Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] the second " in BNC.

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1 It 's quite amusing , the England players have erm , got a second row and he 's not big enough to play in the second row for England
2 However , what an owner sees as his due rights may be seen by others as undue privilege ; and where the general interest is material enough to insist on the second alternative , it may with whatever necessary degree of consideration and justice , seek to override the first .
3 Moodie , despite a clutch problem on his Honda , closed within four seconds at Ramsey on the final lap , but the 37 year-old Reid put the power down and pulled away to win for the second successive year .
4 The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War .
5 If we go back to the education example , and suppose that the first vote is between L and M , then if the rich vote sincerely L wins , and in the second round H defeats L. On the other hand , if the rich had voted for M in the first round , then M would have gone on to win in the second round .
6 and then we use this method to then go a stage further to prepare for the second presentation .
7 Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference .
8 Rabobank NV and Amsterdam-based Getronics NV have teamed up to bid for the second Dutch Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular licence .
9 Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment .
10 Even though the Irish need a point in Valetta to clinch their first appearance in the finals , Charlton has agreed for Galvin to stay behind to play for the Second Division side in their Littlewoods Cup third-round second replay at Bolton .
11 Absolutely , does it make sense for , for husband and wife over there to wait for the second one to have a heart attack , or the second one to have a cancer before it pays out ,
12 Kingsley says he 's not sure whether the hunger is there to win for the second year .
13 ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling .
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