Example sentences of "the second [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ‘ The first assistant director , ’ he says when I query his qualifications for the role , ‘ just had to shout at the second assistant director . ’ ) |
| 2 | An alternative programme to the 1992 500th anniversary celebrations was discussed in Quetzaltenango in Guatemala in the week ending Oct. 12 by 224 representatives of indigenous peoples from 27 countries in the Americas , at the Second Continental Encounter of Indigenous , Black and People 's Resistance . |
| 3 | The second practical problem is regulatory capture . |
| 4 | It was the second Unionist lever against Home Rule that helped to involve the King , for it assumed that Home Rule would become law , would be repudiated in Ulster , and that then the army would refuse to enforce it . |
| 5 | Sex was the second principal category covered by the code — this is what it had to say on that subject as well as Vulgarity , Obscenity , profanity , Costume and Dances : |
| 6 | The second principal reason is that the Government 's announcement of the route from the east via Stratford throws the scheme into question . |
| 7 | The second principal source of primary data on which a study of lexical semantics can be based is furnished by intuitive semantic judgements by native speakers of linguistic materials of one kind or another . |
| 8 | With coffee prices badly depressed , the tea industry seemed set to become the second principal source of foreign exchange earnings . |
| 9 | The second anti-avoidance provision is " hidden " in the new exchange gains and losses regime in Sch 17 of the Finance Act 1993 . |
| 10 | This makes the second ferreting campaign very much easier since there are fewer holes to deal with . |
| 11 | The second norwegian half was bloody excellent from Norway and for the first time a norwegian team wins a away in eastern Europe . |
| 12 | The second oral tradition concerns English . |
| 13 | The second oral papilla is in fact the superficial first oral tentacle scale . |
| 14 | The second oral tentacle pore emerges superficially . |
| 15 | The second oral tentacle pore arises superficial . |
| 16 | The second oral tentacle pore arises superficially . |
| 17 | The second oral tentacle pore arises superficially above the jaws , when viewed ventrally . |
| 18 | This family is characterised externally by thickened skin covering the disk and arms which conceals the reduced or fragmented plates of scales ; rudimentary and inconspicuous radial shields ; the jaws usually as broad as long or longer than broad armed with simple spine-like or broad scale-like rugose papillae ; the second oral tentacle pore may arise within the mouth slit as in Ophiomyxa , or more superficially and nearly outside the mouth slip as in Ophioscolex and Ophiophrixus ; oral area usually covered with skin which may obscure the underlying plates ; the arm spines erect laterally placed , covered with thickened skin . |
| 19 | The second oral tentacle pore emerges superficially and is armed with one or two large tentacle scales , situated on the adoral shields and similar to the arm spines . |
| 20 | The adoral shields are long and slightly curved , indented over the area of the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 21 | O. glacialis can be distinguished from O. purpureus by the absence of tentacle scales ; the shape and position of the second oral tentacle scales and by a lack of dorsal arm plates . |
| 22 | Distal to the oral papillae there are 2–3 large flat tentacle scales of the second oral tentacle pore , often forming a series with the oral papillae . |
| 23 | O. purpureus can be distinguished by the presence of dorsal arm plates , the arrangement of the tentacle scales of the second oral tentacle pore , the presence of one long flat tentacle scale on each arm pore and the transformation of the dorsal spines into hooks . |
| 24 | There are 3 oral papillae situated within the mouth slit below the level of the second oral tentacle pore which emerges quite superficially . |
| 25 | There are no tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 26 | O. spinosus can be distinguished by the thin bar shaped radial shields which carry a single row of spinelets , the pointed oral and apical papillae , the lack of tentacle scales on the second oral tentacle pore and the thick skin which covers the disk and arms . |
| 27 | The jaw : the characters are : ( a ) the shape of the jaw ; ( b ) the shape and arrangement of the apical and oral papillae ; ( c ) the shape of the adoral and oral shields ; ( d ) in species of the Ophiotominae the arrangement of the tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore and their alignment with the oral papillae. 3 . |
| 28 | They appear to be quite randomly arranged on the distal portion of the jaw although sometimes they appear to cluster in the region of the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 29 | Distal to them there are several longer more spine-like papillae usually associated with the second oral tentacle pore ; these papillae can be regarded as tentacle scales . |
| 30 | There is a pointed slightly rugose apical papilla flanked on either side by 3–4 pointed oral papillae which form a continuous series with 2–3 tentacle scales of the second oral tentacle pore . |