Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scored 102 not out , his third ton of the tour , as India decided to use the fourth and final day of the match as preparation for the second Test , which gets under way in Johannesburg on Thursday . |
| 2 | Both Major and Hurd were then immediately nominated as candidates for the second round , while Heseltine was also renominated . |
| 3 | Architects for the conversion were Cecil Denny Highton and Partners and the work was carried out in two phases , the contractors for the first being Newman and Kerry of Aldershot , and J. Edwards and Sons of Waterlooville for the second . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Brundle was out of luck for the second race running . |
| 6 | There seemed , though , a general lack of enthusiasm for the second Mrs Machin . |
| 7 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 8 | In December 1989 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , following the visit of an IMF delegation , decided to delay disbursement of funds for the second phase of the structural adjustment programme agreed with Equatorial Guinea in December 1988 [ see p. 36923 ] . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Benazir Bhutto has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time after a decisive victory in the country 's parliament over her greatest rival , the Muslim League leader , Nawa Shariff . |
| 11 | Resolved that this meeting concurs in Apinion [ sic ] with the said Committee — that it will be necessary to carry on the Business of this Institution as perfectly as possible , that there should be two Professors appointed & that as soon as the proposed plan for the College is executed , which , from the Encouragement already given , 't is hoped will be speedily accomplished — The members will avail themselves of the Offer made by the Committee and refer the Merits of Candidates for the second professorship to their investigation . |
| 12 | of GDP for the second half of 1991 — that is a high level . |
| 13 | When they left home yesterday , they were full of confidence for the second leg of their play off campaign . |
| 14 | A MANCHESTER United starlet of the 1980s is plotting the downfall of Prescot for the second time in seven days . |
| 15 | On July 8 the Russian President Boris Yeltsin had announced at a press conference in Munich after talks with leaders of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38990 ] that Russia had made a political decision to withdraw an estimated 130,000 troops from the Baltic states , and that an agreement " on a schedule for the withdrawal of troops for the second half of this year and for 1993 " would be signed " soon " . |
| 16 | The proposed Education Department budget of $26,600 million represented an increase of only $500 million ( 2 per cent , i.e. below inflation for the second successive year , despite Bush 's claim to be the " education President " ) . |
| 17 | Making sense of God for a second time |
| 18 | You 'll need to buy £20 worth of materials for the second project . |
| 19 | This is what was left of his council house after it was struck by a bolt of lightning for the SECOND time in 2 weeks . |
| 20 | It was a ‘ secret garden ’ at least to David Eccles who when Secretary of State for the second time , in 1962 , was determined ( against the better judgement of many of its guardians ) to strip it of its secrecy . |
| 21 | Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , EC Commission President Jacques Delors and Ruud Lubbers , the Netherlands Prime Minister who held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1991 , held their first formal EC-Japanese summit in The Hague on July 18 immediately after the London G-7 summit [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 22 | Late on Sept. 20 UK Prime Minister John Major ( whose country held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 ) announced that he would call an emergency summit to discuss ratification of the Treaty and to " deal with the particular problems in the foreign exchange markets in recent days , that have revealed shortcomings in the exchange rate mechanism system " . |
| 23 | John Major , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 , declared that Edinburgh would " be remembered as the summit that put the Community back together " . |
| 24 | Satellite photographs of both Sudan and Ethiopia confirmed that November 's harvest prospects were minimal following the failure of rains for the second year running . |
| 25 | Swindon who are fighting against relegation for the second year running were six points down at one stage … they fought back … |
| 26 | ‘ He 'll mention the Echo as often as he possibly can , ’ Graham said dryly , and defiantly filled his glass with whisky for the second time . |
| 27 | When Operation Gentle Shepherd swung into action for the second time , five of the six sperm whales were coaxed by 14 rescue vessels between the islands of Swona and South Ronaldsay and were heading for the Pentland Firth when they dived beneath the waves . |
| 28 | However , a new query language interface based on SQL is under development for the second generation of UGIX ( Raper and Bundock 1991 ) . |
| 29 | An OpenView storage management system is still under development for the second half of the year . |
| 30 | Early in 1922 the tramway fell into disuse for the second and final time . |