Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martyn Grimley , another Great Britain player , will be appearing for Brooklands in the Second Division . |
| 2 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 3 | Elected for Northamptonshire to the second Protectorate Parliament ( 1656–8 ) , he was prominent in the debates over the alleged ‘ horrid blasphemy ’ at Bristol of the Quaker James Nayler [ q.v. ] , revealing thereby the limitations of his own toleration . |
| 4 | The products , internally tested the last six months and now going into formal beta , will be available direct and through VARs in the second quarter . |
| 5 | A well-loved picture dominates the bar , held in almost religious awe : a photograph of the SS Politician , the vessel which ran aground off Eriskay during the Second World War , cargoed with 20,000 cases of whisky ; not all of which went to the bottom when the boat eventually sank . |
| 6 | Alison , a PE student at Brighton University , emerged from the same mini-rugby structure at Bridgehaugh as Kenny Logan — who was capped at full-back for Scotland in the second Test against Australia last summer — and last season 's Scotland Under-21 No 8 , Gareth Flockhart , who has recently been honing his skills , both sporting and agricultural , in New Zealand . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the courtyard is a wooden statue of Hercules from the second quarter of the 18C , attributed to L. Widmann . |
| 9 | These are aids of a social character , those given to relieve the effects of natural disasters and those designed to compensate for economic disadvantages caused by the division of Germany after the Second World War . |
| 10 | The unification of Italy and of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century was a belated achievement by the bourgeoisie in those countries of a large , efficiently organized modern state , essential for the rapid development of capitalist production , such as already existed in most of Western Europe and in the US . |
| 11 | On land the Company was not really strong enough for such antics , but its naval superiority gave it a place in the third or fourth rank of powers in India , beneath the Emperor at the top and great rulers like the Nawab of Bengal in the second rank . |
| 12 | Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands , who visited Japan on Oct. 20-26 , received a formal apology on Oct. 23 from Kaifu for the " unbearable suffering " inflicted by Japanese soldiers on Dutch internees during the occupation of Indonesia in the Second World War . |
| 13 | He sat for his home town of Stafford in the second Protectorate Parliament of 1656–8 , but is recorded as a more active speaker in the 1659 Parliament of Richard Cromwell [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 16 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 17 | BRITAIN agreed yesterday to hand over £47 million in gold to Latvia to compensate the Baltic state for lost assets deposited with the Bank of England before the Second World War . |
| 18 | It was doubtful whether Schluter could remain in control but two emotional anniversaries during the campaign helped to keep defence as the issue : April 9 was the anniversary of the German invasion and occupation of Denmark in the Second World War , and May 9 the anniversary of the Liberation . |
| 19 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 20 | DURHAM WASPS ' dream of becoming the first British League team to win a European game abroad ended in a 10-1 defeat here last night after Robert Herckerrath had opened the scoring for Gunco Pandas of Rotterdam in the second minute . |
| 21 | On 19 February 1993 , Mark Fisher MP opened the debate in the House of Commons on the second reading of his private member 's ‘ Right to Know Bill ’ commenting thus : |
| 22 | The wind was now veering round towards the stern quarter and increasing so that 4th-placed Herst/Stafford of Canada in the second semi capsized 20m from the line and lost their final place . |
| 23 | THE PURCHASE OF half a mile of track by Avon Valley Railway members signals the start of the railway 's long awaited southern extension and the hope that passengers will be able to steam towards Bath during the second half of 1993 . |
| 24 | In the period between the two maps , the former distortion has just faded out whereas the latter has amplified and migrated to become the significant cyclonic region at the south of Greenland in the second map . |
| 25 | It also creates serious difficulties for the theological understanding of Christ as the second Adam . |
| 26 | The Russian Revolution , and the revolutions in Central Europe at the end of the First World War , took place after military defeats ; and while in China the revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party was finally victorious in a civil war fought after the defeat of Japan in the Second World War , that victory was nevertheless largely due to the earlier defeat and retreat of the Chinese Nationalist armies in the war with Japan , and to the success of the Communist Party in organizing guerrilla warfare in the Japanese-occupied areas . |
| 27 | The US secretary of state , George Marshall , displayed such imagination for the stricken continent of Europe after the second world war . |
| 28 | Some groups of the dissatisfied were influenced by the Manichaean teachings which came from the east of Europe after the Second Crusade ( 1147 ) and were transmitted along the trade routes to the towns of north Germany and Lombardy . |
| 29 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 30 | The mental hospital where my great-uncle Fred spent the last 30 years of his life was one of a chain built around the fringes of London in the second half of the nineteenth century . |