Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little said : ‘ Middlesbrough are certainly one of the best Second Division sides . |
| 2 | Instead , they must now battle back from a 2-1 deficit after he punched the Glasgow club 's equaliser into his own net in the first leg of the all-British second round tie . |
| 3 | If a strong focusing preference is imposed in either direction between the monkey and the banana then the wrong referent will be obtained for one of the alternative second sentences . |
| 4 | His new wife was Beatrice of Burgundy , and the marriage was part of the complex Second Plan to strengthen imperial power . |
| 5 | The barman brought over their hot toddies and Roy was glad of the few seconds ' reprieve . |
| 6 | As he took it their fingers met , invoking so vivid a memory of the few seconds she had spent in his arms that she jerked away , spilling coffee into the saucer . |
| 7 | But they lost several of the forty seconds through sheer surprise , then they had a technical problem . |
| 8 | I think that the Minister has set a record in the House by making what was probably one of the longest Second Reading speeches for one of the shortest Bills . |
| 9 | just pinch her hand , give her a firm handshake because you 've got about ninety seconds in which to make your first impression and of the ninety seconds about ninety five percent of that time is made through visual images and that can be your dress sense , the way you carry yourself , present yourself , erm body language , do n't invade his personal space , only I think about erm I think about twelve , twelve seconds off of ninety seconds , or there thereabouts is spent on what you say . |
| 10 | This scrutinisation takes all of a split second . |
| 11 | The individual duration of one man 's life spans just a fraction of a cosmic second in these dense , material vibrations . |
| 12 | Designed to rival warm hatch cars like the Citroen ZX Furio or Nissan Sunny SR , the unit is capable of a 8. second 0–60 mph sprint . |
| 13 | In flow cytometry , DNA aneuploidy is defined by the presence of a distinct second G /G 1 peak . |
| 14 | Hopes here of a good second , at the very least … |
| 15 | And , for the slenderest sliver of a human second , wish I were just any other ordinary shortlife mortal lesbian on that dancefloor … |
| 16 | Furuseth 's first-run lead of a full second looked unassailable save for major error . |
| 17 | He had been scared then but it had been short-lived : terror lasting a matter of a few seconds , a minute at most . |
| 18 | This had never happened to her before , and she was dumbfounded that , in the course of a few seconds , her life could change so much . |
| 19 | I still remember the dirty liquid in my school test tube suddenly turning a brilliant turquoise , then shocking pink and then back to grey all in the space of a few seconds . |
| 20 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 21 | He had accused , judged , and branded her all in the space of a few seconds . |