Example sentences of "the second [be] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is that curriculum integration , augmentation and substitution may refer to one or other or both of process and content , depending upon one 's perspective on curriculum change and the epistemological and pedagogical assumptions underpinning it . |
| 2 | The second is that homology probably does n't matter that much . |
| 3 | The second is that teaching on the subject in engineering courses has not always prepared engineers adequately for this progression . |
| 4 | The second is that Severus apparently introduced the interpretation of a modal disposition in a will as a trust precisely in this context , of manumission of slaves . |
| 5 | The second is that investment is volatile and unpredictable . |
| 6 | The second is that IQ , as measured by conventional intelligence tests , does not seem a sufficient explanation of it ; even though it might be a necessary accompaniment — and indeed might help entirely to account for some other forms of high intellectual achievement . |
| 7 | The second is that Waqar and Wasim have not , as one might first assume , hollowed out the ball , coconut-style , with the aid of a Black and Decker drill . |
| 8 | The second is that coalition or minority government involves taking account of the views of others and even , perhaps , having to compromise . |
| 9 | The second is some sort of percentage rate of interest . |
| 10 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 11 | The second was that Article 3(1) of the Directive' the transferor 's rights and obligations arising from a contract of employment or from an employment relationship existing on the date of a transfer within the meaning of Article 1(1) shall , by reason of such transfer , be transferred to the transferee' did not require an employee who was opposed to the transfer to have his contract transferred with the business . |
| 12 | Batterbee and his team tested six hypotheses with unimpeachable rigour : the first was that Scotland 's lakes were naturally acid and had not changed ; the second was that acidification was slow and pre-industrial ; the third blamed changes in burning or grazing ; the fourth implicated just conifer planting , and the fifth , decreased agricultural liming ; only the sixth implicated acid deposition from the combustion of fossil fuels . |
| 13 | The second was that force could not and should not be used to maintain Communist authority in Eastern Europe . |