Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bodie had talked to the caretaker of the first , and Doyle tackled the surly old man who resided in the basement apartment of the second . |
| 2 | It will be seen that the plaintiff obtained part payment on the second note , the difference between £52.18s.8d. and £100 , i.e. £47.1s.4d , before it was due . |
| 3 | The series moves from sentence/paragraph level in the first book , through whole text level in the second ; the third book presents real ( but slightly modified ) academic texts ; and finally , in the fourth book , genuine unsimplified texts are used . |
| 4 | The third edition , to be published in 1991 contains much that is new or refined from the second , but it is written wholly within the plate tectonic theoretical framework , and reveals no paradigm change from the second edition . |
| 5 | Oldham was the scene of a great building boom in the second half of the nineteenth century , and many ordinary working folk bought shares in the great cotton industry that gave rise to it . |
| 6 | With the wind advantage in the second half , St Aloysius took command and on only two occasions did Galashiels set up a sustained attack . |
| 7 | Both rely on something lost being found , a sheep in the first parable and a silver coin in the second . |
| 8 | The German state prosecutor 's office announced on April 8 that tests conducted on the bones of a man who died in Brazil in 1979 confirmed that the body ( discovered in 1985 — see p. 33759 ) was that of Josef Mengele , the so-called " Angel of Death " held responsible for the deaths of 400,000 prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War . |
| 9 | Robert was a replacement in the Currie Cup final and came on for young Johan Roux in the second half . |
| 10 | PROMOTION for Middlesbrough Football Club from the Second Division to the new Premier League could prove costly . |
| 11 | Hence Britain has suffered increasingly from an international demonstration effect since the Second World War . |
| 12 | Two outstanding characteristics of labour law during the second half of that century were the intermittent recognition by politicians in government and Parliament that control of trade unionism by the imposition of penalties was of doubtful efficacy ; and the recurrent attempts by the courts to preserve the penal method . |
| 13 | His private sitting room on the second floor , a substantial , high-ceilinged chamber immediately shrank to the proportions of a toy theatre when he entered it . |
| 14 | ‘ We have a First Aid Room on the second floor , if the gentleman is n't feeling well . ’ |
| 15 | Forsman gained his revenge winning the Buick Classic at the second extra play-off hole , ahead of both Steve Elkington and Brad Faxon . |
| 16 | The unlocking of the receptor leads to the creation or suppression of a nerve impulse in the second cell . |
| 17 | We drove two hundred yards and then the driver switched a dashboard control marked ‘ garage doors ’ which sent a radio recognition signal to the second compound . |
| 18 | Joseland moves from blind side flanker to the second row and with skipper Jones not available Fison takes the inside centre berth |
| 19 | While this is true , there are ways of minimising the problem , and eliminating it by altering the balance of the combustion in the diesel for the first , and by putting a particulate trap into the exhaust pipe for the second . |
| 20 | Software Publishing Corp warns that a turnover shortfall in the second quarter will yield share earnings between $0.15 and $0.17 , compared with $0.32 , on turnover of $43.4m in the year-ago period : second quarter revenues are expected to come in between $31m and $33m , and it blames continued price competition and soft international demand . |
| 21 | Apple Computer Inc should post earnings and revenue growth in the second half of the year due to strong demand , chief financial officer Joseph Graziano told the conference . |
| 22 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 23 | So the new wave of mothers exemplify the separation between maternity and domesticity already entrenched in working-class culture since married women reentered the labour market after the Second World War . |
| 24 | The number of books issued in the Main Reading Room , 203,442 , shows a decrease of nearly 6% , but this is almost certainly due to the disruption in book supply caused by the progressive programme of floor closures required by fire alarm renewal installation work throughout the second half of the year . |
| 25 | Sociology had a major presence , though of variable quality and intellectual traditions , throughout the university sector before the Second World War . |
| 26 | Ulster Unionist talks negotiator Chris McGimpsey won his City Council debut on the second count today in Court area . |
| 27 | All courses offer the possibility for a number of students to undertake a year 's supervised work experience between the second and final year of the undergraduate programmes . |
| 28 | Wellesbourne Knitting Club meets in the Village Hall on the second Tuesday or every month and welcomes new members . |
| 29 | Defeat of the Axis troops in Tunisia marked in Churchill 's words ‘ the end of the beginning ’ but for the enemy the beginning of the end and was indeed the turning point of the Second World War . |
| 30 | The two clearly do not correspond ; the Raman band is assigned to the fundamental , and the IR band to the second overtone of ν 2 . |