Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was booked early in the second half for a clattering foul on Abel . |
| 2 | Pat Archer , of the county council 's transportation department , said the problem had dropped slightly in the second half of last term . |
| 3 | A family which was torn apart during the Second World War has had an emotional reunion . |
| 4 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 5 | In any case , it 's tucked away in the second half of the book , after Offred 's prison-like existence has been thoroughly , horribly established . |
| 6 | The New Town , the central part of which was built mainly in the second half of the eighteenth century , is more spaciously laid out in classical streets and squares — ‘ not only gay and airy ’ , said Robert Louis Stevenson , ‘ but highly picturesque ’ . |
| 7 | It has however been the subject of much criticism , which has grown substantially during the second half of the present century . |
| 8 | At home , high street sales have risen modestly for the second month running . |
| 9 | Chiddingfold pushed hard in the second period of extra time , and Peter Liles saved 'Mill with a super save off his elbow , flicking a goalbound shot just over the bar . |
| 10 | The sections were evaluated blindly by the second author twice with two months interval . |
| 11 | Prednisone was used less during the second year ; twenty six patients received one course and 10 children two or more courses . |
| 12 | The fort underwent several alterations before it seems to have been systematically demolished early in the second century . |
| 13 | It was used extensively during the Second World War , and is still used in parts of the Third World to help eradicate malaria and typhus . |
| 14 | There was also the sensitive question of returning land to ethnic Germans and Hungarians , whose land had been expropriated immediately after the Second World War as punishment for their alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupiers . |
| 15 | Millmead battled away and did the best they could , but their cause was blighted further during the second half when they were reduced to eight men due to injury . |
| 16 | He was replaced early in the second half by Shutt . |
| 17 | Dundee worked hard for and equaliser and were eventually rewarded mid-way through the second half when Paul Barnett ( Dundee Kingsway Circus ) found the back of the net . |
| 18 | MAKESHIFT court proceedings in the home of a dying lung-cancer victim , Alfred McTear , had to be abandoned halfway through the second day yesterday on doctor 's advice . |
| 19 | Newell has also arrived impressively from the Second and took his goal with poise . |
| 20 | The message of the first oil shock was driven home by the second , when the Iranian revolution caused a further doubling of world crude prices . |
| 21 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |
| 22 | But that was abandoned midway through the second half . |
| 23 | A trumpet solo followed midway through the second half but St Johnstone failed to rally as they lost two more goals without reply . |
| 24 | the number and proportion of women in paid employment in the United Kingdom has increased substantially since the Second World War , and |
| 25 | This restriction does not lose us any power , however , because every occam program can be identified with the set of its finite syntactic approximations ( a term which is defined precisely in the second section ) . |
| 26 | It could be argued that had England scored faster on the second day they would have won comfortably , but having controlled the game from the beginning they were desperately unlucky to lose out to the weather ; and for the fans listening at home it was especially frustrating that it was a beautiful evening in England . |
| 27 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | The stone disimpacted in eight of these patients after seven to 10 days decompression and was removed successfully at the second stage , whereas five of six patients with persistent stone impaction required more than one session for stone clearance . |
| 29 | Although Eisenhower and Churchill had worked together in the Second World War as military commander and prime minister , Churchill had now to remember that Eisenhower was president of the world 's greatest power . |
| 30 | Certain ‘ representatives of the Afghan people ’ would be admitted only at the second stage of the conference and they would need to accept the decisions of the conference . |