Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what the District continued to seek was the 90% grant which the WEA 's national negotiators had raised unsuccessfully with the Ministry in 1954 and early 1955 : this goal became a recurrent theme of District meetings and literature through the second half of the decade . |
| 2 | At Birkbeck , Joyce passed the intermediate examination for his BA and then read English language and literature for the second part of his degree . |
| 3 | I felt rather lonely during my first year and part of the second . |
| 4 | Where the Toffler of The Third Wave was confident about the future , albeit with the ‘ smokestack ’ politicians and institutions of the second wave of mass society in its way , this Toffler is hesitant , fearful of violence , repression , global instability and the yearnings for a new Dark Age . |
| 5 | This one is pitched in Rosamund Pilcher territory , a many-layered family saga set in London , Kent and Germany during the Second World War . |
| 6 | It is therefore to be recommended , especially as the bass trombone could then be dropped out with safety , and could supply the E and F in the second bar below the tune ( and similar harmonic parts in the succeeding bars not given here ) . |
| 7 | cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off |
| 8 | This approach will also be suitable for many of the courses and units in the second phase but , where colleges are developing courses in the same occupational area , there is much to be gained from their collaboration . |
| 9 | All-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland , initiated by Peter Brooke , the UK Northern Ireland Secretary [ see p. 38156 ] , which were due to start on May 7 , were delayed as a result of procedural disputes mainly concerning the venue and chairing of the second strand of discussions . |
| 10 | We paid out a total of £1,322 to the subjects : £481 on the first repetition ( an average of £4.89 for each group subject and an average of £5.25 for each individual subject ) and £841 on the second repetition ( an average of £8.98 for each group subject and an average of £8.34 for each individual subject ) . |
| 11 | These Background Notes may be given to Tutors and Candidates in the Second Certificate for Legal Secretaries Examination on or after Friday 27 April 1990 . |
| 12 | Pairs of stimuli are aligned on two tracks of a magnetic tape such that the onset and offset of one stimulus coincide exactly with the onset and offset of the second stimulus . |
| 13 | This is particularly dangerous because the weight and drag of the second cable may make it difficult to get the nose down . |
| 14 | As usual , it is a trade-off between perfection and practicality with the second method being preferred . |
| 15 | Both sides had injury problems during the series , West Indies missing Logie and Ambrose from the first Test , Richards and Marshall from the second , Best , Marshall and Moseley from the fourth . |
| 16 | As usual , he fought with whirlwind ferocity , rocking the rugged little Mexican with blows to the head and body in the second round before cutting loose again early in the fourth . |
| 17 | Four years ago Count Nikolai Tolstoy was successfully sued by Lord Aldington over allegations about the repatriation of Cossacks and Slavs after the Second World War . |
| 18 | The damage and deprivation of the Second World War provided a major stimulus in Britain to the establishment of comprehensive urban planning instruments and created a social and physical environment prepared to accept radical planning ideology . |
| 19 | Those who have investigated the factors that seem to accompany economic growth and development in the second half of the twentieth century have often looked to the historical experiences of the contemporary advanced industrial societies for clues , and they have generally found that patterns of foreign trade are very important . |
| 20 | England have been shown up for the lack of quality in their line-up , although Gooch 's illness here , Michael Atherton 's illness in Calcutta and the stupidity of leaving out Phil Tufnell from the first Test and Atherton on the second Test all contributed to an unexpectedly one-sided contest . |
| 21 | As a practising canine behaviourist , I have seen a steady increase in behaviour problems relating to these two factors : geriatric anxiety and problems with the second dog . |
| 22 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 23 | Instead , the combined amount payable from next April will be £19.40 for the first child and £18.65 for the second onwards . |
| 24 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 25 | When the first of the pair is to be used alone the tails of the notes should all be turned upwards , and rests for the second player placed below . |
| 26 | Whereas the right of establishment entitles a company incorporated in one member state to set up agencies , branches and subsidiaries , without discrimination on grounds of nationality , in the territory of another , the purpose of the freedom to provide services is to enable a company established in one member state to do business in the territory of another without setting up agencies , branches or subsidiaries , and indeed without complying with all the rules and regulations of the second state , as explained below . |
| 27 | But according to the earliest Church historians , the James and Jude of the second century were the grandsons of another , older Jude , who was Jesus 's brother . |
| 28 | The secco recitative section for the Spirits of Mercy , Justice and Christ from the second aria of the work . |
| 29 | The modern practice of numbering the days of the month consecutively from the first to the last came to the West from Syria and Egypt in the second half of the sixth century . |
| 30 | BOMB disposal experts in Copenhagen yesterday said they have removed all the torpedoes and ammunition from the Second World War Nazi U-boat raised from the seabed off Denmark on Monday . |