Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been moved alongside the combative Hughes in the second half , to try and expose a lack of pace at the heart of Southampton 's aggressive and rough defence . |
| 2 | For example , how to land allied armies and vast quantities of supplies on the beaches of enemy-occupied Normandy during the Second World War ? |
| 3 | Observers believed that the ruling opened the way for the first prosecution under the UK War Crimes Act approved in May 1991 [ see p. 38219 ] , and that 30 members of a former Lithuanian police battalion living in the UK could soon be charged with the killing of thousands of civilians and Jews in eastern Europe during the Second World War . |
| 4 | The jealousies and animosities which characterised the countries of Eastern Europe before the Second World War never developed into a coherent aspiration towards supranationalism on the West European pattern . |
| 5 | And although they emphasised purity and traditional observance in religion , their position in other spheres might justifiably be compared to that of , say , the Vichy regime in occupied France during the Second World War . |
| 6 | As with the resistance movements of occupied Europe during the Second World War , many hajduks outwardly collaborated with the occupying administration , whilst clandestinely supporting the resistance . |
| 7 | The first birds , usually males , arrive in southern Britain in the second half of April , arriving a little later further north . |
| 8 | In Southern Rhodesia after the Second World War , Whites abandoned the trains for the motor car , while black rail passengers increased in numbers . |
| 9 | He 's certainly not slow to probe beneath the outwardly cosy surface of Edwardian London in the Second Symphony . |
| 10 | Although we have located the beginnings of sociology in Western Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century , its development and acceptance as an academic discipline was not a uniform and uncomplicated process . |
| 11 | The nearest precedent is the extraordinarily generous Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Western Europe after the second world war . |
| 12 | Mr Lozoraitis had raised eyebrows in Moscow by a suggestion that Lithuania might one day regain Kaliningrad , a region ceded to Russia by defeated Germany after the Second World War . |