Example sentences of "[prep] [art] second [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 So , while for the first of these two failures Owen may be criticised , for the second he must be excused .
2 This means that for the first one the doubt is ‘ simple ’ and can be cleared up in a straightforward way , but for the second it is ‘ compound ’ and needs much greater care .
3 The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty .
4 He had been keenly interested in the first : about the second he was much intrigued .
5 After an even opening session and a terrific toe to toe burst at the start of the second it was Oakes who took a grip with McGrath soaking up a steady stream of hard right-hand shots .
6 In the first half he twice denied Cantona with excellent saves and shortly into the second he beat out another effort by the Frenchman .
7 In the first case we need a level ‘ above ’ physiology and in the second we need a level ‘ below ’ reasoning .
8 In the second we are describing the spatial distribution of people , not one person : this is the Euler method .
9 In the first , which we cover in this section , we examine the relationship between spot and forward exchange rates , and in the second we examine the relationship between the rates of return on assets with differing terms .
10 We have also presented two examples of how rational expectations introduce testable restrictions : in the first we examined the relationship between the spot and the forward exchange rates and in the second we examined the implications for the term structure of interest rates .
11 In the first and the third of these phases , roles and statuses are carefully distinguished ; in the second they are confused , " we " and " they " are mixed up , behaviour which would be outrageous in ordinary life becomes normal and even obligatory .
12 We restricted Apoel to one good chance in the first half and in the second they created little from open play .
13 In one case you are a pupil in the second you are a friend .
14 In the first picture he catches John Snow off Daniel 's bowling and in the second he celebrates as Murray catches Alan Ward off Holding .
15 He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie .
16 In the first he regards it as antithetical to analytical reason , as truth to error , while in the second he sees it as complementary to it .
17 So Harrison had lost the first fall unfairly : in the second he had twisted his man feet up and then let him crash to the ground .
18 In the first , he had been robbed of something on which he had set his heart ; in the second he was robbed of his life .
19 In the second he stood bareheaded , dressed in a swirling black cloak , fastened at the throat by a gold and enamel clasp .
20 In the first instance he was guilty of carelessness ; in the second he exposed Gough 's lack of match fitness and the defender 's mistake put Verheyen through on Goram though he was unable to score .
21 And Sam says , ‘ Well , in the first one I liked this moment , and in the second I liked this . ’
22 In the first the academic community denied the possibility of a biological basis of mind at all , in the second it denied the existence of mind and in the third , into which we have now entered , we are coming to accept both the existence and physical basis of the mind .
23 In the second it is the movement of objects .
24 Whitehouse 's was not primarily an attack on homosexuals : it was in the first instance an attack on the imputation of a sexual context to Christ 's death ; in the second it was a confrontation with an anti-Christian and , to her , sexually-obsessed society , and it was this latter symbolic aspect to the events of the blasphemy trial which was the main point .
25 In one case what counts is the ‘ objective positions ’ which ‘ white people ’ as such occupy within the ‘ racist power structure ’ ; in the second it is their socialization , or cultural traditions which racializes their relationships to blacks .
26 In the case of the first question the verb is thematicized ; in the second it is rhematic and is substituted for by a categorical verb , i.e. to do .
27 In the first case counselling has failed to protect others and in the second it has failed to protect the person counselled .
28 In the first term , colour is the theme , in the second it 's shape and third texture .
29 Bolinger himself expresses the difference between the two types of qualification as follows : " In the first , which is referent-modification , it [ the adjective ] is restricted by the CATEGORY of the noun ; in the second it may or may not be …
30 In the first the computer threw up the names , in the second it allocated the numbers .
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