Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [art] second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such attempt came to nothing during the Second World War , when a military coup mounted under the pro-Nazi Rashid Ali al-Gailani was defeated . |
| 2 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 3 | What was mocked was the arrogant superiority of the traditionally educated arts man who knew nothing of the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 4 | Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April . |
| 5 | Therefore , should we not use our strength and influence to try to organise throughout the west a Marshall plan , similar to the one after the second world war , to strengthen the hands of those who are doing their utmost to stave off anything approximating to anarchy ? |
| 6 | As PostScript is something of a second fiddle to Hewlett-Packard 's PCL in the PC world you might have thought that this was nothing to do with you . |
| 7 | This means that for many of its black speakers as well as virtually all its white speakers , the London variety of Creole is something like a second language or dialect , learnt around the time of transition between childhood and adolescence . |
| 8 | ‘ Above all , the British industrial revolution was a regional phenomenon ’ ( Pollard , 1981 ) ; but often pioneering regions , four declined soon after they had made their vital contribution ( Cornwall , Shropshire , North Wales and the Derbyshire uplands ) , while two more ( Tyneside and Clydeside ) had to get something like a second wind to survive as centres of expanding metal industries and shipbuilding . |
| 9 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 10 | That night I belted out one of my favourite speeches , the one from the second part of Henry IV in which the new king , Henry V , rejects the friendship of Falstaff . |
| 11 | Scotland 's Under-21 side will contain six First Division players and one from the Second Division in an experimental gathering designed to look for players eligible to take part in the summer 's world invitation event in Toulon . |
| 12 | In Dusun , for example , two different sequence particles are used in the verb phrases — one in the first clause an a different one in the second clause . |
| 13 | The one in the second year . |
| 14 | Erm you know the one in the second year ? |
| 15 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
| 16 | Ah , that one on the second floor . |
| 17 | First one on the second side |
| 18 | he has n't missed one since the second world war |
| 19 | Data from one patient at the first stage and another one at the second stage and from two volunteers had to be excluded because of appreciable probe drift , apparent at probe calibration after the test . |
| 20 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 21 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 22 | Independent software vendors will be charged nothing until the second year when a $2,500 fee per company will be levied . |
| 23 | We do n't get any paid anything in the second year ? |
| 24 | Buying was dealer dominated , with a London dealer scooping up three of the top 10 lots in the second session . |