Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the second [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan Bromberg describes in some detail the US 's preparation for the Second International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy . |
| 2 | It began on Oct. 1 after tens of thousands of nationalists opposed to communist party domination of the Ukrainian government had taken part for the second consecutive day in demonstrations in Kiev . |
| 3 | The vital signs of the patients were checked every hour for the first 12 hours , every two hours for the second 12 hours , and every four hours for the following 24 hours until they became stable , and then four times daily . |
| 4 | The proposal to close Seacombe Ferry comes a week after the revitalised service won a top tourist award for the second successive year . |
| 5 | Hot shot : Rangers striker Ally McCoist has won the Adidas Golden Boot award for the second consecutive season . |
| 6 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 7 | Defeat would virtually assure the Belgians of a place in the finals in America , while forcing the Welsh to join Czechoslovakia and the unpredictable Romanians in a mad scramble for the second qualifying place . |
| 8 | The mixed probes for the largest subunit hybridized with fragment SD , and more specifically , with the smaller subclones RT and RN' ; the mixture of probes for the second largest subunit recognized fragment SB , and fragment RK within the former one ( data not shown ) . |
| 9 | The world champion , who trails in fifth place in the driver 's championship with only four points , incurred the wrath on Sunday of German newcomer Michael Schumacher , who finished third behind the two Williams drivers for the second successive race . |
| 10 | Merit is defined by the hierarchy of metals from which they are struck : gold for the winner , silver for the second best and bronze for the third ( fig. 43 ) . |
| 11 | In his annual report to the nation on Nov. 1 setting out goals for the second three years of his six-year presidential term , President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed radical reforms of agriculture , the education system and the status of the church based on changes to the 1917 Constitution . |
| 12 | BORIS BECKER disappointed his West German supporters for the second consecutive year when a knee injury forced him to withdraw from the Stuttgart Classic here yesterday . |
| 13 | ENGLAND 's Mark Foster wrote his name in the record books for the second successive day when he set a European short-course 50 metres freestyle record at a World Cup meeting in Gelsenkirchen , Germany , yesterday . |
| 14 | Davis Love III , the American , slipped from second place with a one-over-par 73 for 138 , and another American , Mark Calcavecchia , missed the cut for the second successive tournament . |
| 15 | It is generally assumed that endogenous LH release occurs IS -20 h after the midpoint of the second dark period following PMSG administration . |
| 16 | Clifford Allen , who quickly emerged as the political and spiritual leader of the movement , saw in the collapse of the Second International : |
| 17 | The collapse of the Second International under the impact of the First World War , which dealt a severe blow to socialist illusions , demonstrated the need for an alternative solution to the workers ' plight . |
| 18 | The problems which unemployment presented to political parties and governments have already been outlined ; the dramatic high-points being the collapse of the second Labour government in August 1931 and the abandonment of the gold standard in September 1931 . |
| 19 | The economic problems caused by unemployment led to the collapse of the second Labour government . |
| 20 | But Baldwin weathered these political storms with some adroitness and found that the economic policies he favoured emerged , almost naturally , out of the collapse of the second Labour government in August 1931 . |
| 21 | On the outbreak of the second Dutch war in 1664 Stokes was recalled to the navy as captain of the Triumph , but he fell ill soon afterwards and died in Portsmouth 11 February 1665 . |
| 22 | By the outbreak of the second Welsh war in March 1282 Rhuddlan was complete and the others well advanced ; James proceeded to Aberystwyth ad castrum regis ibidem construendum ; in July 1282 he ordered the demolition of the old keep at Hope . |
| 23 | ‘ The problem of women is all that is marvellous and troubling in the world ’ sighed Andre Breton in the second Surrealist manifesto of 1929 ; and just as the predominantly male membership saw woman as their muse , the fueller of their fantasies and liberators of their imaginations , so they used her body as a vessel and vehicle for their wildest and often dark plumbings of the subconscious . |
| 24 | The lapis lazuli scarab from the Second Grave Circle outside the citadel of Mycenae argues that Egypt was one source of supply . |
| 25 | At an IOWME ( International Organisation of Women and Mathematics Education ) discussion group in 1986 ( see Isaacson , Rogers and Dekker , 1986 ) , Gila Hanna reported on a gender analysis she and Erika Kuendiger had carried out on data from the Second International Mathematics Study ( SIMS ) . |
| 26 | Leicester could have gone up behind Ipswich on Saturday in the second automatic promotion spot in Division Two had they won at Charlton and Middlesbrough lost at home to Bristol Rovers . |
| 27 | Graeme Alderson , who acted as a route-setter for the event , reports on the action from the second international indoor climbing competition on the world circuit to be staged in Britain |
| 28 | Lily held out a dimpled hand with a flashy ring on the second plump finger . |
| 29 | Right , so other words one A M on the second that 's right . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , this does not shed much light on the second apparent paradox . |