Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [prep] the second " in BNC.

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1 That led to the Royal arms we know today — England or Scotland in the first and fourth quarters , Ireland in the third quarter and Scotland or England in the second .
2 However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals .
3 However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals .
4 Two separate advertisements will run during the campaign which lasts for eight months , the first between May & August with the second between September and December .
5 In Victorian Britain or France during the Second Empire the critic had some influence over taste .
6 This one is pitched in Rosamund Pilcher territory , a many-layered family saga set in London , Kent and Germany during the Second World War .
7 cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off
8 Both sides had injury problems during the series , West Indies missing Logie and Ambrose from the first Test , Richards and Marshall from the second , Best , Marshall and Moseley from the fourth .
9 England have been shown up for the lack of quality in their line-up , although Gooch 's illness here , Michael Atherton 's illness in Calcutta and the stupidity of leaving out Phil Tufnell from the first Test and Atherton on the second Test all contributed to an unexpectedly one-sided contest .
10 But according to the earliest Church historians , the James and Jude of the second century were the grandsons of another , older Jude , who was Jesus 's brother .
11 The secco recitative section for the Spirits of Mercy , Justice and Christ from the second aria of the work .
12 The modern practice of numbering the days of the month consecutively from the first to the last came to the West from Syria and Egypt in the second half of the sixth century .
13 They had accepted an itinerary which offered the fierce opposition of Canterbury and Auckland as the second and fourth games , followed by the two tests .
14 ANNADALE Striders increased their lead in the Panasonic Area athletics league when they finished 27 points clear of Ballymena and Antrim in the second round at Antrim yesterday .
15 It will be the first international tribunal of its kind since the main allied powers set up courts at Nuremberg and Tokyo after the Second World War to try leading Axis war criminals .
16 Another of these stray Carthaginians who wandered between Greece and Rome in the second century B.C. is probably to be recognized in Procles , son of Eucrates , a Carthaginian , whom Pausanias quotes twice .
17 There were Jewish communities of some size in Sicyon , Sparta , Delos , Gos and Rhodes in the second part of the second century B.C. In 139 B.C. Jews were thrown out of Rome for obnoxious religious propaganda ( Valerius Maximus 1.3.3 ) .
18 The referee however waved play on as McConnell at the second attempt saved Byrne 's poorly hit shot .
19 There is an ancient variant in the Lucan version of the Lord 's Prayer , which is attested as early as Marcion in the second century and reads , ‘ May thy Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us , ’ instead of , ‘ Thy kingdom come . ’
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