Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the second [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 2 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 3 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 4 | Each party to the conference , including the Palestinian representation , was understood to have received during the second half of October a separate " letter of assurances ' from the US government . |
| 5 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 6 | The reader 's sympathy towards Pip continues to fall during the second part of his expectations due to his rejection and embarrassment of his past life . |
| 7 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 8 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 9 | That day , April 29 , twenty Spitfires were safely delivered to Renfrew with one each on April 30 and May 1 for a total of 52 aircraft which constituted 100% of the complement assigned for the second delivery to Malta . |
| 10 | In Action 159 ( page 2 ) incorrect details were given about the second consultation on communication studies in Latin American seminaries to be held in July 1992 . |
| 11 | Both awards were won for the second year in succession . |
| 12 | North-East champion Brian Rushworth finished a best-ever 11th in the senior men 's race , which was won for the second time by Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres gold medallist Eamonn Martin , of Basildon . |
| 13 | Domestic developments were dominated during the second half of the year by the Gulf crisis , which emphasized Djibouti 's close relationship with France at a time when it had been striving to build up its image as a non-aligned Arab state . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Chester-le-Street 's Lindsay Hardy , 15 , also won the girls race for the second year in succession , finishing 12th overall , and was surprised to beat Middlesbrough and Cleveland 's Kerry Matthew by over a minute and a half . |
| 16 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 17 | The Bath back row replaces England 's most capped No 8 Dean Richards , dropped for the second time in 12 months . |
| 18 | But he has to go some to outshine Dean Richards , dropped for the second time in a year . |
| 19 | Giant Eachus , blamed for the second goal in Cyprus which sent Bangor crashing out of Europe in midweek , gifted Glenavon two goals yesterday and is clearly suffering a crisis of confidence . |
| 20 | Giant Eachus , blamed for the second goal in Cyprus which sent Bangor crashing out of Europe in midweek , gifted Glenavon two goals yesterday and is clearly suffering a crisis of confidence . |
| 21 | Bidding for the second lot of the sale , a thirteenth-century oak cathedral chest with iron strapwork from Durham , tripled the high estimate to reach FFr1.1 million ( £114,300 ; $198,900 ) , establishing a world record for English oak furniture . |
| 22 | JANSHER KHAN narrowly avoided a ban but was fined for the second time in six weeks by the International Squash Players Association yesterday — and lost ranking points which may cost him his world No.1 spot . |
| 23 | Wrigley and Schofield have shown that between 1650–99 and 1800–49 the age at first marriage for women fell by 3·1 years ; most of the fall occurred during the second half of the eighteenth century and it was most apparent in industrial communities . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In fact , if the children aged thirty and above are considered as the second generation of adults , then three-quarters of the men and two-thirds of the women were living in parishes other than Cardington . |
| 26 | All the colleagues I have mentioned so far either abstained or voted against the Second Reading of the Maastricht Bill . |
| 27 | Whilst some might quibble with the second part of that statement , who could argue with the first ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On such a calendar , the Gunflint fossils of algae-like organisms , which seemed so extremely ancient when they were first discovered , are seen to be quite latecomers in the history of life , not appearing until the second week of August . |
| 30 | It seems reasonable to suggest that the natural theme we is omitted in the second sentence in order to foreground the rheme . |