Example sentences of "[verb] [art] second [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the rest of the inter-war period , and indeed ever since , Labour politicians and commentators have attempted to explain why Ramsay MacDonald ditched the second Labour government and formed a National Government . |
| 2 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 3 | After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier . |
| 4 | There were no windows in the thick stone walls and the sunlight which brightened the outer room in a single shaft directed through the open doorway hardly penetrated the second inner room . |
| 5 | The procedures employed to conduct the second multi-agency enumeration survey were similar to those adopted in the first survey , the main differences being the need to revise the agencies employed to enumerate problem drug users ( see Parker et al . |
| 6 | Thus , uniformity of form and substance constitutes the second minimum legal prerequisite of a public bill of lading registry . |
| 7 | The early 1980s was a time of immense fertility for blacks in sport : as well as their presence in athletics , boxing and soccer , Desmond Douglas established himself as the top table tennis player in the UK , ; Eugene Codrington consolidated his captaincy of the British karate team ( composed mainly of other blacks ) and Roland Butcher became the second black player to play for an MCC touring side ( the first being Basil D'Oliviera of South Africa ) . |
| 8 | Aberdeen had , at that point , been slow to regain the composure shown before Eadie 's involvement and this was illustrated when Aitken became the second experienced player to be booked . |
| 9 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 10 | On March 1 the Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) , after 23 years of clandestine struggle , became the second major guerrilla group to lay down arms and enter political life as a party , formally changing its name to the Hope , Peace and Liberty party ( with the same Spanish acronym , EPL ) . |
| 11 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 12 | It became the second great text and was to last as an authoritative collection for all Roman Catholics until the revision of the canon law in 1918 and the publication of the Codex . |
| 13 | In the larger nations in the 1980S IBM in effect became the second national champion , and in some smaller countries perhaps even the first national champion computer supplier . |
| 14 | Latvia thus became the second ex-Soviet republic ( following Estonia ) to replace the rouble with its own currency . |
| 15 | In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , in Belfast , became the second leading Belfast hotel to feel the wrath of the bombers within four days . |
| 16 | The second half produced any amount of action , including five goals , three of them to Chorley , before their striker Bernie Taylor had to be stretchered off following a tackle from Kath Townley , who became the second United player to be dismissed . |
| 17 | He gave pregnant mice a dilute solution of alcohol by mouth , and again , fertilised eggs exposed to alcohol while in the process of completing the second meiotic division show an incidence of aneuploidy , varying with dose , of up to 20 per cent ( Nature , vol 302 , p 258 ) . |
| 18 | The car also represents the second full-scale collaboration between Rover and its Japanese partner Honda , which has shared design and development costs . |
| 19 | I mean the second main paymaster of myself , you know , is the university , in fact , and erm without them I do n't suppose I could have sort of financed the extra side of sort of clothing and everything else for my mayoralty . |
| 20 | Lawrence insisted that the Ayresome Park outfit could still catch second-placed Leicester and snatch the second automatic promotion spot . |
| 21 | This highlights the second major difficulty with the theories , the general assumption that there is a unitary dimension of arousal . |
| 22 | Over 18,000 people , almost double last year 's attendance , visited the second annual Salon du Dessin de Collection , organised by seventeen leading Paris drawings dealers in basement rooms at the Hôtel George V from 31 March to 6 April . |
| 23 | Arrows provide a second linear means of expressing movement , and therefore the passage of time upon a canvas . |
| 24 | Morrissey , in particular , found a second artistic release in his talent for dominating interviews . |
| 25 | Some people have moved out of towns to live in the countryside , sometimes adopting a second part-time job in the rural area , while many inhabitants of rural areas have been able to obtain jobs in towns . |
| 26 | France had been hoping for a Kinnock victory , to provide a second socialist power in one of the leading EC countries to act as an ally for President Mitterrand at summit talks . |
| 27 | Thanks to the determination and vision of Canadian Bob Spence and friends , the world has a second airworthy Fairey Swordfish . |
| 28 | If MPs have their way , these latest allegations could mean that the company soon has a second public inquiry on its hands . |
| 29 | It also needs a second additive to help it dissolve and raises the vapour pressure of petrol , which can cause havoc with a car 's Fuel pumping system . |
| 30 | Once one army had been crushed , the efficient German rail system was to convey the victorious troops to engage the second Russian army . |