Example sentences of "[adv] on the second " in BNC.

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1 The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile .
2 On the other hand they indicated that former President Giscard d'Estaing ( UDF ) was likely to do better on the second ballot by taking centrist votes , with the result that , in late 1990 , the UDF seemed less concerned to reach an agreement .
3 There was a light on in the hall , and apparently on the second floor , though that might be a landing .
4 Especially on the second night , I had the feeling that he wanted to talk , and what made it the more interesting was the variety of his experiences and the mature way in which he alluded to them .
5 The traditional cultural and pedagogic role ascribed to television appeared undermined by the increasing stress on entertainment-led programming ( especially on the second channel , 1964 ) , and the developing competition ( 1969–70 ) between the two channels .
6 So on the second stage of the refurbishment they 're going to pay for the lot ?
7 What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged .
8 It was only on the second and third day after the tragedy that the family slowly began to realise how many other people had been sitting around in shocked disbelief at the news .
9 The change in depends only on the second derivatives at x , and so these derivatives must embody the curvature information .
10 Only on the second occasion was he searched and found with a gun .
11 We hope that you will continue to provide us with this vital information as we embark together on the second piloting year .
12 The K2s got away on the second attempt .
13 The tentacle pores are large ; the tentacle scales are large leaf shaped and there are two on the first arm pore and sometimes also on the second .
14 ‘ They 're both on the second floor now .
15 Now there is a fourth , organised by The Cleveland Museum for its seventy-fifth anniversary in conjunction with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux and the Louvre , and now on the second stage of its tour at the Kimbell Art Museum .
16 His quickest time for a 30-question puzzle was three-and-a-half minutes , which he did in the national championships though doing less well on the second puzzle meant he missed coming top .
17 He was supposed to be down here on the second part of a double shift .
18 God knows how I did n't kill myself and the sheer of the whole thing was , it was n't even on the second floor , it was on the ground floor , they were just pulling a .
19 Things change dramatically on the second repetition , however .
20 When the stem has two syllables the stress is sometimes on the first , sometimes on the second syllable of the stem .
21 Then on the second day , when the pitch should have been easier , only Richards , with 51 , looked convincing and the last eight wickets fell steadily .
22 Then on the second day , Nicklaus puts it stone-dead at the 5th and so he 's taken just three shots for the 5th !
23 Jump onto the lift to your right , then on the second lift , and finally onto a platform ( watch out for the bare wires ) , climb down the site of this second building if you wish to collect a couple of records , but it 's quicker and safer to climb up the purple wall above you and climb the four ladders , grab the crate and jump onto the platform on your left , kill the mugger , climb the ladder and grab another crate , climb another ladder , then another kill the workman in the process , run across to the right , jump before you touch the wire and you should land on the next platform .
24 Then on the second piece arrange the pattern so that you get four complete repeats and a half-pattern at the left , that is the N1 cam goes between needles 6 and 7 on the right of the machine ( Fig 5 ) .
25 Apart from the Harris 's hawks , we did n't get a chance to pick up any more birds until late on the second day .
26 They finally reached the edge of the ancient lake late on the second day of their journey up the river , and in company they had not expected to attract .
27 Firstly on the second page , number fifty eight , the Education Act in the middle of page one nine four four , refers to schools used and maintained by the local authority .
28 It is probably safest for foreign learners to assume that stress will normally fall in this way on other compounds ; however , a variety of compounds receive stress instead on the second element .
29 Suppose the manager instead goes ahead on the second .
30 When actually did you sustain your your burns , and you said that was actually on the second blast ,
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