Example sentences of "the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | This took such forms as the praise of regionalism in the United States in the 1930s , Marxist criticism in London or New York , or Communist positions taken by Italian critics after the Second World War . |
| 2 | Let us walk with a visitor through the city , a veteran of the Second World War who values it as one which was almost unscathed from the bombing which devastated so many European cities . |
| 3 | His secretary , the poet Rainer Maria Rilke , wrote with feeling about his work , but during the 1920s Rodin was less regarded , and not until after the Second World War did his reputation revive under the stimulus of exhibitions and increasingly careful cataloguing of his work . |
| 4 | The second half of the nineteenth century saw new standards achieved in art historical scholarship , both through the careful study of documents and by close scrutiny of works of art . |
| 5 | Let us look at the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | After the Second World War , for example , the photographer Alexander Liberman decided to visit the studios of artists who had contributed to a century of painting in France , painters and sculptors closely connected with the School of Paris . |
| 7 | The second exhibition included thirty-one artists . |
| 8 | In Victorian Britain or France during the Second Empire the critic had some influence over taste . |
| 9 | The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote . |
| 10 | The second half of this can be seen to coincide with the opinion of Chatterton which is expressed by Ackroyd 's Wilde : ‘ a strange , slight boy who was so prodigal of his genius that he attached the names of others to it . ’ |
| 11 | In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him . |
| 12 | From the ordeal of his first marriage to the late happiness of the second , the book locks , at one level , into a recital of misfortunes and a medical record . |
| 13 | The second story is set in and around a country hotel , where the wife of a coarse doctor takes a more than kindly interest in a Klima wide-awake to the sights and sounds of this paradise . |
| 14 | Present in the second book as the occupant of an Iranian hotel room sifting through his papers , photographs and cassettes , Kapuscinski recites the history of the region , which has thrust the Shah of Shahs into the sand in the posture of the statue of the ‘ King of Kings ’ in Shelley 's tyrannophobe poem . |
| 15 | In the second book , a photograph is spoken of which ‘ shows the pulling down of a monument to one of the Shahs ( father or son ) in Teheran or some other Iranian city . |
| 16 | The second sentence of the issue of May 1988 refers to the first twenty years of the state : ‘ Threatening to ‘ push the Jews into the sea ’ , the Arab world reformulated the Nazi theory of Lebensraum in Mediterranean terms : there was no room in the region for a Jewish homeland . ’ |
| 17 | It 's worthwhile reading some pre-Shakespearean drama ; you could read Everyman , a great morality play of the late Middle Ages , and Gammer Gurton 's Needle , first performed in 1566 and thought to be the second oldest English comedy . |
| 18 | The most vital explosion of British theatre writing since the Second World War came with the foundation of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in London , under the direction of George Devine : the first season mounted there included John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger . |
| 19 | At nearly all schools no stage performances will be seen by an audience until at least the end of the second term . |
| 20 | Perhaps some of the voice teaching was repetitive in the second term , but when there was a change in voice tutor who developed pieces of your own choice rather than just vocal exercises the whole thing came alive and interesting . |
| 21 | The second year . |
| 22 | The second year you realise that it 's terribly , terribly hard . |
| 23 | Henry V and the second piece I 'd like to do is a contract if … if , that is , we have time . ’ |
| 24 | There is an elective affinity between this cultural vision and the religious vision of the Roman catholic church prior to the second Vatican Council , in its exclusivist attitude towards other Christian churches , an attitude which is far from overcome at the level of popular Roman catholicism . |
| 25 | The transformations effected by the second Vatican Council of 1962–5 in liturgy , sacrament , scripture , and so on led to the accelerated decline of traditional rituals such as wakes and pilgrimages to local shrines . |
| 26 | It will be argued that when the second source is threatened as well as the first , the power to coerce can devolve on the civil sphere in a substantive way . |
| 27 | The second likely reason for the deliberate use of church teaching in formulating parts of the constitution is implicit in the presence of the papal-oriented articles of the constitution themselves . |
| 28 | The second case reveals even more the extent to which the legitimation of the state was a Roman catholic affair , at least as one of the two principal sources of power in the alliance . |
| 29 | The influence of the second Vatican Council ( 1962–5 ) has enabled theological discourse to become dominated by non-hierarchical models of the church and a generally eirenic theology in which all the churches in Ireland share . |
| 30 | When it fell to Dukes to introduce the second stage of the Bill empowering the referendum , he was forced to address himself specifically to the bishops ' arguments in their letter ( text , Irish Times , 15 May 1986 ) . |