Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 2 | Coatings company International Lory has for the second time completed a year without a single lost day accident . |
| 3 | In the army , a total of 1,308 officers and 5,152 nco 's received their redundancy notices under the second phase of the Options for Change plan to cut army numbers by almost 40,000 to 119,000 by 1995 . |
| 4 | The Spennymoor super heavyweight forced the referee to step in after Hopper had pounded the more fancied Craig Parsons of Brighton into three standing counts in the second round . |
| 5 | The conflict develops in the second part where it reaches a climax : in Giselle a death , in Romeo and Juliet several deaths . |
| 6 | Flowering usually starts in the second year , with one flower head — the edible part — at the end of each shoot . |
| 7 | Language exercises in the second part are based on the film and commentary , with particular attention to the formation and use of tenses . |
| 8 | Therefore if calves grazed from early spring are given an anthelmintic treatment in early July and moved immediately to a second pasture such as silage or hay aftermath , the level of infection which develops on the second pasture will be low . |
| 9 | The dream itself has no meaning ; the effect it has on the second person tells a great deal about that person . |
| 10 | The next phase , the anal phase , usually occurs during the second year of the child 's life . |
| 11 | I find them all delightful in the first and second year , something happens between the second year and the fourth year , and in the fourth year they seem to have lost interest in academic things . |
| 12 | His loyal and seemingly very level-headed wife Nesta says of the second sex scandal he has been involved in during their marriage : |
| 13 | When all the items have been used , the story passes to the second person who takes a turn continuing the story using her items . |
| 14 | In the absence of a clock pulse to CK2 , nothing yet happens at the second flip-flop and X2 remains off . |
| 15 | Transmission across the callosum takes time and necessitates crossing at least one synaptic junction , during which the information is said to undergo some degree of transformation such that it arrives at the second hemisphere in a comparatively degraded state ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ; Gross , 1972 ; Gibson , Dimond and Gazzaniga , 1972 ) . |
| 16 | This statement in turn leads onto the second question : Why ? |
| 17 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 18 | Is there expectations that there will be any more redundancy costs in the second half ? |
| 19 | This leads to the second problem , which is concerned with the exact demarcation of the North-South boundary . |
| 20 | This leads to the second issue of open outcry . |
| 21 | This leads to the second stage of the argument , to the effect that disobeying the law undermines its authority , and is therefore contrary to the obligation to support just institutions . |
| 22 | The first paragraph , for example , comes from p. 10 and the second from p. 13 ; and all the connections Leech and Short make between these pages have been lost , with the result that it is not clear how the first paragraph leads to the second paragraph . |
| 23 | And it usually leads to the second thing which is to give some testimony . |
| 24 | This leads to the second disadvantage , cost , due in particular to the high price of fuel . |
| 25 | This leads to the second point . |
| 26 | Neil Cowie goes into the second row , Billy McGinty to loose forward and skipper Dean Bell returns to centre . |
| 27 | For example , although it is easy enough to decide which vowel one hears in ‘ beat ’ or ‘ bit ’ , it is much less easy to decide which vowel one hears in the second syllable of words such as , for example , ‘ easy ’ or ‘ busy ’ . |
| 28 | The third seed wasted two match points in the second set tie break before capitulating 4–6 7–6 6–3 to the big-serving Australian . |
| 29 | As for who plays in the second half , that could depend on this afternoon . |
| 30 | I would hazard the guess that The Graduate belongs in the second category . ’ |