Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stolypin 's reforms found little sympathy in the Second Duma , which met in February 1907 . |
| 2 | Is it right that liability for the second most heinous crime in English law , which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , should be satisfied by this relatively low grade of fault ? |
| 3 | Some forms of the second genus were apparently more difficult for the trade union movement to identify , one of these being that created in 1872 by William Paterson Lind , Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London , as the London Seamen 's Mutual Protection Society , later known as the Amalgamate British Seamen 's Protection Society . |
| 4 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 5 | Doors normally open half an hour before a concert or performance of a play but , when there are two evening performances , spectators may be admitted only a few minutes before the second performance . |
| 6 | The patrons of the first and second kinds offered hospitality , reward and ( in some cases of the second kind ) direct monetary exchange , but for work then specifically performed for and ( where relevant ) owned by them . |
| 7 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 8 | But that , it does n't say after the SAT , the written comment can be made er , where we send er D and I reports home at the moment , i.e. er , just after half term in the second term . |
| 9 | Bits and pieces are still filtering out from IBM Corp 's conference call with analysts after its third quarter figures last week , and its director of investor relations Jim Clippard finally acknowledged that IBM could cut its workforce even more than the 25,000 announced in December , late in second quarter or in the third quarter : ‘ It 's clear to me that they have to go well beyond the 25,000 , ’ said PaineWebber analyst Stephen Smith , ‘ Maybe even 50,000 ; ’ analysts told Reuter that IBM said the majority of its targeted 25,000 plus staffers will leave the company during the second quarter , leaving it open to another plan in the second half of 1993 . |
| 10 | There 's this girl in the second year this black girl and she 's got and her name 's cousin got quite a lot of |
| 11 | The Romans made only tentative essays into building such designs but in the eastern Mediterranean and even further east — in Persia , Iran , Armenia , Syria — Christianity had taken root earlier than in Rome and churches were built of this type from the second century A.D. onwards . |
| 12 | Some Statements of the Second Law of Thermodynaamics 1 . |
| 13 | This period of the second industrial revolution is marked especially as a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization . |
| 14 | At some point in the second half of next year , and perhaps even earlier if President Mitterrand decides to bring forward the abolition of French controls , the Government is going to be faced with an inescapable decision . |
| 15 | and then scrum-half Bruce Fenley rounded off another charge with the second try … 14-6 at half-time … |
| 16 | It 'll be int=sting to see whether or not they 're gon na make some changes in the second half . |
| 17 | There were seven riders in the scratch group which started two minutes behind the 60-strong first group and they had eliminated this handicap by the second of five laps . |
| 18 | Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years . |
| 19 | ( More precisely this fact was , at least in a general way , appreciated by some people in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | The president of Prodigy Services Co says the viewdata system is considering a move away from its flat-fee monthly pricing and may start charging by usage for some features , including its bulletin boards : according to Communications Daily , Ross Glatzer said the company 's management is concerned about ‘ rapidly rising telecommunications costs , driven by soaring growth in members ’ use of a handful of features that are most expensive for Prodigy to provide — stock quotes and company news , bulletin boards and airline schedules ; ’ Glatzer said details still are being worked out , but ‘ it 's become clear we must introduce some timed charges for some features in the second half of this year , ’ adding that the problem is one of trying to use flat-rate pricing for some features for which others charge $6 to $18 an hour . |
| 21 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 22 | He is in some trouble with the second . |
| 23 | Guidelines for provisioning ( hitherto unknown in the industry ) were tightened up again this autumn for the second year in succession . |
| 24 | This suggests that what Mill may have meant in saying that one pleasure is of higher quality than another is that it may be pleasanter without there being a quantifiable relation between them , in terms of which there must be some amount of the second which is as worth while , in hedonic terms , as the first . |
| 25 | With the strong wind at their backs , Monmouthshire were able to apply some pressure in the second half , but their cause was n't helped by Jonathan Westwood , who landed only three penalties from six attempts . |
| 26 | He is stuck with this answer to the second question because he holds ( as does Hare , but not Ayer ) that what one is saying about something when one calls it x is identical with one 's reason for calling it x . |
| 27 | Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year . |
| 28 | While there was some improvement in the second half of the year , losses in France were substantially higher at $23.8m ( 1991 : $10.9m loss ) following a sharp market-wide increase in motor and large property claims , substantial costs in developing a direct marketing operation and some reserve strengthening . |
| 29 | And it was clear , some way into the second bottle of Frascati , what was going to happen next . |
| 30 | Let us pray for all who ha who served on this airfield during the Second World War and the relatives of those who died . |