Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bidding for the second lot of the sale , a thirteenth-century oak cathedral chest with iron strapwork from Durham , tripled the high estimate to reach FFr1.1 million ( £114,300 ; $198,900 ) , establishing a world record for English oak furniture . |
| 2 | The ‘ Westminster model ’ of government was envied by Europeans , rebuilding after the Second World War , and studied by conscientious foreign politicians , engaged in the planning of new nations . |
| 3 | British politics in the 1930s were often disillusioning for the labour movement , starting with the defection of the Labour Party 's leadership and the Party 's electoral eclipse , and ending with the Second World War , which destroyed the party 's hope of peace through disarmament and the League of Nations . |
| 4 | On such a calendar , the Gunflint fossils of algae-like organisms , which seemed so extremely ancient when they were first discovered , are seen to be quite latecomers in the history of life , not appearing until the second week of August . |
| 5 | CD 's second novel , written for serialization in Richard Bentley 's monthly magazine , Bentley 's Miscellany , of which CD was the first editor , the first instalment appearing in the second issue of Feb. 1837 . |
| 6 | The ensemble includes two flutes , one doubling piccolo : Mozart never wrote a serenade for wind using flutes , but of course The Magic Flute there had to be flutes , Papageno 's pipes too , represented at the very beginning of the first movement , and returning in the second movement , by the piccolo . |
| 7 | But knocking on the second door she came to was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 8 | His second example involved a transhipment bill of lading issued by the first carrier and damage or loss occurring on the second carrier 's vessel . |
| 9 | Returning to the second courtyard , start by visiting the Chapel of the Holy Rood . |
| 10 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 11 | Indeed , it must have occurred on just one of those summer evenings she mentions , for I can recall distinctly climbing to the second landing and seeing before me a series of orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom of the corridor where each bedroom door stood ajar . |
| 12 | Although some NMR studies have shown that it is possible to bind two actinomycin molecules to the tetranucleotide GCGC [ 29 ] , binding of the second molecule is highly anticooperative and it is generally believed that the exclusion site size for actinomycin , under normal conditions , is at least 4 base pairs [ 1 ] . |
| 13 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 14 | BRIGHTNESS the beluga whale has been seen swimming happily in the Black Sea after escaping for the second time . |
| 15 | The craft passes down a wide channel between sheer cliffs lined with castles , ramparts and defences , before passing through the second portal , a gate of shining silver set with sapphires the size of a man 's head . |
| 16 | Dexter realised his fingers were shaking as he finished reading Nicola 's round , almost childish , writing for the second time . |
| 17 | Brian Cervi leads the first XI , with Lloyd Edwards and Bernie Tutte looking after the second team . |
| 18 | Radio operator Paul , who is serving with the Second Battalion Royal Irish Regiment , said : ‘ Gillian is the perfect bride I only hope I can be as good a husband . ’ |
| 19 | The third framework programme , once approved by the Council and Parliament , would run from 1990 to 1994 thus overlapping with the second framework programme ( see p. 36052 ) . |
| 20 | The drunken miller 's incoherency , " " as he were on the quakke " " ( 4152 ) recalls how Nicholas puts the equivalent of an ass 's head on John the carpenter by portraying him , absurdly , as a duck swimming above the Second Flood ( 3575 – 6 ) . |
| 21 | He can not possibly have played better despite tiring in the second half of a patchy but exciting final . |
| 22 | The bibliography , with abbreviations used in the text , is comprehensive and covers one hundred and twenty works ranging from the second edition of the commentaries on Dioscorides 's Materia medica by Pierandrea Mattioli , printed in Venice in 1558 , to the second edition of Linnaeus 's Species Plantarum , published in Stockholm in 1765 . |
| 23 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 24 | The new general SVQs will be available for implementation later in the year , and a letter will be sent to all centres in March regarding piloting in the second phase . |
| 25 | It is one of the capital 's earliest Gothic buildings , dating from the second half of the 13C , and is one of the earliest surviving synagogues in Europe . |
| 26 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 27 | Several of Sisley 's early paintings dating from the second half of the 1860s were accepted for display in the official Salon , but during the 1870s he began to paint in a fully fledged Impressionist style characterized by pure colours applied with broken brush strokes and bright light . |
| 28 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 29 | The large lump was a swollen gland — probably the result of the blood irregularity which , according to the second test , had now returned to normal . |
| 30 | According to the second interpretation even this may substantially overstate the effect of the section . |