Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 2 | Viral hepatitis has been recognized since the Second World War as being divisible into two distinct types . |
| 3 | More controversial shots of a spoof wedding ceremony and a lesbian couple kissing , both featuring bare breasts , have been placed in the second of two rooms housing the exhibition . |
| 4 | A new Communication and Information Thesaurus has been developed from the second edition of Unesco 's Mass Communication Thesaurus . |
| 5 | Here B has been partitioned between the second and third rows to give , at the top , a ( 2 × 5 ) submatrix ( ignore the vertical partition for the moment ) ; C between the fourth and fifth columns to give , on the left , a ( 5 × 4 ) submatrix . |
| 6 | It had been erected in the second half of the second century to house c number of specialist kilns and furnaces , but clearly overlay the remains of earlier bonfire kilns and spreads of potters ' clay . |
| 7 | NATO had been formed after the Second World War in order to tie North America and Western Europe together in a military alliance against the perceived threat of world domination by the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | This collection had been formed in the second half of the eighteenth century by John Hunter who was largely responsible for raising surgery from a craft to a profession in England , and was the greatest anatomist and physiologist of his day . |
| 9 | For example , medicine ran to 80 pages , whereas the schedule for chemical technology had hardly been modified since the second edition . |
| 10 | They failed to meet the League 's noon deadline to provide assurances they could continue and tomorrow 's Coca-Cola Cup tie at Reading has been cancelled with the Second Division side getting a bye . |
| 11 | He was devastated when he discovered his premises had been attacked for the second time . |
| 12 | On April 1 , 1990 , the Hungarian Zionists Association which had been dissolved after the Second World War , was re-established , with the aim of promoting the formation of a minority council within the Jewish community . |
| 13 | One can still see this triumph of Brindley 's engineering skill , though it is now disused , having been superseded by a second tunnel , parallel with the first , which was constructed by Telford in 1827 . |
| 14 | The earlier phases of his career had been dominated by the Second World War , the Cold War and the threat of a Third World War , and the Algerian War . |
| 15 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 16 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |
| 17 | Not only has that disc problem proved frustrating , but so has the inactivity temporarily imposed by a series of exploratory tests to assess the damage : ‘ Having been injured in the second tour match against Queensland I got back to full fitness , played in the First Test and was looking forward to the second . |
| 18 | Both methods have been used here , principally the first , but some interesting comparisons have been made with the second . |
| 19 | Their studies have also led to some surprising conclusions concerning chronology : Jacopo Bellini 's Paris album they have argued , contrary to most of the literature , precedes the London album , which they date to 1460–70 ; they have been able to date Paolino Veneto 's Map of Venice in the Marciana Library precisely to around 1328 , when previously it was thought to have been made in the second half of the century . |
| 20 | It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war . |
| 21 | By the time the customer walked into the shop , the joint had been wrapped by a second assistant whilst a third would fill the empty space in the window . |
| 22 | OUSTED councillor Ralph Knight has been snubbed for the second time in two months by members of his own party , it was revealed last night . |
| 23 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 24 | Since the trial , the Code had been replaced by a second edition . |
| 25 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 26 | By driving his own cars when he was past his peak as a driver , he lost out on the development that could have been contributed by a second opinion . |
| 27 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 28 | Parliament elects a President for a four-year term ( the current President , Wee Kim Wee , having been re-elected for a second term in August 1989 — see below ) who appoints a Cabinet headed by a Prime Minister and responsible to Parliament . |
| 29 | And , had the normally reliable Michael Lynagh been on target with the boot , Australia 's record score against Scotland would have been eclipsed in the Second Test at Ballymore . |
| 30 | A RECORD entry of 129 bulls and 22 breeding females have been entered for the second Autumn Multi-breed Show and Sale of Pedigree Beef Cattle beef cattle , on the Royal Welsh Showground , Builth Wells , on November 13 . |