Example sentences of "[art] second [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the second scandal in a matter of days to rock the Royal Family . |
| 2 | Their Lordships accept the ‘ Salisbury doctrine ’ , produced by Lord Salisbury during the era of the post-war Attlee administration , which asserts that the Upper House should not stop the second reading of a bill that embodies proposals which appeared in the election manifesto of the governing party . |
| 3 | The Second Reading of a Bill usually deals with the principles that underlie it . |
| 4 | The EP approved on Oct. 11 the second reading of a draft law making insider trading ( ie share dealing on the basis of secret , price-sensitive company information ) a criminal offence throughout the EC from June 1992 . |
| 5 | The global trend , however , improved steadily throughout last year , the UK market making a £7 million profit in the fourth quarter for the second quarter in a row . |
| 6 | The second segment of a clause is called the rheme . |
| 7 | They devoted the second half to a work written by a composer who was also a student at the time of its creation , Josef Suk . |
| 8 | Two fine headed goals from Paul Smith and Scott Leitch wrapped up the points in a hard-fought derby match at Central Park which saw Cowdenbeath 's Billy Herd ordered off early in the second half for a foul on Neale Cooper . |
| 9 | Leeds went ahead in the second half with a goal by Wallace but their period of domination shortly came to an end and Everton pressed hard before Cottee got the equaliser . |
| 10 | Worse to come Chesterfield took the lead at the start of the second half with a goal from Paul Lemon . |
| 11 | Centre Bill Harbinson went off early in the second half with a groin injury and could miss the rest of the season . |
| 12 | Mackey turned the screw in the second half with a drop goal , and then brilliant handling ended with Ellis kicking to the corner for Neil Kenyon to go over . |
| 13 | United started the second half with a little bit more spirit , a Les Phillips header was tipped over the bar by Stowell . |
| 14 | Quick replies by Kelly Shelford and Mark Elia led to the suspicion that New Zealand could score at will and were easing themselves into their stride , but doubts arose early in the second half with a succession of missed chances . |
| 15 | Government policy was , and is , to maintain urban densities to conserve farming land , and when the developers won an appeal on the second half at a density of twelve houses per acre , the developer asked the district council whether , in view of the Secretary of State 's decision , they would agree to waive the restriction ( which they could still enforce if they wished under the Section 52 agreement ) ; this the district council agreed to do . |
| 16 | He was on the mark with a double booking midway through the second half after a scuffle between Crusaders right back Dave Mallon and Newry 's John White . |
| 17 | An apparently holistic analysis of racist images and their ideological effect is followed in the second sentence by a switch into an argument about the way racism is reproduced through processes of transmission in micro-contexts like the family or peer group . |
| 18 | The second part of a beginner 's course ( part one : Career prospects ) . |
| 19 | the second part of a compound heading ; for example , Dusting and spraying see Spraying and dusting . |
| 20 | It had already been performed in Britain and was due to open in Boston , then on Broadway as the second part of a double-bill , with another of Shaffer 's one-act plays , White Lies . |
| 21 | David Ogilvy of AOPA ( see page 88 ) kicked off the second session with a talk on airfield closures . |
| 22 | The 0.9% drop in its GDP in the fourth quarter — the second fall in a row — made Britain 's recession official . |
| 23 | However , when the trial judge came to deal with the case against the second appellant , the trial judge directed the jury that it would be open to them to interpret alleged statements by the second appellant as a confession by him that he was one of a group who assaulted the deceased , and that accordingly he would be responsible for everything done by every other member of the group that he knew was being done or was likely to be done . |
| 24 | After spending the second night in a hotel in Bristol , she awoke to find the streets and rooftops covered in snow . |
| 25 | But , for the second weekend in a row , Blissett insisted : ‘ I 've nothing to say . ’ |
| 26 | It does n't look very good , having erm , first and the second name without a space between the two , but I can actually put a space there if we entered a formula , by putting a double quote space , another double quote , and then another ampersand , filling the spaces of D six . |
| 27 | A second legal mortgage can be created by leasing the land to the second mortgagee for a term longer by at least one day than the term limited to the first mortgagee . |
| 28 | Subjects were more tolerant of the procedure on the second occasion with a tendency towards reduced salivary and gastric contamination within the oesophagus . |
| 29 | Bush appeared to have recovered from what was later described as gastric influenza by the following day , but this was the second occasion within a year that the health of the 67-year-old President — and the possible succession of Vice-President Dan Quayle — had become a major news issue [ see p. 38183 ] . |
| 30 | SELECTING jurors is ‘ a lottery within a lottery ’ and can be unfair to the administration of justice , an Old Bailey judge said yesterday , as he fined a man £100 for failing to turn up for jury service on the second day of a trial because it was ‘ not his scene ’ . |