Example sentences of "[noun] at the second [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The mill has a large belt wheel at the second floor level and , at such a height , must have presented a few problems with the fitting of the drive belt .
2 Following the schism at the Second Party Congress ( 1903 ) , Lenin built his ‘ party of a new kind ’ .
3 In between driving lessons — she passed her test at the second attempt she was much in demand as a babysitter by her sisters ' married friends while Sarah used her to make up numbers at her frequent dinner parties .
4 FRED COUPLES won his first tournament since last year 's US Masters when he beat Robert Gamez at the second hole of a sudden-death play-off in the Honda Classic at Fort Lauderdale , Florida .
5 The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck .
6 Six readers will have the opportunity to meet the BBC Good Food team at the second BBC Good Food readers ' lunch , to be hosted by Perrier at an award-winning Les Routiers restaurant in Yorkshire .
7 But , within 60 seconds , the visitors opened the scoring when former International , Niall Sturrock , beat Larmour at the second attempt with a well placed lob after a poor clearance by Nicky Blease had produced the initial chance .
8 The England striker , Tina Cullen , continued her excellent form when she was released by Maggie Souyave and beat goalkeeper Sue Knight at the second attempt in the 53rd minute to send the match into penalties .
9 Biggerstaff 's Metro 6R4 suffered a puncture on his first run but even a courageous charge at the second attempt could n't displace Woodside at the top of the list .
10 ‘ I had my only run of the day at approximately 11 am and after setting the hooks I had a slow , dogged fight for about five minutes before netting the fish at the second attempt , ’ said Dave .
11 REPUBLIC of Ireland defender Mick McCarthy took charge of Millwall yesterday when former Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch resigned after two years at the Second Division club .
12 There was n't much to it , just painted ply over a cardboard shell , and its lock went spinning across the room at the second kick .
13 Hewett , who gave a very difficult chance to Briggs , who ran from cover point , fell to a wonderful catch at mid-on by Mold , who held the ball at the second attempt .
14 Three minutes later Simpson ran on to a back pass , he got his foot to the ball just before Gosney , he collided with the goal keeper , but full marks the goal keeper , he grabbed the ball at the second attempt , and once again , the chance had gone .
15 Social democratic policies of state intervention and Ostpolitik were now in favour with the electorate , especially among young people and , after the liberal reforms at the Second Vatican Council , even Roman Catholic voters were prepared to lend support to the SPD .
16 The referee however waved play on as McConnell at the second attempt saved Byrne 's poorly hit shot .
17 Then McCaughan saved well from Mulholland before McKeeman flicked Portrush 's equaliser over the keeper at the second attempt .
18 Britain 's Ministry of Defence was instrumental in blocking GEC 's first attempt to merge with Plessey — and in extracting concessions in return for allowing GEC , in partnership with Siemens of West Germany , to acquire Plessey at the second bite .
19 We can measure the effects of some of the problems listed earlier , by using only the observations at the second time point .
20 Jeremy Woolf and Clive Sheldon for the taxpayers at the second hearing .
21 Dmitrii Zamiatnin , the deputy Minister of Justice , and Sergei Zarudnyi , Bludov 's assistant at the Second Department , were juridical radicals , but although they registered a few successes in their quest for change ( notably the foundation of the enlightened Journal of the Ministry of Justice in 1859 ) , they needed more than idealism to convert their superiors .
22 For example , if definitions within a domain can be halved , i.e. reduced to an average of 11 words in length , the processing at the second level involves some 11 2 words , i.e. 121 or 25% of the previous total .
23 Meanwhile , Sunderland were yesterday faced with a Monday night FA Cup trek to Chelsea if they overcome West Ham at the second attempt and reach the quarter-finals .
24 On the other , we have still to wait for our final adoption at the Second Coming ( Rom. 8:23 ) .
25 This echoed the ambivalence of the original 1920 Lenin and Roy theses on the colonial question in general , formulated as an interim measure in what Lenin saw as an inconclusive debate at the Second Congress .
26 Using our criteria of abnormality ( % total time pH below 4>4.9% ) , the results were abnormal in six of the 31 patients at the second stage of the study .
27 Hawkins from Bingley is the reigning British champion , livesey finished fifth at Knockdhu last year while Kinch was runner-up at the second race of the British championship in Wales two weeks ago .
28 The necessity of job retention in healthy profitable industries such as banking and criticism of the failure to deliver on promises made a year ago of ‘ several hundred new jobs ’ were strong themes at the second Biennial Delegate Conference of the Association held in the Burlington Hotel on Saturday , 24th April 1993 .
29 Big Ben was lucky to get away with a mistake at the second fence in his warm-up round , but is likely to be more careful when it matters .
30 The national data computed for Japan ( 1979–1980 ) and that combined for the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) and Hungary ( 1976–80 ) show minimum risks of a still birth at the second birth order for women aged 25–44 years .
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