Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now I have got that first win I am looking for the second . ’ |
| 2 | It 's , it 's no good we going tomorrow or Howard 'll be coming turn out late shift be coming out you know , might as well get ready and going out , now I 've had summat to eat , it 's only quarter to Really we 're starting into the second leaves , the frosts through to the second set of leaves these , that 's gon na be better plant and here when the wind blows |
| 3 | The boys are sinning by the second and the island is being destructed . |
| 4 | They are coming from the second and third generations of families who have migrated to this country , families who have encouraged their children to enter the professions and vocations as lawyers , doctors , nurses and local government officers and to retain their competence in their own language . |
| 5 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 6 | fuck is your bollocks I 'm going on the second lane , hooray |
| 7 | Their concern was that in September , when he should be moving into the second year infants with his age cohort , he would be far behind . |
| 8 | Brian Cook shows how to make a coffee table , and Steve Goulden will be moving to the second part of his feature on chair design and construction . |
| 9 | In this book we are dealing with the second function ; application forms as a means of making an initial selection . |
| 10 | WITH just the smallest of the 23 starters in the Whitbread Round the World Race , the 51-foot La Poste , due last into Punta del Este , Uruguay , at midnight tonight , crews are preparing for the second leg , writes Stuart Alexander . |
| 11 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 12 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 13 | As Geoffrey Holmes has suggested , the demographic and economic underpinnings of stability were emerging in the second half of the seventeenth century — a stagnant population , years of agricul-tural plenty and a more buoyant economy meant that there was not the same pressure on resources and scarcity of food and employment which had caused such social distress and serious unrest in the late-Elizabethan and early-Stuart period . |
| 14 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 15 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 16 | Radio operator Paul , who is serving with the Second Battalion Royal Irish Regiment , said : ‘ Gillian is the perfect bride I only hope I can be as good a husband . ’ |
| 17 | The loss-making company is moving into the second stage of its restructuring with the establishment on April 1 of four system units and six additional business units in an effort to give the company an organisation that reflects an increasingly differentiated market . |
| 18 | Oil slicks in Alaska and elsewhere helped Vikoma , the group 's environmental cleaning equipment manufacturer , which specialises in separating oil from water , and although Salvesen brick , is suffering in the second half from a 30 to 40 per cent cut in demand as housebuilding nosedives , the first half was prosperous and full year trading profit should be on a level with 1988 , says finance director Brian Fidler . |
| 19 | Just a bit more about Camco second half is , given these little plus and minuses you 've had in the first , first half , what 's coming in the second ? |
| 20 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 21 | Leeds is emerging as the second most important financial centre in England . |
| 22 | He is playing in the Second Division at the moment , but my priority is to get him to come to the club . ’ |
| 23 | Universal Pictures is hoping for the second lowest rating , PG parental guidance . |
| 24 | CHELSEA are banking on the second oldest swinger in town to outwit Middlesbrough 's attack tonight . |
| 25 | ‘ A lot of us have passed the first part of our exam , and are working on the second . |
| 26 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 27 | By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression . |
| 28 | Spooked was running in the second race . |
| 29 | ‘ Good , good , very good ! ’ exclaimed Mr Broadhurst — he was flicking through the second book . |
| 30 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |