Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.

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1 The increased likelihood of referral occurred among both male and female patients in the two groups of practices , although female patients between the ages of 5–24 and 45–74 in fundholding practices were slightly less likely to be referred in the second phase of the study than in the first ( table IV ) .
2 The Council of Licensed Conveyancers and the Institute are likely to go for approval at an early date ; it is unlikely , however , that any approvals will be given before the second half of 1993 .
3 A further 60 seats would be filled by a second vote in which electors would express their preference for political parties rather than individual candidates , with the seats being distributed in accordance with the proportion of the vote achieved by each party .
4 He never supposed a bus might recur in his life , to be travelled in a second time , with a recognisable darn in its upholstery .
5 Although a statement of intent has been signed , confirmation is needed from the boards of both companies and the acquisition is expected to be completed by the second quarter of this year .
6 Ophiomyces frutectosus may be distinguished from the second N. Atlantic species , O. grandis , by the arrangement of the tentacle scales on the proximal pores ; O. grandis having up to 5 tentacle scales , two on the lateral arm plate and three on the ventral arm plate .
7 You may be recalled for a second interview or apply to the same place some time in the future .
8 Can you say why the intervention must be stopped for the second baseline ?
9 We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective .
10 On the other hand , arguments have raged since the early eighteenth century about the relative emphasis to be placed upon the Second and Third Pillars .
11 The facilitated interview may be appropriate in certain circumstances but should be treated as a second stage .
12 Er and I think we would all er acknowledge er the the precise difficulties of that wording and perhaps a , an amendment may need to be considered on the second line following the list of districts .
13 This software enabled the first of a number of useful commercial applications of AI to be constructed ; many of these can be considered as the second generation of expert systems .
14 If a photon is not caught by the first membrane , it may be caught by the second , and so on .
15 Additional handles can be added to the second frame simply by clicking on it with the mouse and these are then dragged to re-shape the boundary .
16 Support for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT is to be added by the second quarter of next year .
17 Support for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT will be added by the second quarter of next year .
18 Questionnaires received after 8 November are being added to the data file , and revised estimates of key variables will be included in the second interim report In June 1985 , along with information from the planned follow-up study .
19 A large deep bunker has to be carried with the second , and there are three more bunkers on the way to the green . ’
20 In January 1984 , the Chairman of the ESRC visited Belfast and announced that a further £480,000 was to be committed for a second phase of the programme .
21 Cray Research Inc reports that the Space Data and Computing Division of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has ordered a Cray C98 system : C98s start at around $12m and the new one will be installed in the second half of this year and will be used for Earth and space sciences research , the firm said .
22 Mr Clarke said last night that the pay of five million workers , ranging from teachers to nurses and civil servants , would be curbed for the second year in a row .
23 As security it was agreed that Mr. O'Brien would guarantee the payment by the company of its indebtedness and that his liability under the guarantee would be secured by a second charge over the house which was believed to have an equity of about £100,000 .
24 Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’
25 A fixed position allows the use of a tripod and , for the first time in this Christmas video shoot , the use of an extension microphone to enable you to make a good job of recording all those fascinating speeches that tend to be made after the second or third glass of wine .
26 The Nile Delta permit will be relinquished in the second half of 1992 .
27 Now they appear to be looking to a Second Division centre forward to do the business .
28 Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation .
29 AV 4300s can be upgraded with a second CPU for £5,400 , doubling the power from 29 to 58 MIPS for less than half the cost of the original machine , according to DG .
30 The Hermitage 's marble version of ‘ Orpheus ’ can be compared with the stone version in Venice and the ‘ Venus ’ from Palazzo Pitti in Florence can be seen with the second version from Munich .
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