Example sentences of "[to-vb] a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her looks were sufficiently unusual to attract a second glance in spite of an aloof and rather intimidating expression which she cultivated as a form of defence against being the recipient of too much male attention . |
| 2 | The common aim is to found a Second Republic and to reduce or eliminate the power of the political cliques who have held sway since the fall of fascism . |
| 3 | Achillea " Moonshine " has acid-yellow flowers which air-dry beautifully — cut the first crop when mature to encourage a second flowering . |
| 4 | II ) it now seems reasonable to postulate a second group of integral affinities for the region . |
| 5 | But whilst the law and order debate ebbs and flows over the political terrain , there is a strategic need to establish a second front where radical criminology takes on corporate crimes and crimes of other powerful institutions and privileged people . |
| 6 | The fact that a vote for Margaret was the only way to secure a second ballot was also turned to advantage . |
| 7 | The worst scenario of all is one in which no party feels confident of forming a government , leaving the Queen with no alternative but to grant a second dissolution . |
| 8 | to supervise a second rinse |
| 9 | France had been hoping for a Kinnock victory , to provide a second socialist power in one of the leading EC countries to act as an ally for President Mitterrand at summit talks . |
| 10 | It might be appropriate to ask the Mental Health Act Commission to provide a second opinion on such patients at the end of their first three months with the power to extend the time for free treatment . |
| 11 | ‘ We had planned to run a single GM-backed Astra this year for Luis Climent but when Bardolet became available it was decided to provide a second car for him supported by an outside sponsor , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 12 | To find a second point on the unemployment-income curve , let the rate of national income rise to OY 1 . |
| 13 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The last time we saw you , ’ Prue says to him , as she ladles the haricots around his gigot , ‘ you were just desperately trying to find a second line to go after ‘ Goe , and catch a falling starre . ’ |
| 15 | In another series of cases the Court has condemned national laws which require undertakings which are licensed to carry out particular activities in one member state having to obtain a second licence to provide the same services in another member state where the licensing requirements in the first member state adequately safeguard all necessary requirements for the protection of the public interest . |
| 16 | In such cases , a phone call should be made to the firm and if any doubt still remains , it may be appropriate to obtain a second opinion by a known reliable firm . |
| 17 | In view of the high cost of property , the extent of the risk to a buyer if the survey report was negligent , the fact that the parties were of unequal bargaining power , the relatively low risk to the surveyor , and the fact that the parties would know that the buyer would be unlikely to obtain a second survey report , the clause was held to be unreasonable . |
| 18 | He said the secret was to hide a second box . |
| 19 | The agency has plans to launch a second craft in April 1994 , at about the time that the first satellite reaches the end of its operational life . |
| 20 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 21 | Its success in reaching what were , by East African standards , very healthy circulation figures encouraged the Public Relations Department to launch a second paper in 1951 . |
| 22 | SCOTTISH Amicable is to launch a second Capital Guarantee Bond , following the success of the first one which took in £22.5 million following its launch last October . |
| 23 | The question is : can they get it to work a second time ? |
| 24 | Once this has been done , it is hoped to set a second study in motion to consider the possibility of using expert systems to guide the personnel who do the actual licensing through the maze of rules and regulations that they have to consider . |
| 25 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the society said : ‘ To receive a Fellowship is a rare honour and to receive a second Fellowship is a rare achievement . ’ |
| 27 | It was intended to give legal sanction to regulations introduced in November 1990 , under which a doctor intending to perform euthanasia was obliged to consult a second doctor and to inform the coroner after the patient 's death . |
| 28 | George Oldham became the first chairman of any region to serve a second term of office . |
| 29 | By 1922 the single school-room was no longer adequate to meet the needs of the local school population , so the full width of the building was extended eastwards under a pair of pitched roofs to create a second classroom , head-teacher 's room and internal side entrance lobby replacing the demolished attached porch ( Plate 32 ) . |
| 30 | Never a company to rest on its laurels , Yamaha has refined the performance of its influential AWM synthesis to create a second generation , AWM2 tone generation system , the driving force behind the new SY85 synthesizer . |