Example sentences of "[v-ing] from the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bibliography , with abbreviations used in the text , is comprehensive and covers one hundred and twenty works ranging from the second edition of the commentaries on Dioscorides 's Materia medica by Pierandrea Mattioli , printed in Venice in 1558 , to the second edition of Linnaeus 's Species Plantarum , published in Stockholm in 1765 . |
| 2 | This delightful musical adaptation of ‘ James and the Giant Peach ’ will have feet tapping from the second the curtain rises . |
| 3 | The row of intense structures increasing diagonally at higher α values is from scattering from the second and third atomic layers which are not symmetrical about the azimuth , as are all of the recoil structures . |
| 4 | It is one of the capital 's earliest Gothic buildings , dating from the second half of the 13C , and is one of the earliest surviving synagogues in Europe . |
| 5 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | Several of Sisley 's early paintings dating from the second half of the 1860s were accepted for display in the official Salon , but during the 1870s he began to paint in a fully fledged Impressionist style characterized by pure colours applied with broken brush strokes and bright light . |
| 7 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 8 | Dunlop was always in control of this race leading from the second lap and after that it just was n't a race . |
| 9 | From the liberal wing of the Ukrainian Communist Party , Fokin was regarded as a compromise candidate and was elected unopposed in the third ballot ( he had re-entered the contest after withdrawing from the second ballot ) , after the communist hardliners ' candidate , Aleksandr Bulyanda , had been persuaded to stand down . |
| 10 | A London that was still , 25 years after the event , recovering from the Second World War . |
| 11 | They are coming from the second and third generations of families who have migrated to this country , families who have encouraged their children to enter the professions and vocations as lawyers , doctors , nurses and local government officers and to retain their competence in their own language . |
| 12 | What emerges is a kind of fundamentalist dynastic priesthood associated with the principle of a Davidic Messiah and extending from the second century B.C. through the period covered by the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 13 | Another significant development emerging from the second survey is the extent of joint working and collaboration with other agencies . |
| 14 | Reforms in US monetary policy from 1979 — which led to much tighter monetary conditions and higher interest rates — paved the way for a resurgence in the dollar in the early 1980s , supported by the increased demands arising from the second oil crisis . |
| 15 | The unification of Germany in 1990 left the Korean peninsula as the sole surviving example of formal partition originating from the Second World War . |
| 16 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |