elderly person to live an eccentric independent life , and the rights of family or neighbours to be protected from hazards for example of vermin or fire . |
| 20 | Coatings company International Lory has for the second time completed a year without a single lost day accident . |
| 21 | The first paragraph , for example , comes from p. 10 and the second from p. 13 ; and all the connections Leech and Short make between these pages have been lost , with the result that it is not clear how the first paragraph leads to the second paragraph . |
| 22 | On the first row , you knit the background stitches for the first row of the original pattern , on the second row you knit the pattern stitches for the first row of the original pattern ; row 3 is the pattern stitches for the second row of the original pattern and the fourth row the background stitches for the second row of the original pattern . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the search for a star continues with the second heat on Monday , March 9 . |
| 24 | But the real golden goose comes in the second round . |
| 25 | of the spring records in the second half of May and a similar proportion of autumn reports in the second half of August . |
| 26 | Probably the most effective and most common scoring technique in karate is the gyaku-zuki , or reverse punch , which the beginner learns in the second week of his basic training , and provides a good illustration of the need constantly to return to practising the basics . |
| 27 | In the army , a total of 1,308 officers and 5,152 nco 's received their redundancy notices under the second phase of the Options for Change plan to cut army numbers by almost 40,000 to 119,000 by 1995 . |
| 28 | Is there expectations that there will be any more redundancy costs in the second half ? |
| 29 | However , with the sticky label approach and the possibly dangerous method of fitting the power supply — the mains hum will affect the picture quality if nothing else happens — the unit slips into the second rank . |
| 30 | The expanding copper and tin mines of west Cornwall depended on mule trains until the second quarter of the nineteenth century . |