Example sentences of "[adj] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 2 | How high the second part of the hurdle should be pitched , suspicion or likelihood , will depend again on value judgments . |
| 3 | Er , he may be concerned but my Lord erm , there has been reference to the er the professional negligence and and my Lord there is a bit I have in court , I 'm afraid the second edition because the third edition which is the latest , was not available to me this morning , but there 's a paragraph in it and I want to refer your Lordship to it , I wonder if I might read it and er hand it up to your Lordship . |
| 4 | During my first round at the Masters I four-putted the second green and a member of the gallery shouted ‘ welcome to Augusta ’ . |
| 5 | It will be some time before I have the figures to show how serious the second recession has been — how many firms have closed , how many jobs have been irrevocably lost , and how the finances of the survivors have suffered . |
| 6 | Childbirth was no less magical the second time around with Prince Harry |
| 7 | It 's not quite so good the second time around , never mind the fourth or fifth . |
| 8 | Thus it rejected Owen 's bid , revolutionary in concept but illusory in fact , to appropriate all industry into a nationwide industrial democracy : and , by that rejection , but quite unaware that it had done so , left unimpeded the second stage of the Industrial Revolution , the stage that guaranteed that it too would be irreversible , that the continuance of a phenomenal increase in the production of wealth could occur . |
| 9 | You 're looking for high fliers and even car firms can go bust the second year . |
| 10 | ‘ Love 's more comf'table the second time around , ’ the song says . |
| 11 | Even for the full Welsh side to beat Australia — let alone the second string-would have seemed an outrageous dream a year ago in the wake of humiliating defeats at the hands of the world champions , 63–6 on tour Down Under , and 38–3 in the World Cup . |
| 12 | Indeed , you 've been afraid to hold up your end of a rockin' conversation , paralysed by the knowledge that you alone do not possess the second Squirrel Bait album — and worse , you do n't even know why you should possess any Squirrel Bait albums , let alone the second one . |
| 13 | Meredith endeavoured to explain that the play had been written long before the carnage of the First World War , let alone the Second . |
| 14 | But , then you do n't yo they 're not so important the second lot , as what we call , well you call them spares , we call them spare in the stables you see . |
| 15 | Full details of dates , screenings , directors talks and other special events will appear in the film and media festival programme — available the second week in April . |
| 16 | Newman was skip-reading the second page which , like the first , contained clause after clause . |
| 17 | That would usually be called an engine , and in a car the engine just burns petrol and produces the mechanical energy in the shaft which turns the wheels , so the course is learning about the nature of mechanical forces and energy , thermal forces and energy and of the conversion of one form of energy to another , and in the process you learn that there are fundamental scientific laws — in particular the second law of thermo-dynamics — which says that you ca n't necessarily go form energy in one form with a hundred percent efficiency to getting it out in another form , so this limitation on your ability to convert from one form into another without waste in fact comes into many , many processes and every day processes . |
| 18 | If marriage really is more harmonious the second time around , England should be celebrating the return of the urn sometime next July . |
| 19 | Persian The second of Ashton 's oriental ballets was La Féri ( music by Dukas ) for |