Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the second [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three common grades of olive oil : extra virgin , which is thick and green , and cold-pressed with an acidity of less than 1% ; virgin , which is green and cold-pressed but with up to 4% acidity , and fine olive oil , for general cooking , which is heat treated during the second pressing to extract the maximum oil from the fruit and often blended with other olive oils . |
| 2 | Average property yields have fallen for the second consecutive quarter to 9.2pc , according to property agent Hillier Parker . |
| 3 | WALL Street plunged for the second straight session yesterday on fears that shares are overpriced as well as jitters about the continuing haemorrhaging on the Tokyo stock market . |
| 4 | The standard rate of SSP is frozen for the second successive year at £52.50 a week . |
| 5 | Armed with my definition of a manager and my time-span measuring instrument , I then bumped into the second surprising finding — repeatedly confirmed — about layering in managerial hierarchies : the boundaries between successive managerial layers occur at certain specific time-span increments , just as ice changes to water and water to steam at certain specific temperatures . |
| 6 | Questionnaires received after 8 November are being added to the data file , and revised estimates of key variables will be included in the second interim report In June 1985 , along with information from the planned follow-up study . |
| 7 | The number of " major " incidents of water pollution declined by 41 per cent in 1991 , from 658 to 386 , according to figures contained in the second annual report by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) . |
| 8 | The highly-rated defender , who has brought League scouts flocking to the Huish , looks certain to miss the game after being booked in the second round replay triumph at Hereford . |
| 9 | Zhelev 's victory came in the second round run-off , when he won 53 per cent of the vote against 47 per cent for Velko Valkanov , an independent supported by the ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party . |
| 10 | The minor age differences between zircons and other kimberlite minerals may result from the second magmatic pulse required to account for the disruption and deformation of MARID nodules before they are incorporated in the final erupted kimberlite . |
| 11 | Both presented at the Second Annual General Meeting , October 1908 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Reciprocal altruism ’ is envisaged as the second main form of social behaviour . |
| 14 | A further consignment of goods was ordered and supplied against the second stolen cheque , Mr. Gilberd having agreed to the transaction without further inquiry . |
| 15 | This in turn links with the second great issue : just how , and to whom , should the council of ministers — and , by extension , the EC central bank — be accountable . |
| 16 | This challenge to the assumption that the revolution can be understood primarily by studying the major actors on the political scene leads to the second major theme addressed by revisionist work : the impact made by ordinary men and women upon political developments . |
| 17 | This leads to the second main characteristic of the retrovizor in Thru : unlike the Lacanian mirror , it is flawed , causing it to reflect not two but four eyes , two in their correct position and two further up the brow ( 1–3/579–81 ) . |
| 18 | Top price in the dairy ring of £1,130 was paid for a choice calved Friesian heifer and a calved Ayrshire heifer sold at the second top price of £1,070 . |
| 19 | That eventful first full year of 1908 finished with the second Annual General Meeting in October and the presentation of the First Annual Report and Financial Statement — copies of both have luckily survived , as has the bondholders ' account which deals with the course and clubhouse construction . |
| 20 | Speaking at the second full discussion of the ‘ Delors Two ’ budget among the 12 foreign ministers , Mr Garel-Jones said the increase was unnecessary in view of the extra cash already available . |
| 21 | On Sunday , the racing starts with the Support class followed by the first Open race , then the second 125–200cc , the 600cc , the Junior ( 250–350–400cc ) followed by the second Classic race , and the Enkalon Grand Final which sees most of the riders on the line and McCallen out to repeat his win of last year . |
| 22 | Paul Beck , Ackers Trust Canoe Club Chairman , receives the Stand Club Trophy for the greatest participation in the Strand Touring Awards scheme for the second successive year . |
| 23 | One of these subjects may be offered to qualify for the Second Level Group Certificate in Book-keeping and accounts . |
| 24 | Now we talk about the second successive clean sheet , the first for United what , Wednesday night against Milwall since October the twentieth , so what 's happened to stop the goals going in ? |
| 25 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
| 26 | ( ‘ The first assistant director , ’ he says when I query his qualifications for the role , ‘ just had to shout at the second assistant director . ’ ) |
| 27 | With the end of that accumulatory episode we arrive at the second resultant stratigraphical situation as suggested in " 7 " . |
| 28 | As a result of the bad weather , the Royal Bank of Scotland 's oil index fell for the second consecutive month to 114.5 , the second lowest January since the index began ten years ago . |
| 29 | The adoral shields are wing-like with the proximal edge indented opposite the second oral tentacle pore and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 30 | ‘ He went under the second bookable offence rule , ’ stormed McCarthy . |