Example sentences of "second [adv] important [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , American firms are reluctant to buy from the Japanese because , as one executive put it , ’ we will never be any more than their second most important customer ’ . |
| 2 | France was cited by Voronin as being the Soviet economy 's second most important investor after West Germany and in 1989 over 30 Soviet-French enterprises were set up . |
| 3 | McKee ( 1987 ) reports that siblings of unemployed men were the second most important category ( after parents ) to give assistance . |
| 4 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Jan. 30 reported that figures for the first nine months of 1991 showed Japan to be Vietnam 's second most important trading partner , after Singapore . |
| 5 | With those words from the Leader of the House the Tory MP for Northampton South became the second most important person in the House of Commons behind new Speaker Betty Boothroyd . |
| 6 | With those words from the Leader of the House the Tory MP for Northampton South became the second most important person in the House of Commons behind new Speaker Betty Boothroyd . |
| 7 | The second most important medium is commercial television , which has consistently maintained about 25% of the total . |
| 8 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 9 | Sound , too , possibly the second most important sense to man , covers a range far greater than that which we can hear . |
| 10 | The company 's vice-president , Horst Nasko , said that , before merger , Nixdorf was the second most important manufacturer in the country as regards volume sales . |
| 11 | The company 's vice-president , Horst Nasko , said that , before merger , Nixdorf was the second most important manufacturer in the country as regards volume sales . |
| 12 | In 1563 it had no more than 1,000 to 1,200 inhabitants , but it was still the second most important town in Derbyshire . |
| 13 | It shows that for those people without work and looking for a job , the ending of a temporary job was the second most important reason for having left their last employment . |
| 14 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 15 | But Mr Lafontaine , standard-bearer of the up-and-coming generation , and the second most important figure after Mr Vogel on the committee drafting the party programme for the next decade , has certainly not had things all his own way . |
| 16 | Henderson drew a sharp contrast with the years after 1945 when Britain was still a major and respected force in world affairs , the dominant power in the Middle East down to the time of Suez , the second most important power in the Far East at least down to the 1954 Geneva Conference . |
| 17 | The second most important power which came with the ownership of the Golden Share was the right of veto over the hiring and firing of the editor . |
| 18 | The course also provides an opportunity to study Japanese , the language of the second most important economy in the world . |
| 19 | The rubber industry was badly affected by the depression of the 1930s , but its position as the second most important export was not threatened . |
| 20 | ANGOLA 'S government appeared on the verge of military collapse yesterday as the Unita rebel movement was reported to have captured the country 's second most important city . |
| 21 | His canonisation in 1262 gave the cathedral the second most important shrine in the south-east after Becket 's at Canterbury . |
| 22 | The Lombardy League had polled 19 per cent of the vote in local elections throughout Lombardy in May 1990 , becoming the second most important party in the region [ see pp. 37468-69 ] . |
| 23 | France remains the second most important market with the United States again third . |
| 24 | This accounted for 13 per cent of total exports , making France Scotland 's second most important market after Germany . |
| 25 | Kendal had long been the second most important wool town in the country : Carlisle was the biggest town in the Border Marches . |
| 26 | The new report also casts doubt on the importance of methane , usually cited as the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide . |
| 27 | The most significant item taken was ‘ The White Duck ’ by Jean-Baptiste Oudry , the second most important picture in the Chomondeley collection after the Holbein , with a value probably in the region of £3–5 million . |
| 28 | The ever-popular shire horse entry has an increased turnout of 140 , making the show the second most important shop window for the one-time farm workhorse . |
| 29 | In conclusion , it could be that the problems have been exaggerated , and indeed one study of second homes in the southwest of England , the second most important area after Wales , concluded ( South West Economic Planning Council , 1975 , vii ) that : ‘ second homes do not pose a problem that is widespread in the region nor are they likely to do so ’ . |
| 30 | For the second most important place in the Government , that of Foreign Secretary , he initially chose J. H. Thomas , a man of coarse speech and coarser wit who had demonstrated his administrative talents in directing a succession of railway strikes . |