Example sentences of "[noun] at second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moin soon played across Lewis and was taken by Hick at second slip , and then Mallender came back and had Waqar caught by the same fieldsman . |
| 2 | Headingley 1976 and Gordon Greenidge at second slip practises for the high jump . |
| 3 | To maintain the equipment at second line requires quite extensive test equipment and facilities . |
| 4 | Because the control sample of people still at home at second assessment was so small , no conclusions are possible . |
| 5 | Speakers of less originality , and writers too , pick up these phrases at second hand and use them until their first fire and punch are worn away . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , former Shildon manager Tommy Smith has been appointed to the managerial team at Second Division Billingham Town . |
| 7 | Much business took place at second hand , and by delegates , and the curia was not anxious to investigate every case on the spot . |
| 8 | You may feed safer watching nature at second hand on the television , and would find it hard to rough it in an uncharted forest . |
| 9 | Isobel seemed to like danger at second hand , he thought , and wondered again why she should come . |
| 10 | The Pakistan team lines up ‘ like some firing-squad ’ after the umpires decided that a ‘ catch ’ offered by Gower to Inzamam ( left ) off Waqar Younis had not carried to the fielder at second slip |
| 11 | STEVE WILLIAMS , the 34-year-old former England midfield player , has been suspended for two weeks without pay and stripped of his title as assistant manager following a bust-up with manager Alan Ball at Second Division Exeter City . |
| 12 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 13 | The ruling couple preferred , however , to receive RFE 's news at second hand from a minion , who all too often had the thankless task of retailing the unflattering commentary or the contents of a critical letter smuggled out to the Munich-based radio station by one of their subjects . |
| 14 | Fine start at Second Alliance |
| 15 | For Bernstein , this is to experience the music at second hand ; he wants us to live through the emotional upheaval rather than be merely aware of its implications . |
| 16 | The ‘ believer at second hand ’ , the one who believes through having heard the witness of those who believed ‘ at first hand ’ , i.e. the original disciples , must make the same leap of faith as they did to break through Jesus ' incognito : they have no advantage over him of the kind that a purely historical approach to Jesus might suggest . |
| 17 | Originally three storeys , Fitch Benoy inserted an extra mezzanine at second floor level and introduced and extra studio floor in the former roof-void area . |
| 18 | The two action sample people who , despite their commitment to caring , and the existence of the Home Support Project , could not state an unequivocal preference for home care at second interview were evidently under considerable pressure , as the following excerpts from their interviews show . |
| 19 | And if an adult , speaking to a child — or to anyone — were to introduce the quoted words of a third person ( 'dialogue at second hand' ) it would be very unusual for the source not to be identified . |
| 20 | He thought that it would be nice if the BBC could be present at the press conference in their own right instead of getting a ‘ home grown ’ story at second hand , and so he contacted Richard Cookson , a close friend and retired Professor of Chemistry at Southampton University , whose son Clive was science correspondent with the BBC Radio . |
| 21 | In Tables 6.2 and 6.3 the differences between the two groups are all in the expected direction , with the scale of the difference between the less costly and more costly being very similar for both variables ; some of the differences are large enough to be statistically significant , for example that between those who lived with others or alone in Newham at second assessment ( significant at the one per cent level ) . |
| 22 | Scarlet the heroine has a therapist , for example , but we never actually meet the therapist and , as a result , only engage with this segment of her experience at second hand . |
| 23 | They might well have had experience at second hand of Russian trade goods , and thus have resolved to pay tribute to obtain these benefits . |
| 24 | Gary Callander , the former Scotland hooker , is in cracking form again and , with John Jeffrey staying down and grafting at second row , they took particular encouragement from their scrummaging in an 18-29 defeat by the powerhouse Heriot 's . |
| 25 | The trouble is that having er agreed to a er more flexible approach to the size of the police authority , the Government has not taken the opportunity despite many effective speeches from the Conservative benches at second reading to er ret to return to the tripartite system of policing in this country which was er the e the essential element of the nineteen sixty four Act which is now in effect being replaced . |
| 26 | who 's probably the orthodox first at position a yard or two behind Jack Russell and Gooch is probably a yard in front of Jack Russell at second slip and Lewis a foot or two up on him at third . |
| 27 | Manchester United stayed on course for a League and Rumbelows Cup double with a high-quality away-leg performance in the semi-final at second division Middlesbrough . |