Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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1 | There was also the sensitive question of returning land to ethnic Germans and Hungarians , whose land had been expropriated immediately after the Second World War as punishment for their alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupiers . |
2 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |
3 | MAKESHIFT court proceedings in the home of a dying lung-cancer victim , Alfred McTear , had to be abandoned halfway through the second day yesterday on doctor 's advice . |
4 | In the early 19th century , however , new legislation inadvertently deprived the press of its fiscal advantages , and its publishing petered out , to be revived only after the Second World War . |
5 | Certain ‘ representatives of the Afghan people ’ would be admitted only at the second stage of the conference and they would need to accept the decisions of the conference . |
6 | Disc jockeys added a ‘ voice ’ to formerly instrumental discs which would then be recorded again for the second version of the same record . |
7 | Proposals for a maximum carcase weight of 380kg , which was more than likely to be introduced this July , could mean heavier animals having to be marketed earlier before the second qualifying period . |
8 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
9 | The sections were evaluated blindly by the second author twice with two months interval . |
10 | It is believed to have been composed early in the second century , very likely by an individual who was indeed named Jude and who , together with his brother James , presided over the Nazarean party at the time . |
11 | In any case , it 's tucked away in the second half of the book , after Offred 's prison-like existence has been thoroughly , horribly established . |
12 | This restriction does not lose us any power , however , because every occam program can be identified with the set of its finite syntactic approximations ( a term which is defined precisely in the second section ) . |
13 | He was booked early in the second half for a clattering foul on Abel . |
14 | A family which was torn apart during the Second World War has had an emotional reunion . |
15 | The New Town , the central part of which was built mainly in the second half of the eighteenth century , is more spaciously laid out in classical streets and squares — ‘ not only gay and airy ’ , said Robert Louis Stevenson , ‘ but highly picturesque ’ . |
16 | It was used extensively during the Second World War , and is still used in parts of the Third World to help eradicate malaria and typhus . |
17 | Prednisone was used less during the second year ; twenty six patients received one course and 10 children two or more courses . |
18 | Millmead battled away and did the best they could , but their cause was blighted further during the second half when they were reduced to eight men due to injury . |
19 | He was replaced early in the second half by Shutt . |
20 | The message of the first oil shock was driven home by the second , when the Iranian revolution caused a further doubling of world crude prices . |
21 | But that was abandoned midway through the second half . |
22 | The stone disimpacted in eight of these patients after seven to 10 days decompression and was removed successfully at the second stage , whereas five of six patients with persistent stone impaction required more than one session for stone clearance . |
23 | He had been a deputy in parliament for the Swiss Party of Labour from 1944 , when it was founded , to 1986 , having represented the Communist Party from 1936 until it was banned shortly before the Second World War . |