Example sentences of "on the second [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the serial usage of Example 139 ( the same series in each voice ) easily avoids the occurrence of octaves , octaves are formed only too easily when we use different forms together , as on the second quaver of the last bar , where all voices sound D or E♭ . |
| 2 | In 776 , when the Frankish army set out on the second invasion of Italy to quell the rebellious supporters of Prince Adelchis , the Westphalians and Engrialls revolted . |
| 3 | He concentrates his energies on survival and focuses his hope on the second addition to his life since my departure : a son , now quite as tall as his father and doing well at school . |
| 4 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 5 | The two riders broke away from the leading group on the second climb of the day . |
| 6 | They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar . |
| 7 | By April 1988 , on the second anniversary of the Chernobyl eruption , fear had made the previously obedient people of Kiev brave enough to hold their first post-glasnost street demonstration . |
| 8 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |
| 9 | The blast happened on the second anniversary of Desert Storm , in which U.S. and Allied troops expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait . |
| 10 | On the second anniversary of his kidnap , we made sure John was in the news . |
| 11 | In an update of the story on the second anniversary of the disaster , Barron 's , the American business magazine , quoted Vincent Cannistraro 's dismissal of Juval Aviv 's Interfor Report as ‘ absolute nonsense ’ , and the more recent NBC and ABC newscasts that shared some of its conclusions as ‘ total rubbish and fabrication , . |
| 12 | On the second anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster , a few days after Pan Am obtained leave to file its third-party suit against the US government , Steven Emerson aired an ‘ exclusive ’ on Cable News Network about the wave of speculation linking the DEA with the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's just coincidence that we 're ready to make our presentation on the second anniversary of Christensen 's buying out the original company . |
| 14 | On the second anniversary of his coming to office President Patricio Aylwin Azócar presented to the Congress on March 11 a package of constitutional reforms designed further to distance the government from the previous military regime . |
| 15 | UMPIRE Steve Bucknor came under fire yesterday for refusing to view a TV replay in a run-out incident which could have a bearing on the second Test between South Africa and India . |
| 16 | The list from which they are selected is held on a small computer on the second floor of the drab grey Cabinet Office building in Whitehall . |
| 17 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 18 | Only three spare rooms were to be provided on the second floor of the Foreign Office , and none were to be provided in the War Department . |
| 19 | A foreigner , and housed on the second floor of the hospital block in the cell that it was said had held the pilot Gary Powers and the businessman Greville Wynne . |
| 20 | At Vladimir , Holly had been categorized as a foreigner , he had been on the second floor of the hospital block and allowed special food and privileges . |
| 21 | And a luxury , too , had been the cell on the second floor of the hospital block at Vladimir . |
| 22 | Mr and Mrs Beavis slept downstairs , their sons and daughters on the second floor of the three-storeyed house . |
| 23 | Now , with the opening last month of thirty-nine rooms on the second floor of the Cour Carree , for French paintings and works on paper from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , the restructuring of the museum has entered a new phase more directly concerned with the collections themselves . |
| 24 | This November should see some of the works in the new galleries , from the ‘ Primitives ’ to Poussin , transferred to a suite of twenty rooms on the second floor of the Richelieu wing , which will be reached by escalators and lifts bringing visitors to the galleries of French paintings directly from the Pyramid . |
| 25 | The Swede 's office was on the second floor of the building . |
| 26 | The permanent collection will be exhibited on the second floor of the Museum and its opening will come during the year when Madrid has been selected as the Cultural Capital of Europe . |
| 27 | Newly conserved and cleaned , the altarpiece is now on display on the second floor of the Ahmanson Building , mounted in a temporary frame as it awaits a Renaissance-style gilt and sculpted frame being made in Florence . |
| 28 | I detest the room on the second floor of the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía next to the permanent collection , appropriately called El Grano ( the pimple ) , designed to protect ‘ Guernica ’ from the ravening hordes . |
| 29 | It was a spacious room on the second floor of the house overlooking the garden . |
| 30 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |