Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lawn to the south of the house , shown on a plan by Bourginion , the French surveyor employed to redesign the garden , corresponds almost exactly with the description given in the second edition ( 1733 ) of the Dictionary , where Miller insists on frequent mowing and rolling to keep the grass in good order . |
| 2 | : It can be seen from the first of the above tables that the mean coverage given by the second level ( 8% ) is just over half that of the first level ( 14% ) . |
| 3 | Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell . |
| 4 | CD 's second novel , written for serialization in Richard Bentley 's monthly magazine , Bentley 's Miscellany , of which CD was the first editor , the first instalment appearing in the second issue of Feb. 1837 . |
| 5 | Currently MainWin can handle only Windows 3.0 programs with 3.1 support expected in the second half . |
| 6 | It might be argued that the test procedure is thus shown to be at fault , since in all the above cases the first element can be shown to have a clear semantic function relative to the second element : in fact , it signals a sub-variety of the general category denoted by the second element . |
| 7 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 8 | Speaking at the company 's developers conference , Apple Computer Inc chairman John Sculley said he expects the company 's strong momentum to continue into the second half of the fiscal year , adding that among new products on the stocks are the speech recognition computer system code-named Caspar and the pen-based portable notebook . |
| 9 | That day , April 29 , twenty Spitfires were safely delivered to Renfrew with one each on April 30 and May 1 for a total of 52 aircraft which constituted 100% of the complement assigned for the second delivery to Malta . |
| 10 | Some manufacturers recommend a light sanding between the second and third coats and it is important , as with all types of products mentioned , that the instructions are read carefully before use . |
| 11 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 12 | His second example involved a transhipment bill of lading issued by the first carrier and damage or loss occurring on the second carrier 's vessel . |
| 13 | As part of its programme of research connected with the Second Work-Place Industrial Relations Survey , the ESRC has sponsored the study of up to twelve studies of company industrial relations policies and strategies . |
| 14 | Over 1,000,000 days ' work were lost due to strikes in the first quarter of 1991 , a figure exceeded in the second quarter under the combined impact of continuing miners ' strikes and protest strikes against price increases . |
| 15 | Waqar Younis celebrates the key wicket of the England captain as the home side slumps in the second innings . |
| 16 | There 's even a 100MHz dual-processor penned for the second quarter of next year using Cypress ' promised three-layer , 0.5 CMOS technology , touted at up to 320 MIPS , 162 SPECmarks , 142 SPECfp and 77 MFLOPS . |
| 17 | The robber at Bath Road had grabbed £45,000 after shooting the two guards and made his initial getaway on a moped , found , say the prosecution , at the point at which he 'd switched to a getaway car driven by the second man . |
| 18 | Wright slowed the pace down with telling effect to romp through the second game , but Wallace came back strongly to take the third . |
| 19 | But there was nearly always a small group of so-called " mature students ' , who had failed to get to college when they left school ( due to illness , perhaps , or economic circumstances or the disruption caused by the Second World War of 1939–45 ) . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , those premises were destroyed by enemy bombing in the second world war , and the site is now part of the Shelter-homes development . |
| 21 | Also playing are Witney Talent to bulldock in the second division of the Beezer Homes League while Abingdon town makes the short track to Maidenhead United in the Vauxhal League division to Falf . |
| 22 | You can then press the TAB key to move to the second page and enter the identifiers of the additional DCs to be activated via this package . |
| 23 | If the searched-for item is less than the mid-point ( for words this means the searched-for item comes earlier in the alphabet than the item at the mid-point ) , then the search continues in the first half of the structure , if it is greater , the search continues in the second half of the structure . |
| 24 | In a study conducted during the Second World War ( Stouffer et al. |
| 25 | Both rounds were marked by a very low turnout , with only 20.87 per cent of the electorate participating in the second round . |
| 26 | The glissando begins on the second beat , reaches its upward limit on the third , returns to its starting-point on the fourth , and ends on the first beat of the next bar . |
| 27 | Mix a teaspoon of sugar into the first glass , a teaspoon of tea leaves into the second glass and a teaspoon of washing powder into the third . |
| 28 | When the effect of one cell on another is directly by way of a modification of the synapse that the first cell makes on the second , this is known as a homosynaptic effect ; when the effect of the first cell on the second is modulated by the behaviour of a third cell synapsing on either of the other two , this is called a heterosynaptic effect . |
| 29 | Subsequent benefactions by George and Harry Wills enabled the principal buildings to be constructed and a cousin , the first Lord Dulverton , generously contributed to their repair from damage suffered in the Second World War . |
| 30 | The chance for a local winner came in the second race , the Arkle Challenge Trophy . |