Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the colleagues I have mentioned so far either abstained or voted against the Second Reading of the Maastricht Bill . |
| 2 | I di I dive off the first board but I could n't even jump or drop off the second board . |
| 3 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 4 | The net result has been a marked resurgence of the disease in many parts of the world to what some people , including the famous American malariologist Paul Russel , consider to be levels that existed before the Second World War . |
| 5 | He certainly had a Herculean task to maintain any consistency of policy among an immensely disparate collection of politicians , constituting , I think , one of the most brilliant Cabinets of our time , short of the Cabinet that served after the Second World War . |
| 6 | Aware of the concern felt by many in his audience of European parliamentarians about the potential power of a united Germany , Mr Shevardnadze went out of his way to express agreement with President Franois Mitterrand that ‘ no European country can act without due regard for the European balance , without taking into account the interests of others and the existing historical situation that resulted from the second world war ’ . |
| 7 | Indeed , its constituent elements characterised and were inherited from the tradition of labourism that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century ( Saville 1973 ) . |
| 8 | Furthermore , two-earner couples enjoy greater allowances ( 2.6SA ) than single-earner couples ( 1.6SA ) , a provision that dates from the Second World War when there was a policy to encourage married women to work . |
| 9 | They were fledged and flown by the second week in February , is this a record ? |
| 10 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
| 11 | The ensemble includes two flutes , one doubling piccolo : Mozart never wrote a serenade for wind using flutes , but of course The Magic Flute there had to be flutes , Papageno 's pipes too , represented at the very beginning of the first movement , and returning in the second movement , by the piccolo . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) In this paragraph ’ financial year ’ means the period beginning with the date on which the Funding Council is established and ending with the second 31st March following that date , and each successive period of twelve months . |
| 13 | British politics in the 1930s were often disillusioning for the labour movement , starting with the defection of the Labour Party 's leadership and the Party 's electoral eclipse , and ending with the Second World War , which destroyed the party 's hope of peace through disarmament and the League of Nations . |
| 14 | And , using all his force , he ran and crashed into the second assassin , who was winching back the arbalest for another bolt . |
| 15 | Many of these features of the modern world were only the surface manifestations of the much greater structural changes begun in early industrialism and accelerated since the Second World War . |
| 16 | Well might and wait till the second of July and get it all second hand . |
| 17 | The British pairing of Colette Hall and local girl Sarah Loosemore was unable to win a set in the doubles against Lisa Albano and Emmons , despite leading 5–4 and serving in the second . |
| 18 | These topics are developed and broadened in the second year and more emphasis is placed on rigour and abstraction . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 21 | The information from the first Panel Survey supplied in the form of grids as well as reports is being analysed to ensure that necessary modifications to the approach or to the methodology will be identified and approved before the second Panel Survey , which is due to start in the autumn . |
| 22 | They left within two days of his release , leaving me tired , dazed , relieved and waiting for the Second Son to come ‘ home ’ for yet another week-end . |
| 23 | They 've got to keep working and going for the second ball . |
| 24 | A foreigner , and housed on the second floor of the hospital block in the cell that it was said had held the pilot Gary Powers and the businessman Greville Wynne . |
| 25 | A further consignment of goods was ordered and supplied against the second stolen cheque , Mr. Gilberd having agreed to the transaction without further inquiry . |
| 26 | Lopsided and vulnerable , he tried to climb the barrage and get to the second balloon . |
| 27 | Gary 's neat and composed approach was enjoyed by the discerning fans but some Palace supporters found it difficult to accept this refined talent in the hustle and bustle of the Second Division of the mid-1980s . |
| 28 | And I 'm going to talk about , and make do and mend in the second world war . |
| 29 | the secretary and as semi-executive now does not apply to this I would suggest that somebody , unconstitutionally , intervenes the Synod advocate and ignore this resolution and continue with the second Saturday of March and the second Saturday in April . |
| 30 | Then they replaced the nonfiction temporarily , as the volumes came to hand , and started on the second half . |