Example sentences of "second [noun sg] on the " in BNC.

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1 A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island .
2 The new bill includes a second ban on the trading of sea turtles and rare coral .
3 But as May 18th and Denmark 's second referendum on the treaty approach , it seems likely that Maastricht will be approved this time .
4 To the relief of their European partners , the Danes decisively backed the Maastricht treaty ( with a few escape clauses ) in their second referendum on the issue .
5 The question is all the more pointed now that Europe is within an ace of having its Maastricht Treaty ; the British government now seems confident of winning assent from the British Parliament ( although something could still go wrong ) while Denmark will probably vote YES in its second referendum on the issue on 15 May .
6 The Government would like the bill to complete its Commons passage as soon as possible after Denmark votes in its second referendum on the treaty , set for mid May .
7 Later in the year , for defence against the Scots , convocation granted a tenth , but in 1298 it refused a possible second instalment on the ground that the Scottish threat had passed .
8 After Berry returned home to England with his party , Valeri Krishchaty and his team made a second attempt on the North-East ridge from their camp five at around 7,900m. close to the beginning of the pinnacles .
9 After a second attempt on the Shahs life , in 1965 , he decided ( and the US embassy concurred ) that the Queen should have the power to become regent in the event of his death while their son was still minor .
10 It 's the second mix on the B-side most spinners are plumping for , riding into tranceland on a deep repetitive bassline and helped along by fountains of floaty keyboards that wash you away into hypno-city .
11 Then he went to his wall safe , opened it with the second key on the ring attached by a chain to his trouser belt , and took out his papers .
12 The second remix on the er on the twelve inch .
13 The site of the second photograph on the film was thus their first port of call .
14 The amendment , originally moved by Lord Ferrers in the House of Lords , required that if any Commons vote on a matter devolved to Scotland was passed by the votes of Scottish MPs , then a second vote on the matter would have to be taken two weeks after the first .
15 In the interval there would be pressure on Scottish MPs to abstain at the second vote on the ground that their constituents were not affected .
16 Grégoire had a second convulsion on the way to hospital .
17 We have since dummy suffixes may be interchanged in the second term on the right .
18 Second , we have to ask whether firms take account of the indirect influence , via , of the change in their own output ( i.e. , the second term on the right-hand side of ( 7–20 ) ) .
19 The expectation of the second term on the right-hand side of equation ( 3.40 ) is :
20 As , ( 6.8 ) becomes since we assume that the second term on the right-hand side of ( 6.8 ) vanishes at , which will occur if is finite ( i.e. , we rule out speculative bubbles ) .
21 The second term on the right-hand side of Eq .
22 The left-hand side and the second term on the right-hand side are terms that become zero when integrated over the whole flow .
23 The second term on the right-hand side is a negative term involving the viscosity and is thus the energy dissipation .
24 There was another state where it was there — placing the second piece on the other side of the desk .
25 ‘ Get another litre of whisky ; it 's the second archway on the left .
26 Next , enter nine other matches in a second column on the coupon and bracket them into three trios with a thick , dividing line underneath each set of three selections .
27 Benson Road is the second turning on the left .
28 . Now take the second turning on the left .
29 At the top of the hill , about six furlongs out , Shikampur still led while Aureole had made significant improvement , but Gordon Richards had found a welcome opening on the rails on the run down to Tattenham Corner and slipped a perfectly balanced Pinza into second place on the turn for home .
30 A hat-trick from Jim Gannon led Stockport to a 4–1 victory over Exeter at Edgeley Park and second place on the Division Three table .
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