Example sentences of "[noun prp] of the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | There are examples in Chartres and a few have survived the devastation in Normandy of the Second World War at Lisieux , Caen and Rouen . |
| 4 | This contraption was invented by an Englishman , Captain Bulkeley of the Second Life Guards , in 1848 for his wife who had difficulty in walking and who felt sick when using the other forms of transport then available . |
| 5 | The other writer who has deeply interested me is Jan Struther , the Mrs Miniver of the Second World War . |
| 6 | Obviously there had been no notices after the first night , and few of the critics of the major papers would have had time , let alone interest , to give the play a second viewing ; but a North London local paper with a weekly deadline had sent along its critic on the Monday of the second week , and their review appeared on the Thursday . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ When are you going to Greece ? ’ his mother asked on the Wednesday of the second week , while they were doing the washing-up . |
| 9 | He drew strong criticism from Jews and many gentile Poles , by comparing abortion with the Holocaust of the Second World War , when 600,000 Polish citizens were murdered . |
| 10 | In the Oxford of the second half of the nineteenth century , parochial , preoccupied with spiritual and philosophical problems , the Oxford of Benjamin Jowett , Walter Pater , and Mark Pattison [ qq.v. ] , his interests and experiences must have set him apart ; he rarely figures in the histories and biographies centred on the life of the university . |
| 11 | The divergence is important , perhaps crucial , because Pound and Eliot , American expatriates of roughly the same generation , in the London of the second decade of this century made common cause and thereafter — despite ever wider ideological disagreements — remained friends , mutually respectful and mutually supporting , until Eliot 's death in 1965 . |
| 12 | It seems certain that they first found their way from the Creole of the first generation Caribbean migrants into the LE of the second generation , where they occur very frequently . |