Example sentences of "be [verb] for the second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was devastated when he discovered his premises had been attacked for the second time . |
| 2 | OUSTED councillor Ralph Knight has been snubbed for the second time in two months by members of his own party , it was revealed last night . |
| 3 | A RECORD entry of 129 bulls and 22 breeding females have been entered for the second Autumn Multi-breed Show and Sale of Pedigree Beef Cattle beef cattle , on the Royal Welsh Showground , Builth Wells , on November 13 . |
| 4 | A PLAN to build executive-style houses in an upmarket suburb of Middlesbrough has been refused for the second time . |
| 5 | Can you say why the intervention must be stopped for the second baseline ? |
| 6 | Mr Clarke said last night that the pay of five million workers , ranging from teachers to nurses and civil servants , would be curbed for the second year in a row . |
| 7 | Banks ' long-term prime-lending rate is about to be raised for the second month in a row , to 5.4% ( up from 4.9% two months ago ) , which will trigger a similar increase in mortgage rates . |
| 8 | The way was thus cleared for the names of Hurd and her eventual successor , Major , to be entered for the second ballot against Heseltine . |
| 9 | They would be routed for the second time in their existence , and their slaves — the people — would be set free and return to fight with God against them ! |
| 10 | Until last year , Longchamp was the only place to be , but now Phoenix Park in Dublin , where the Cartier Million will be staged for the second time tomorrow , provides a tempting alternative . |
| 11 | Fresh Art , the only fair to show the work of British graduates and post-graduates , will be held for the second time at the Business Design Centre , Upper Street , Islington , London N1 from 17 July to 1 August . |
| 12 | WITH just the smallest of the 23 starters in the Whitbread Round the World Race , the 51-foot La Poste , due last into Punta del Este , Uruguay , at midnight tonight , crews are preparing for the second leg , writes Stuart Alexander . |
| 13 | Five target fish were nominated for the second day as the anglers struggled to overcome persistent torrential rain and buffeting winds . |
| 14 | Both awards were won for the second year in succession . |
| 15 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 16 | Movement of the system thus results in a number of parallel images being produced for the second model at each event . |
| 17 | In one area houses were flooded for the second time in six weeks , and residents are demanding the council take action to provide adequate drainage . |
| 18 | Microsoft Corp 's NT is now being touted for the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 19 | The opening piece , Respighi 's symphonic poem Fountains of Rome , was subtly characterised and sensuously played , but the real fireworks were reserved for the second half of the concert . |
| 20 | The 58th British Services International Alpine Ski Championships were held for the second year running in Megève . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh no , not again , ’ remarks an attractive blonde whose car is stopped for the second ti me in a day . |
| 22 | A similar procedure is adopted for the second objective , imposing the constraint that it should not drop below whichever is the smaller of its optimal value and its goal . |
| 23 | Menlo Park California-based Network General Corp is offering another system for its Sniffer Network Analyser : a new version will run on the Toshiba Corp T6400/DX2 colour portable running at 50MHz ; currently the new implementation supports only Ethernet , but Token Ring support is promised for the second quarter ; the move looks as if it has been caused by the chronic shortage of the Compaq Computer Corp machines that form the basis for the existing Sniffer systems . |
| 24 | Very shortly the Court of Appeal is to hear for the second time the cases of James Robinson , Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey , found guilty in November 1979 of the murder in 1978 of Carl Bridgewater , the newspaper boy , in Staffordshire . |
| 25 | The full release of Data Connection 's SNAP-APPN is set for the second quarter of the year . |
| 26 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 27 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 28 | JANSHER KHAN narrowly avoided a ban but was fined for the second time in six weeks by the International Squash Players Association yesterday — and lost ranking points which may cost him his world No.1 spot . |
| 29 | North-East champion Brian Rushworth finished a best-ever 11th in the senior men 's race , which was won for the second time by Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres gold medallist Eamonn Martin , of Basildon . |
| 30 | The club , in Normanby Road , and its stand have been the scene of a series of unexplained fires , the latest being last Friday when the stand was gutted for the second time . |