Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 2 | In fact , if the children aged thirty and above are considered as the second generation of adults , then three-quarters of the men and two-thirds of the women were living in parishes other than Cardington . |
| 3 | Clearly these are still working groups , usually of type ( ii ) , with a manifesto , a periodical and exhibitions , but there has also been a change of some kind in their social relations , and this can best be understood by the second kind of analysis , of the proposed and actual relations with all those beyond the group . |
| 4 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 5 | All the ideas expressible in the second can be reproduced in the first , but , for instance , the notions of disjunction ( v ) and implication ( 6 ) and negation ( * ) which occur in the first can not be expressed in the second . |
| 6 | But the 2-1 favourite was under pressure almost from the outset and betting slips were already being crumpled before the second circuit . |
| 7 | Moreover , Taylor J felt that J 's dyslexia was a ‘ disability ’ and thus was covered by the second definition of learning difficulty ( above ) . |
| 8 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 9 | For example , medicine ran to 80 pages , whereas the schedule for chemical technology had hardly been modified since the second edition . |
| 10 | Sunderland may be playing at Wembley next month but they may also be relegated from the Second Division despite having games in hand . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the year , the older ‘ classical ’ form is introduced , and study of both is continued into the second year . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp 's NT is now being touted for the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 13 | It has been used successfully in the drilling of the first extended-reach well to the offshore extension of the Sherwood reservoir lying under Poole Bay and is now being used for the second well being drilled . |
| 14 | It is therefore appropriate to express general solutions in the form ( 10.76 ) This solution will from now on simply be quoted in the second form since either equation formally includes the other . |
| 15 | It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war . |