Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macready raised his stick , cruel mouth curving like a second scar , and a foot-long blade sprang out . |
| 2 | In the remaining seats , the candidates who got more than an eighth of the total vote go to a second ballot . |
| 3 | What they have in mind here is the common situation that , while hunting , the quarry is first wounded by one hunter 's spear but ultimately brought down by another spear thrown by a second huntsman . |
| 4 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 5 | The disappointment Haslam inevitably felt at being let down in this way led to a second turning point in his career and one of those ‘ negative accidents ’ that ultimately proved to have a positive outcome . |
| 6 | In this a weak input which can not sustain LTF in its own right may be encouraged to do so if combined with a strong stimulus arriving from a second pathway . |
| 7 | Washington 's key economic gauge faltered for a second month in September . |
| 8 | As this encoded beam passes through a second optoelectronic array , the various stages of the algorithm are executed . |
| 9 | As this encoded beam passes through a second optoelectronic array , the various stages of the algorithm are executed . |
| 10 | In big years , Aube wines may also possess too much alcohol to allow for a second fermentation and effect the correct balance . |
| 11 | A similar pattern emerged from a second kind of monitoring — rhyme monitoring — in which subjects were given an instruction like Press the button whenever you hear a word rhyming with ‘ bread ’ . |
| 12 | CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry . |
| 13 | MR Ladislav Adamec , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , threatened to quit last night , as hard bargaining continued for a second day with the opposition over the shape of the new government . |
| 14 | So paragraphing may present some bilingual writers working in a second language with greater difficulties than writers whose experience is confined to the language and culture in which they are writing . |
| 15 | In 1899 Watson came on a second tour and this time went to the far west . |
| 16 | Quaint Irish rules allow for a second bite of the £50,000 cherry , but there were no squawks from Melody 's English owners . |
| 17 | Example 2 The court makes a first interim order for one week followed by a second interim order also for one week . |
| 18 | From around 785 to 814 Charles entered into a second stage of his expansion and conquests . |
| 19 | He said a petition containing 500 names over 95pc of households in the village had been sent to the Welsh Office calling for a second public meeting . |
| 20 | For example initial expenditure by both partners could be on a first phase of access and servicing , with the grant receivable by virtue of that expenditure reinvested in a second phase , and so one . |
| 21 | The putative kinase domain of atk does not , however , have the equivalent residue corresponding to a second auto-regulatory site at Tyr527 found in many cellular src proteins . |
| 22 | Next Brook asked for a second volunteer . |