Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have some hesitation about accepting the second leg of the ratio decidendi in the circumstances but that is certainly the way in which Fox L.J . |
| 2 | Dalglish is concerned after seeing the Second Division table-toppers manage just one win in their last seven games . |
| 3 | A fair result in the end , Leeds dominated most of the second half especially after scoring the second goal — however a number of players had poor days on the whole ( Macca , Strach , White ) and some had a downright shit day — Deane and Hodge . |
| 4 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 5 | David Rigby , the Wirral 's Director of education , after attending the second session of the workshop , said he intended to take the lead in setting up structures within the education administration to promote the issues of service level agreements , quality assurance and total quality systems . |
| 6 | After spending the second night in a hotel in Bristol , she awoke to find the streets and rooftops covered in snow . |
| 7 | Shortly after having the second baby , I chose to be sterilised . |
| 8 | After winning the second game , Timman immediately offered a draw in the unfinished opening game of the match . |
| 9 | Werder Bremen knocked the holders Napoli out of the Uefa Cup last night , 8-3 on aggregate after winning the second leg 5-1 . |
| 10 | Midfielder David Batty is battling to be fit for tomorrow 's trip to Aston Villa after missing the second half of Saturday 's win with a damaged calf . |
| 11 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 12 | Well Nick , you have n't got the benefit of seeing the second division table in front of you . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | However , despite launching the second wave of UDCs amidst government promotional hype proclaiming LDDC and MDC a success story , there has been scant attention paid in government circles to any rigorous analysis of the London and Liverpool experience . |
| 15 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 16 | He said that there were three preconditions for happiness — stupidity , selfishness and good health — and that he was only sure of possessing the second of these . |
| 17 | You 'd of got the second one would n't you ? |
| 18 | The only trouble was that in the course of compiling the second inventory the missing artworks were found in a cupboard in one of the museum 's corridors . |
| 19 | However , if one has a black hole around , there seems to be a rather easier way of violating the second law : just throw some matter with a lot of entropy , such as a box of gas , down the black hole . |
| 20 | The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair . |
| 21 | So what has been suggested is that er we examine the possibility of centralising the second line facilities that are normally provided on every base and only do that at perhaps two bases . |
| 22 | It had stood up , of course , and I had the confidence of the first two rounds now , of having the second fastest time behind Carl and of beating Ben . |
| 23 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 24 | But Paul came home happy , his blue eyes brilliant as they had been when they first met ; full of his new employment , the prospect of having the second book read , the kindness of the Professor in going to visit Mr Lamprey himself . |
| 25 | Example 103 , from No. 7 of Karg-Elert 's Interludes in Various Keys for organ , shows a mixture of diatonic and chromatic substitution notes typical of this composer : The student will be able to analyse this for himself , but he should beware of treating the second chord in the penultimate bar , or the first chord in the last bar , as triads in their own right . |
| 26 | Last season , of course , we fancied our chances of reaching the second round quite comfortably as our opening opponents were lowly Hellingborough . |
| 27 | The result revives Swindon 's flagging hopes of reaching the Second Division promotion playoffs . |
| 28 | Thus , the study emphasises the role of social attitudes in second language learning , ie. attitudes towards learning the second language itself and towards the native speakers who make up the second language community . |
| 29 | In Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 the court was concerned with the process of making the second decision ( though the division into the two periods of detention was not then clear ) . |
| 30 | The Crues made a positive step towards making the second stage of the TNT Gold Cup with a 3– win over Omagh Town in their first group match on Saturday . |