Example sentences of "[pron] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most notably these have included , first , a concern with income distribution and the need to combat ‘ absolute ’ poverty , triggered by McNamara in 1973 ; and second , the need to finance the trade deficits , and consequent ‘ adjustment ’ , of the many African countries for whom the second oil price rise of 1979 was a near fatal blow . |
| 2 | First , if the specimen is subjected to axial stress — as well as the twist , then as Biot ( 1939 ) has shown , Equation ( 5.3 ) needs to be modified so that where is the applied torque and I the second moment of area of the cross-section with respect to the twist axis . |
| 3 | Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping . |
| 4 | The quality of being meaningful and unified , which the second passage has but the first passage lacks , is known as coherence . |
| 5 | Garvey 's clarification requests depend on a contingency pair analysis in which the second speaker comments on the utterance of the first speaker by asking for a measure of clarification . |
| 6 | A different type of two-part problem is one in which the second part commences : ‘ Would it make any difference to your answer if … ? ’ |
| 7 | Ski with a friend and make some fairly short-radius turns which the second skier will try to emulate at exactly the same moment ( ie turn at the same time rather than follow the same track ) . |
| 8 | For the appropriate timing for such an application , see Ginera Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 , in which the Second Division considered it would be " odd " if an applicant who had only a provisional grant of a licence , could have permission for Sunday opening before the licence for the premises was in force . |
| 9 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 10 | By a consent order dated 1 July 1988 the proceedings against the second defendant were stayed , pursuant to an agreement between the plaintiff and the second defendant , entered into by the second defendant in ignorance of the plaintiff 's agreement with the first defendant , under which the second defendant paid the plaintiff £18,000 and costs . |
| 11 | At present there are over 500 contributing institutions , of which the second defendant is one . |
| 12 | The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind . |
| 13 | With these we may compare the more primitive diagrams of reactions set out in an earlier and elementary work , J. B. Scoffern 's Chemistry no Mystery , of which the second edition was published in 1848 . |
| 14 | They had been selected from a pile of ‘ sets ’ which the Second Son had gleaned from the finest merchants in Abu Dhabi and brought to the Sheikha . |
| 15 | There are accents of English ( for example Welsh accents ) in which the second syllable sounds most like the in the first syllable of ‘ easy ’ , and others ( for example Yorkshire accents ) in which it sounds more like the in the first syllable of ‘ busy ’ . |
| 16 | " In general , Lenneberg 's ( 1967 ) contention that the extent to which a speaker will have a foreign accent correlates fairly well with the age at which the second language is learned has received extensive confirmation . |
| 17 | its the second leg of the first round of the coca cola cup tomorrow night … |
| 18 | Its the second blow in as many months for Noteman who missed out on a glamour trip to Barcelona with the Irish over-35 team for the same reason . |
| 19 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 20 | The lesions may present at any age and they have always been recorded as solitary , except in one case , and possibly in anothr , in which a second polyp was resected from the site of anastomosis of the previous operation six months before . |
| 21 | Of the 9,009 papers those on which a second preference was indicated were transferred in the same way as Paisley 's surplus . |
| 22 | The figure by which a second borrower 's income can be multiplied , or by which the two incomes added may be multiplied . |
| 23 | It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage . |
| 24 | The first mineral to crystallize is usually olivine , which carries on crystallizing as the magma cools until a temperature is reached at which a second mineral , pyroxene , begins to appear , and then , as the temperature drops still further , these two continue to crystallize together . |
| 25 | When he was gone Klaus Ebert went across to the decanter and poured himself a second brandy . |
| 26 | On the outbreak of World War I Herbert joined the Irish Guards , despite his near-blindness , by the simple method of buying himself a second lieutenant 's uniform and falling in as the regiment boarded ship for France in August 1914 . |
| 27 | Ballot papers on which no second preference is indicated clearly can not be transferred . |
| 28 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 29 | It throws into combat the best players from all corners of the country and , unlike the old final trial game , it gives you a second chance if you play badly first time out . |
| 30 | And you are left in this condition during the operation , then at the end of the operation they give you a second injection that reverses the first one that paralysed you . |