Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem has delayed the second phase by 18 months . |
| 2 | It seems that the professional game , in contrast to our European and world rivals , has revered the second tenet but stifled the first . |
| 3 | England has won the second Test at Wanganui by four wickets : during the match , Carole Hodges became the fifth Englishwoman to score 1000 Test runs . |
| 4 | Since that January night , Hillary has undergone the second stage of her transformation . |
| 5 | This year , footsteps have been spotted exiting from Cold Hole ( Fuar Tholl , Hard V ) , and I have n't heard who has made the second ascent , and it bugs me ! |
| 6 | The TOP improvement team at Hunterston considering ways to extend GOMIS from a maintenance planning system to one capable of works resource planning across the station has used the second stage of the ‘ Brown Paper ’ technique described in last months edition of Scottish Nuclear News . |
| 7 | SunSoft Inc also says that it has reached the second milestone in its Project DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 8 | Waltham Forest health authority , which includes Mr Norman Tebbit 's Chingford constituency , in Essex , has become the second health authority to call for an end to the dispute by either negotiation or arbitration . |
| 9 | In Britain local authority ( council ) housing has become the second largest sector of the housing market , holding considerable social significance in local areas . |
| 10 | They coincide with news that Gosforth First School in Newcastle has become the second school in the country to ask parents to pay £30 each to cover a £9,000 shortfall in the budget . |
| 11 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 12 | The Appeal Court labelled the first trial a ‘ costly disaster ’ never to be repeated ; as a result , the SFO has abandoned the second one . |
| 13 | More recently , he has emphasised the second view , stating ( 1982b ) " rather than 'decreolisation' , we have : variation within Creole ; variation within English , as well as switching between the two … |
| 14 | Britain has chosen the second option . |
| 15 | By saying , " How odd " in response to McKendrick 's giving of his own name he fails to provide the second pair part of the adjacency pair ( Schegloff and Sacks 1973 ) which constitutes a greeting . |
| 16 | Knighton recall batsman Alan Williams and bowler Doug Williams for the trip to Bromyard while captain Dave Lisvesly returns to lead the second team at home to Bromyard seconds . |
| 17 | Yeah Mark apparently he 's got the second biggest cock that this had ever seen . |
| 18 | MERV HUGHES took the final wicket with just half an hour remaining as Australia beat Sri Lanka by 173 runs to win the second Test in Hobart yesterday . |
| 19 | Laura Davies , whose aim at the beginning of the year was to win on both sides of the Atlantic , again attempts to complete the second leg of her target . |