Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] for [art] second " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The Wellenkuppe summit , a white notch against a blue sky , was only five minutes away up an easy snow slope , but almost everyone stopped at the top of the rock pitch for a second breakfast .
3 Wilson had made National Self-Determination the central plank of his 1916 election campaign for a second term in office .
4 The proposal to close Seacombe Ferry comes a week after the revitalised service won a top tourist award for the second successive year .
5 Following a quiet start on the third day , the pair produced the most assured batting of the match to date as they posted a New Zealand record stand for the second wicket .
6 Italy landed the team title for the second year in succession with France second , Austria third and Ireland fourth .
7 ‘ I have since taken maternity leave for a second time and now also work to some extent from home .
8 Hot shot : Rangers striker Ally McCoist has won the Adidas Golden Boot award for the second consecutive season .
9 Hence the transformation law for a second rank tensor .
10 Richard Fish , 24 , told from his hospital bed last night how he fractured his spine in three places when his bid to equal the world canoe free-fall record for a second time went ‘ horribly wrong . ’
11 And Swindon head north for the second leg on Wednesday week .
12 Warned Dorigo : ‘ We have n't lost faith in our ability and if we can beat Blackburn and Norwich , it will give us the best possible launching pad for the second half of the season . ’
13 Since this is mass market time and peripheral connections are very important , SunSoft 's wish list for the second half is stuffed full .
14 Since this is mass market time and peripheral connections are very important , SunSoft 's wish list for the second half is stuffed full .
15 The following day the dress rehearsal went so smoothly that after giving out his notes — the pause at the end of the third act , before Olwyn opened the cigarette box for the second time , was a whisker too long , and her response to Robert 's line to the effect that she 'd fabricated the person she loved a touch too quick — ; Meredith declared enough was enough .
16 A 1000lb bomb explodes outside the Grand Opera House for the second time .
17 STAFF at Bury St Edmunds Branch had something to celebrate — and something to celebrate with — after wining Private Trust and Taxation 's South of England promotion contest for the second quarter of the current financial year .
18 Underwood got the first try , following a searing diagonal run by Heslop , and then returned the compliment by giving Heslop the scoring pass for the second .
19 The reserves were denied the honours in the Central League by the same process of calculation , but the third team won the Yorkshire Midweek League for the second year running .
20 On March 27 the Russian Supreme Soviet rejected the government 's draft budget for the second quarter of 1992 and ordered it to present a new version in April .
21 The new timetable prolonged the transition period for a second time [ see p. 38563 for first extension ] despite the government 's insistence in January that the transition would end on March 26 as planned [ see p. 38709 ] .
22 MASSIMO BIASION , of Italy , driving a works Lancia , yesterday squeezed past his team-mate , Alessandro Fiorio , to win the San Remo Rally and lift the world title for the second year running .
23 JULIE BOND enjoyed an extraordinary run of serving success to guide Woolwich Brixton to the Royal Bank National League title for the second time in three years .
24 The voting procedure for the second ballot will be the same as for the first save that paragraph 14 shall not apply .
25 ‘ You 're satisfied I 'm not going to sabotage your chances of becoming world champion for the second time ? ’
26 As sponsor of the Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition for the second year , Guinness donated a sponsor 's evening to Marie Curie Cancer Care , whose efforts on the evening raised a total of over –25,000 towards its nursing and other services for cancer patients .
27 WREXHAM fell victim to a sucker punch for the second home match in succession , going down to goals at the end of each half at the Racecourse .
28 After all , I , along with almost every other British journalist in Mexico , had confidently predicted that England would reach the World Cup final for the second consecutive time and stubbornly resist Brazil 's attempt to take the trophy from them .
29 Victory by 92 runs meant that Clive Lloyd was holding aloft the Prudential World Cup for the second time .
30 The 1992 Coca-Cola International was awarded World Cup status for the second consecutive year , and organiser Desi McHenry was offered it again for this year if he could change the date , something he was unfortunately unable to do .
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