Example sentences of "a [num ord] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second and less well-known treaty gives the US the right to defend the canal 's neutrality . |
| 2 | A second and more serious objection to this definition concerns the impossibility of completeness in another direction . |
| 3 | A second and more serious line of criticism is that the empress 's claims to real enlightenment and concern for the welfare of her subjects are shown to be a hollow pretence by the intensification and geographical extension of serfdom in Russia during her reign . |
| 4 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 5 | In the Outer Hebrides there is , however , a second and more urgent suggestion of deceit , as this poisonous plant looks very much like water-cress , and therefore one could be deceived into eating it , with disastrous results . |
| 6 | A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay . |
| 7 | Sales and profit growth ( up by 17% and 34% respectively ) remain perfectly respectable on a second and more detailed viewing — indeed , the increase in sales was commendable in a very tough year for trade publishers — even if the operating margin of 6.8% and pretax margin of 1.9% were well below the promise of 10% held out when the company was launched in the optimistic mid-80s . |
| 8 | There is a second and more important way in which corporate organizations and wealthy individuals use financial muscle to weaken electoral competition , namely , their ownership and control of the mass media . |
| 9 | A fourth and less myopic perspective is one which deals with the functions of a service for the wider welfare system or for society as a whole . |
| 10 | A fourth and very important influence on the rate of recorded crime is the effect of changes in the law , which may lead to an alteration in the definition of what is or is not a crime . |
| 11 | Jim received a first and thoroughly well-merited Testimonial in November 1980 , cruised past Terry Long 's previous club record of 442 League appearances in April 1985 and proceeded to notch up his 500th League game for us at Birmingham on 18 October 1986 , his 550th League match at Hull City on 19 December 1987 and his 650th overall ( ie : including major Cup ties ) upon the occasion of Oldham Athletic 's visit to Selhurst Park on 5 March 1988 . |
| 12 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |
| 13 | The diurnal raptors and small mammalian carnivores form a third and most extreme group ( Fig. 3.10 ) . |
| 14 | A third and more serious problem with ( 6.9 ) is that it is not operational because it involves expectations of dividend payments into the infinite future . |
| 15 | Independence of course demands economic means : and this brings us to a last and equally basic issue . |