Example sentences of "second [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First and foremost we have to consider the immediate social contexts in which the statements are made : in one case an intervention in a youth project on a council estate dominated by the particular group of boys being interviewed ; in the second case a course run for police officers who had special responsibility for training cadets in the art of ‘ good community relations ’ . |
| 2 | In the second case a woman asking questions about her leg ulcer was told , ‘ Look , dear , you go away and make up your mind what you want done , and then we might be able to help you . ’ |
| 3 | In the second case a woman of 27 is seeking damages for contracting lymphoma in 1988 , the treatment for which has left her permanently disabled and sterile ; her father worked as a fitter at Sellafield for more than 20 years . |
| 4 | In the second case a manager is appointed with authority , delegated by top management , to control what happens to the project in all functional departments , and to whom functional department managers are required to provide an adequate service . |
| 5 | In one of the political meetings at the second branch a councillor had voiced typically conservative views on education , stressing the need to encourage the brightest and discourage bad behaviour by the cane . |
| 6 | Captain Ally McKay grabbed a try in the first half and in the second half a brace of tries from his wing forward partner Watson secured the winning margin . |
| 7 | Leading from a Neil Vasey goal at the break , Aycliffe found Usworth always dangerous until in a five-minute spell midway through the second period a mix-up in the home defence allowed Stuart Howson in to score with Kevin Dinning notching their third shortly afterwards . |
| 8 | John Surtees kept the British flag flying in 1964 , before Clark won his second title a year later . |
| 9 | During the second night a headache forced me to stop reading . |
| 10 | ( x , y ) denotes that the first person gets a quantity x and the second person a quantity y For each of the following allocations say whether they are ( i ) efficient and ( ii ) equitable : ( a ) ( 10 , 0 ) ( b ) ( 7 , 2 ) ( c ) ( 5 , 5 ) ( d ) ( 3 , 6 ) ( e ) ( 0 , 10 ) . |
| 11 | KNOWSLEY UNITED have been handed a home draw against Nottinghamshire outfit Arnold Town when they open their FA Vase campaign in the second round a fortnight today . |
| 12 | The monetary system remained intact in Aethelred 's first reign and under Aelfwald , and in Aethelred 's second reign a coinage with a higher silver content was even introduced . |
| 13 | The second thing a fire does is to warm the house and make it inviting . |
| 14 | In the second century a variant of this theme appeared in the assumption made by writers in the orthodox tradition that on the essentials all Christians rightly believing are agreed : the cacophony of dissension is a characteristic either of heretics or of pagan philosophers . |
| 15 | For the second survey a sample of 1.7 million volumes was taken from a number of areas of the Library which were considered to be representative of the book collections as a whole . |
| 16 | LIVERPOOL 'S Mike Marsh last night looked ahead to another big European night at sold-out Anfield and declared : ‘ Even if the crowd does n't scare Spartak , it will lift us ! ’ second goal a year ago when Liverpool overhauled Auxerre 3-0 in the UEFA Cup . |
| 17 | Deposit first year second year a year later . |
| 18 | He was just back from giving the Second Channel a tour of the White House at night , something he often did , and with a proper historical reverence . |
| 19 | This is not the first or perhaps even the second time a Darkfall may have occurred here . |
| 20 | This is the second time a court has ruled that press coverage of a controversial case has prevented a fair trial . |
| 21 | just a couple of months afterwards , playing India in Trinidad with three spin bowlers in his team , he saw them reach 406 for 4 to win the match , only the second time a team had passed 400 runs to win a Test . |