Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed it was this economic growth which made the Second Empire so important for 19th- and even 20th-century France . |
| 3 | On the popular front is Mireille Johnston 's Complete French Cookery Course , Part 2 ( BBC ) , which accompanies the second television series . |
| 4 | Which introduces the second theme , the rationalisation of housework . |
| 5 | ‘ Ian took a bit of a battering on Saturday and I have studied the video of the game which shows the second goal was down to him . |
| 6 | ‘ The Roman Carnival , which forms the Second Act finale , is the most difficult crowd scene I know of . |
| 7 | Most of the prototypes of both civil and military aircraft which followed the Second World War were fitted with both still and movie cameras for recording specially fitted instrument panels , but their use was confined to test flying and performance proving . |
| 8 | Such aspects of Fascist economics were almost an anticipation of Labour government policy in the crises which followed the Second World War . |
| 9 | That permitted a last Malthusian response to the then unprecedented economic growth and prosperity which followed the Second World War . |
| 10 | In May 1991 the prince visited Prague , a city which survived the Second World War unscathed , during an East European trip with the Princess of Wales . |
| 11 | Moving a few yards along the tunnel , he found a crevice into which to wedge the second pack , with the sensor directed behind . |
| 12 | An example may be found in Mozart 's third sentence from the Andante just quoted : This looks quite different from the previous section ( Example 26 ) , yet it is really made up of semiquaver groups which end the second sentence , with the addition of the dotted rhythm which begins the second full bar of the music . |
| 13 | The turning point in community reaction came with the campaign against uranium prospecting and mining , which represented the second wave of mineral exploration . |
| 14 | In the centre is a long paper fastener which permits the second circle to spin round so that the picture will appear in the window . |
| 15 | " Pedro Churruca " — wayward child , self-seeking politician , defender of the Republic and bringer of pain to his mother — represented a mixture of Ramón Franco and Francisco 's detestation of politicians and of the democratic ideals which inspired the Second Republic . |
| 16 | The path length a an X-ray ( path A in figure 3.17 ) which strikes the top layer of atoms in a crystal is shorter than that of an X-ray which strikes the second layer ( path B ) . |
| 17 | This claim illuminates one of the recurrent features of the military history of the period ; the frequent presence of the men of one civitas or another on campaign , above all during the civil wars which bedevilled the second half of the sixth century , when rivalry between cities seems to have exacerbated problems . |
| 18 | He climbed up the outside staircase past the fountains surrounded by black-veiled women filling their pots with water and out on to the little parapeted promenade which crowned the second storey . |
| 19 | In addition to an absorbing interpretation of Winterreise , which comprises the second CD , we have a strange mélange on the first disc that consists of some of the songs arranged for viola and piano , some for piano alone , and some of the poems merely being read by Peter Härtling , who ends the disc with a 12-minute Epilogue , discoursing on Müller 's life . |