Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Toulouse also , the steadily falling value of comital coins in the second half of the century made them relevant at last to the needs of the merchant classes . |
| 2 | In one of the political meetings at the second branch a councillor had voiced typically conservative views on education , stressing the need to encourage the brightest and discourage bad behaviour by the cane . |
| 3 | Stolypin 's reforms found little sympathy in the Second Duma , which met in February 1907 . |
| 4 | Nine cases achieved a response within the first week ( five prednisone , four PEN ) , eight cases by the second week ( six prednisone , two PEN ) , five by the third week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) , and five by the fourth week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) . |
| 5 | Other indicators suggest , at best , a weak rebound in the second quarter ; but consumer confidence plunged in May to below its level a year ago . |
| 6 | They will give us exactly the colour we want , especially if we dovetail them with the bassoons and thus make use of the deep low notes of the second horn . |
| 7 | With him came a young staff officer destined to become one of Germany 's greatest commanders in the Second World War ; Erich von Manstein . |
| 8 | Eleven minutes of the second half gone , Shrewsbury Town three , Blackburn Rovers one , Kevin , Steve with a penalty and Tommy the young Irishman doing so well tonight here to get those goals for Shrewsbury , we 're going off to Neil . |
| 9 | Humming softly , Caroline made her way up the broad stairway to the second floor of the palazzo . |
| 10 | But the England B international dragged a glorious chance wide with his right foot in the second minute , and repeated the sin in injury time with his left . |
| 11 | Prior Robert , still stonily silent and shocked out of his normal studied dignity , led away his shattered clerk to the second of the two penitentiary cells ; and it was the first time , as far as Cadfael could recall , that the two had ever been occupied at the same time . |
| 12 | It will then go to the European Parliament for the second reading . |
| 13 | In the context of a smoother short-term response to the second oil shock and a higher long-term economic growth path than in the West , there was an acceleration of interest in the notion of Japan 's uniqueness not in the vein of inferiority or economic fragility , but in the context of superiority and independence . |
| 14 | The first-year course gives a broad introduction which is taken to a more advanced level in the second year . |
| 15 | Pontypool3 Llanelli27 AN ERROR by Arwel Parry eight minutes into the second half which allowed Wayne Proctor , the Llanelli left wing , to score the first try , changed the course of the game . |
| 16 | A scrappy and try-less first half left the scores level at 3-3 , but Llanelli took the lead eight minutes into the second half after Arwel Parry , the Pontypool full-back , made a complete hash of a restart from the 22 . |
| 17 | Is it right that liability for the second most heinous crime in English law , which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , should be satisfied by this relatively low grade of fault ? |
| 18 | Details of the artificial harbours were finally complete and one of the great technical triumphs of the Second World War began to take shape . |
| 19 | ‘ It is plainly in the interests of the more efficient administration of justice that there should be split trials in appropriate cases , as even where the decision on the first part of a split trial is such that there will have to be a second part , it may be desirable that the decision shall be appealed before incurring the possibly unnecessary expense of the second part . |
| 20 | It says that in the fourth quarter of 1991 , there was a threefold increase in the number of stolen cars in the second hand market compared with a year earlier . |
| 21 | ‘ It should be borne in mind that seasonal variations in stock market activity ususally result in lower turnover in the second half . |
| 22 | They had no direct experience of the Second Republic or the Civil War and so were less fearful of the consequences of change . |
| 23 | Villa were made to pay 12 minutes into the second half . |
| 24 | They correctly point out ‘ that the half-life of sumatriptan is 2 hours ’ and ‘ the intervals between drug administration and cerebral infarction of 1 week in the first case and 12 hours in the second , exonerate sumatriptan ’ , but they then go on to state ‘ no other risk factor for vascular disease was identified in our patients ’ . |
| 25 | Troops have been used more than 30 times since the second world war to replace striking workers . |
| 26 | Troops have been used more than 30 times since the second world war to replace striking workers . |
| 27 | Some forms of the second genus were apparently more difficult for the trade union movement to identify , one of these being that created in 1872 by William Paterson Lind , Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London , as the London Seamen 's Mutual Protection Society , later known as the Amalgamate British Seamen 's Protection Society . |
| 28 | They lost their scrum-half , Adam Brosnan , after three minutes of the first match and their captain , Jonathan Ions , with a broken jaw in the second match plus four more serious injuries and a host of minor injuries . |
| 29 | The 151 men on the platform were called to muster stations on Monday night for almost 30 minutes after the second leak . |
| 30 | Although Mr Kinnock has modernised Labour and ditched many of its vote-losing socialist policies , he has failed to convince the country to put its trust in him despite the country suffering the longest recession since the Second World War . |