Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This is why video makers who wish to run third generation copies off second generation edited masters use super-format tapes for all their work . |
2 | The rules have been changed this season to give fans of Second Division sides the opportunity to see first-class opponents . |
3 | It is unwise to attempt to tackle these various aspects of second stage recovery in any great depth before the completion of a full two years of recovery from primary or family disease because emotional and spiritual recovery may not yet be sufficiently secure to be able to take on these further challenges . |
4 | Cells have definite lines of descent and these lines are branching , so words like second cousin can be used of cells in a body without apology . ) |
5 | Stopped for two months under second Waverley criterion . |
6 | Stopped for two months under second Waverley criterion . |
7 | Stopped for two months under second Waverley criterion . |
8 | Stopped for two months under second Waverley criterion . |
9 | Stopped for two months under second Waverley criterion . |
10 | Deliberate programmes of staff development in individual schools and community language units clearly can not solve all of the problems mentioned by the participants in the NCMTT Workshop : good will and voluntary effort will never be enough to eradicate popular conceptions of second class status as they affect community languages . |
11 | THE sons of Second World War foes Montgomery and Rommel stood together in friendship yesterday . |
12 | San Diego , at 7-5 , are tied with Denver Broncos for second place in the AFC West . |
13 | ‘ Andy ( Roxburgh ) and myself always thought that Switzerland and Italy had to be considered the favourites to qualify but there is now a dog-eat-dog contest involving three countries for second place , ’ said Brown . |
14 | One involved the successful launch of its cookery book , Cooking to Please , and the other was because it won the contract to provide in-house catering to the main council sites for second time . |
15 | He will have trials with second division Wigan next week . |
16 | Mehew 's contribution probably surprised the scouts , who were almost certainly in Bath to watch Penrice and Nigel Martyn , but it is a fair reflection of his part in pushing Rovers into second place . |
17 | But the continuing slowdown in the economy , coupled with a rise in unemployment to an all-time record of just on 3 million ( 10.5 per cent of the workforce ) , has pushed these concerns into second place . |
18 | By the time negotiations finally got under way at Fontainebleau , elections for the new Constituent Assembly in France had resulted in a victory for the Catholic MRP , with the Communists in second place , and heavy losses for the French Socialist party . |
19 | Speakers of less originality , and writers too , pick up these phrases at second hand and use them until their first fire and punch are worn away . |
20 | If you talk to women in the sort of project where she 's working , I think you do get a very strong picture of people who have very little confidence in themselves and certainly think that education is not for them , and if you then look at projects like second chance for women , there 's a range of access projects , particularly for for people who want to get back into education when they think that they 've had precious little chance to get anything out of education when they were at school themselves . |
21 | It 's the Government 's view that since toy safetly legislation was introduced in 1967 , buyers of second hand toys should be able to expect the same level of safety as those buying new toys . |
22 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |
23 | The plaintiffs were dealers in second hand lorries and agreed to transfer to the defendants two lorries for £475 and take in exchange two other lorries valued at £225 , provided they were delivered within one month . |
24 | America climbed back to the top of the exporters ' league table after three years in second place to West Germany . |
25 | We had one day on the Queen 's Speech , and now we have had two full days on Second Reading . |
26 | Although some theorists , in their desire to reproduce the course of first language development , have scorned the relevance of these abilities to second language development , it seems foolish to take no account of them , especially as we can not stop older students from seeking awareness of the rules governing the material they are trying to learn . |
27 | The shoulder straps were still the transverse type worn since 1861 ; they were of branch facing colour bordered with gold braid , and for ranks above second lieutenant bore applied metal insignia of rank as illustrated in the accompanying pattern drawing . |
28 | He reckons some of the maths questions would cause problems for second year pupils at secondary level , that the paper calls for a high reading standard and that some of the questions could be ambiguous . |
29 | Bullen served in over twenty-five ships , rising to able seaman , and , after passing the examinations for second mate and first mate , in those capacities when such employment offered . |
30 | The European Parliament should be given further additional powers : powers to initiate proposals for legislation , which would be considered by the Commission and the Council of Ministers ; powers of second reading on social and environmental decisions by the Council of Ministers . |