Example sentences of "[adv] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Van Morrison , arguably the second most difficult white performer in rock history , wandered on in a suit to start improvising round a punchy version of the old Weavers hit , Good Night Irene . |
| 2 | THE IRB admitted five new members : Andorra ( a country playing in the FIRA second division ) , Chile ( arguably the second strongest nation in South America ) , Luxembourg , Hungary , and Latvia ( the first nation of the crumbling Soviet empire to join the Board ) . |
| 3 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 4 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |
| 5 | The All Blacks won a sterner Third Test against the World side , almost went base-over-apex in the First Test against Ireland , then came back so powerfully the Second Test was a 59–6 mis-match . |
| 6 | Right the second one , do you want to have a look at the second one ? |
| 7 | Luckily the second tags on the babies ' arms were correct and van driver Derek , who had been present at the birth , was positive Daniel was his baby . |
| 8 | If it is run twice on similar data , it will probably work better the second time . |
| 9 | All three of these approaches , and especially the second and third , do have their validity . |
| 10 | From 1953 to 1964 we built up that factory into perhaps the second largest of its kind in the world and certainly the largest and best in Europe . |
| 11 | True , the first and perhaps the second blackmail payments had come in before he was obliged to pay for his teeth at the beginning of June , but he had blithely paid two hundred and fifty for them in cash when the demand came . |
| 12 | As I said before , the Handbook of Human Intelligence is excellent as far as it goes , but it certainly does not go far enough ; perhaps the second edition will improve on this sad state of affairs ! |
| 13 | By the way , how did Pam get to know perhaps the second most powerful man on earth ? |
| 14 | Such as the Canton commune where down here in er Canton , perhaps the second major industrial city in China , the communists rose in revolt erm and attempted to establish erm a kind of red base in the city of Canton . |
| 15 | One of the most intriguing of evolutionary clues is the close chemical similarity between many hormones and the substances that function within the nervous system as neurotransmitters , suggesting that perhaps the second group , the neurotransmitters , may have developed evolutionarily from the first . |
| 16 | In 1980 , Lord Denning , the then Master of the Rolls perhaps the second most powerful judicial position — delivered the Richard Dimbleby lecture . |
| 17 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 18 | It 's inserted into the poem in two ways : first the devils are identified with the pagan gods — they are introduced , indeed , with a great fanfare in the first book and given all sorts of classical erm and oriental names , and Milton explains to us that of course it was the devils themselves who managed to disperse this tradition that that 's who they really were ; and second , and though less central and less impressive in its poetic results , is perhaps the second device which is more interesting when we think of the poem in terms of Milton 's personal involvement . |
| 19 | All these references , but most obviously the second and especially the third , are potentially sociological , but they involve very different kinds of analysis from the tracing of direct relations of content or of form . |
| 20 | So the second thought might be : why not integrate fully ? |
| 21 | One finger , one thumb , keep moving This song builds up with the appropriate actions so the second verse is : ‘ One finger one thumb one arm keep moving . |
| 22 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |
| 23 | So the second subject melody in the first movement is faster than usual , but with easy rubato it never sounds rushed ; songful rather . |
| 24 | So the second morning we all went out again only this time wearing radio mikes as well . |
| 25 | After the first game the majority of the players had become accustomed to the range and accuracy of the paintball markers so the second game was much more exciting . |
| 26 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |
| 27 | So the second task of essay-writing — arguing a case — is important . |
| 28 | So the second pulse then , is mu it evokes a much weaker current than the first pulse did . |
| 29 | Yes my Lord er as soon as we went to the main bedroom which was the back bedroom at the same time as as that bedroom door opened , so the second team consisting of er P C P C would have gone into the second smaller bedroom and at the same time as we went in er P C and P C job er was to cover our backs in case of anybody in er the kitchen or the living area , the living room area . |
| 30 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |