Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other indicators suggest , at best , a weak rebound in the second quarter ; but consumer confidence plunged in May to below its level a year ago . |
| 2 | Humming softly , Caroline made her way up the broad stairway to the second floor of the palazzo . |
| 3 | But the England B international dragged a glorious chance wide with his right foot in the second minute , and repeated the sin in injury time with his left . |
| 4 | Prior Robert , still stonily silent and shocked out of his normal studied dignity , led away his shattered clerk to the second of the two penitentiary cells ; and it was the first time , as far as Cadfael could recall , that the two had ever been occupied at the same time . |
| 5 | It will then go to the European Parliament for the second reading . |
| 6 | In the context of a smoother short-term response to the second oil shock and a higher long-term economic growth path than in the West , there was an acceleration of interest in the notion of Japan 's uniqueness not in the vein of inferiority or economic fragility , but in the context of superiority and independence . |
| 7 | The first-year course gives a broad introduction which is taken to a more advanced level in the second year . |
| 8 | ‘ It is plainly in the interests of the more efficient administration of justice that there should be split trials in appropriate cases , as even where the decision on the first part of a split trial is such that there will have to be a second part , it may be desirable that the decision shall be appealed before incurring the possibly unnecessary expense of the second part . |
| 9 | They had no direct experience of the Second Republic or the Civil War and so were less fearful of the consequences of change . |
| 10 | They lost their scrum-half , Adam Brosnan , after three minutes of the first match and their captain , Jonathan Ions , with a broken jaw in the second match plus four more serious injuries and a host of minor injuries . |
| 11 | However with the introduction of french polishing in the second quarter of the nineteenth century , oak came into its own , as elm could not be so treated . |
| 12 | We know that he was the archetypal loyal Thatcherite Back Bencher in the Second Reading debate four years ago . |
| 13 | Also , reissued for the first time , as a pendant to the complete recording , is the first published take of the Second Symphony 's Rondo . |
| 14 | However , apart from these demonstrations and an outbreak of panic buying in the last days of March , the public response to the second stage of price liberalization was muted , in marked contrast to the street protests which had greeted the first state in November 1990 [ see p. 37866 ] . |
| 15 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of June 27 , the aim of the new strategy , the New Development Policy ( NDP — for March release of working paper see p. 38100 ) , was to provide a theoretical framework for the Second Outline Perspective Plan ( OPP2 ) for 1991-2000 . |
| 16 | The so-called New Development Policy ( NDP ) was devised to provide a theoretical framework for the Second Outline Perspective Plan ( OPP2 ) for 1991-2000 , the first phase of Mahathir 's plan to build Malaysia into a fully developed state by 2020 . |
| 17 | In East Berlin in October , in his speech marking the German Democratic Republic 's 40th anniversary , Mr Gorbachev reminded the world that the Soviet Union had advocated the preservation of German unity after the second world war . |
| 18 | She burst out of the tunnel into the dim light of the second pill-box . |
| 19 | The Cambridge historian Correlli Barnett , in The Audit of War , shows how the inadequacies of British industry in the Second World War were masked by the huge flow of equipment free of charge from the US under the Lend-Lease programme . |
| 20 | Participants will be invited to submit a five minute script for the second session . |
| 21 | There are several other quotes in the contrapuntal fabric of the second movement too . |
| 22 | The view has been expressed in some quarters that experience gained in implementation of the First Directive would be very valuable in carrying out detailed work on the Second . |
| 23 | Our failure to find a difference between cholecystectomy and gall stone subjects could , in theory , be because a high proportion of the second group having a non-functioning gall bladder as , from the physiological standpoint , a non-functional gall bladder is equivalent to cholecystectomy . |
| 24 | A particular word-meaning which participates in this way in the meaning of another word will be termed a semantic trait of the second word . |
| 25 | It was first noted in Ballet Imperial ( 1941 ) when every time a scale-like passage in the second movement of Tchaikovsky 's Piano Concerto No. 2 is played , the three soloists link hands to make two arches through which the corps de ballet ‘ ran round the houses ’ ( Edwin Evans ) . |
| 26 | Against a Coventry side in no fit state to make much of a fist of it , Liley was away like the wind midway through the second half on a 45-yard run for the second of Leicester 's four tries . |
| 27 | British Intelligence in the Second World War , Vol. 4 : Security and Counter-Intelligence . |
| 28 | Sir Harry Hinsley in British Intelligence in the Second World War has summarised the awesome challenge : ‘ Instructions for arranging and setting the wheels could be changed as frequently as every 24 hours ; anyone not knowing the setting was faced with the problem of choosing from one hundred and fifty million , million , million solutions . ’ |
| 29 | [ F. H. Hinsley and C. A. G. Simkins , British Intelligence in the Second World War , vol. iv , 1990 ; Constance Kell ( wife ) , ‘ A Secret Well Kept ’ , unpublished MS in Imperial War Museum , London ; personal knowledge . ] |
| 30 | British Intelligence in the Second World War , vol. iii , part 1 , 1984 ; private information ; personal knowledge . ] |