Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands , who visited Japan on Oct. 20-26 , received a formal apology on Oct. 23 from Kaifu for the " unbearable suffering " inflicted by Japanese soldiers on Dutch internees during the occupation of Indonesia in the Second World War . |
| 32 | Arsenal lost Danish international Jensen with a hip injury and England defender Adams in the second half but still have no real excuses . |
| 33 | He sat for his home town of Stafford in the second Protectorate Parliament of 1656–8 , but is recorded as a more active speaker in the 1659 Parliament of Richard Cromwell [ q.v . ] . |
| 34 | A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) . |
| 35 | On land the Company was not really strong enough for such antics , but its naval superiority gave it a place in the third or fourth rank of powers in India , beneath the Emperor at the top and great rulers like the Nawab of Bengal in the second rank . |
| 36 | Oxford United have been drawn against premier league club Aston Villa in the second round of the Coca Cola cup . |
| 37 | The London-based Swede , champion in 1988 and 1990 , launches his hat-trick bid against a qualifier and would face either another qualifier or Israeli claycourter Amos Mansdorf in the second round . |
| 38 | It was even Steven in the second half , but towards the end Gloucester roared into life . |
| 39 | Billy Row Workmens beat Belle Vue WMC in the second semi-final and eventually succumbed to Bishop Auckland in the final . |
| 40 | The products , internally tested the last six months and now going into formal beta , will be available direct and through VARs in the second quarter . |
| 41 | But , according to Elland Road boss Howard Wilkinson , he has a hard task to follow the performance of Belgian official Alphonse Constantin in the second round first leg at Ibrox . |
| 42 | He promptly consigned his five per cent of the vote to Mr Mitterrand in the second round , a gift whch the Socialist candidate happily accepted . |
| 43 | Saracens , formed in 1896 by a breakaway group from the YMCA , are captained by Nick Bridgman in the second row , but their backs are their strength , with Mike Baker outstanding at scrum-half . |
| 44 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 45 | The development of a civil service style of correctional administration can serve as the starting-point for my main theme , a comparison of Howard 's concerns with the changes , reforms and setbacks of prison administration in Texas since the Second World War . |
| 46 | Elected for Northamptonshire to the second Protectorate Parliament ( 1656–8 ) , he was prominent in the debates over the alleged ‘ horrid blasphemy ’ at Bristol of the Quaker James Nayler [ q.v. ] , revealing thereby the limitations of his own toleration . |
| 47 | Beattie easily got the better of Kevin Schwantz on the second lap , leaving the Lucky Strike Suzuki rider from Texas with a tough job to keep his own team-mate Doug Chandler at bay . |
| 48 | There is little doubt that a relationship of this type has developed in the United States since the Second World War . |
| 49 | I got Toby on the second ring and explained Sally 's suggestion . |
| 50 | They were used as woven decorations to headdresses and the borders of garments found in richer graves in England during the second half of the sixth and early seventh centuries , significantly mainly in Kent . |
| 51 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 52 | Still on the subject of voice , let me remind you of the slogan which heralded the government 's campaign against German spies in England during the Second World War . |
| 53 | For example , how to land allied armies and vast quantities of supplies on the beaches of enemy-occupied Normandy during the Second World War ? |
| 54 | NEIL FOSTER , recalled by England for the second Test against Australia at Lord 's this week , was today fined £250 by his county Essex for his ‘ stump kicking ’ outburst . |
| 55 | FOUR-year-old Lucy Gill saved her epileptic dad Liam for the second time in two weeks by dialling 999 when he fell at their West Bromwich home . |
| 56 | At one time sharing the old Norn language , even there we had been forced to diverge , because while Shetland became absorbed into Scotland and obliged to take on the Scots/English language , the Faroese managed to retain and develop their own language , using that of their ‘ parent ’ country Denmark as the second tongue . |
| 57 | Not to be outdone , Liverpool defender Steve Staunton capably filled the striking boots of Ian Rush for the second half , scoring all three goals in their 3-0 win over Wigan for an 8-2 aggregate result . |
| 58 | The Ukrainian delegation offered to resettle in Ukraine the ethnic Germans who were forcibly deported from Ukraine during the Second World War . |
| 59 | News on Ronny is that he is in fact at Tottenham for the second week now . |
| 60 | But Okay then So I 'm here speaking to Walter and David and you 've both worked at Lyness during the second war . |