Example sentences of "the second [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | did I bring you the second of that stupid one down ? |
| 2 | The club 's pivot was the drama : its master was Leo Lloyd — the second of those men who were to promote the career of so many boys and girls from the Afan valley . |
| 3 | Which brings up the second of those two Greek imbalances — the potentially fatal one . |
| 4 | It is only necessary to refer to the second of those cases which were decisions of this court , because in the judgments in the second of those cases , reference is made back to Brown v. Draper . |
| 5 | It is only necessary to refer to the second of those cases which were decisions of this court , because in the judgments in the second of those cases , reference is made back to Brown v. Draper . |
| 6 | The other point is that , while I have distinguished between the culture of the academic community and the cultural dimension in the student 's educational experience ( and this book is mainly about the second of those ) , there has to be a strong connection between them . |
| 7 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 8 | As for the second of those preconditions , whether the act done at the request of the promisor raises an implication of promised remuneration or other return is simply one of the construction of the words of the contract in the circumstances of its making . ’ |
| 9 | At the second of these meetings Attlee stressed that the strategic arguments about the Middle East were not valid because no country would be willing to grant bases for military action , and all Britain would achieve would be to pose a needless and pointless threat to the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | The second of these aspects has emerged only relatively recently in the published literature on the postwar Labour government , but it is now a commonplace , certainly among Imperial and colonial historians . |
| 11 | On the second of these , the captain , Leslie Ames , was injured for much of the time and Worrell was appointed his deputy . |
| 12 | The second of these questions is discussed in Chapter 9 ; the first is discussed now . |
| 13 | The Lord will take care of the second of these — opportunities will be found . |
| 14 | Beveridge 's Report was based on three guiding principles : the second of these was that : |
| 15 | In the second of these houses , next to a six foot wide snicket which led to Paynes Hill , lived the Burden family consisting , if memory serves , of father , mother and four or five children . |
| 16 | In the present section , the second of these will be described , and the preservation of small mammal bone in recent caves will be discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 17 | The second of these equations immediately implies that there exists a function Φ such that . |
| 18 | Both linguistic and legal grounds make the second of these hypotheses the more plausible : the response seems to be tailored ( drastically ) to fit the preceding enquiry , in which only subsequent debts are considered ; there is no reason why this trust clause should be thought invalid , as other texts confirm . |
| 19 | It is simpler to begin with the second of these questions . |
| 20 | The second of these cases raises no questions of interest , since the trust has come to an end and the beneficiary is owner absolutely . |
| 21 | After the second of these excursions he came back to Marian 's side with : ‘ Is it not time that we took a look into this sack ? ’ |
| 22 | The pope laid special and dramatic emphasis on the second of these anathemas , saying that it was intolerable that hands which touched the flesh of Christ in the Eucharist , should suffer the indignity and contamination of being subordinated to hands made bloody by daily violence and bloodshed . |
| 23 | With respect to the second of these issues , Peirce holds that it is rational to suppose that there is , in any particular case , an affinity between our sense of plausibility and the nature of reality . |
| 24 | Jean Bevan , the second of these two , had a middle-class previous occupation nursing — but also lived in a working-class area . |
| 25 | The task for us is the second of these — the presentation of the ‘ inside ’ social world of the football fan and uncontrollable schoolchild . |
| 26 | The second of these choices was the one that most feminists adopted , and as a result the next decade was marked by an increasing self-confidence on the part of feminists about their place in philosophy . |
| 27 | Elisabeth Leonskaja opts for the second of these views in her performance of No. 1 , and the deliberate- sounding first movement that results is not altogether convincing . |
| 28 | She makes a decent enough job of the second of these , but her playing is not always fully idiomatic . |
| 29 | The second of these is thus the leading submatrix of |
| 30 | A typical instance of the second of these rules is : |