Example sentences of "[prep] a second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … and moreover the most gallant gentleman of the realm , and this went on until it resulted in a divorce , and after a second marriage , which was likewise unhappy , she entered the married estate for the third time with a common tar , with whom , though he abused her daily , she herself said that she lived in much greater content than in her first marriage . |
| 2 | By Easter term 1292 he was back in the Tower and his lands once more in the king 's hands , apparently after a second conviction . |
| 3 | After a second helping , Alice took Mungo into the lean-to . |
| 4 | After a second incident on Sept. 21 when depth charges were fired at an intruder in the Stockholm archipelago , Bildt claimed on Sept. 22 that Russian submarines had violated Sweden 's territorial waters and had been pursued , but this was denied by Russia on Sept. 23 . |
| 5 | Also pardoned was Clair E. George , a former executive within the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , who had been convicted on Dec. 9 on two felony charges of perjury and misleading Congress after a second trial [ for ending of first trial see p. 39043 ] . |
| 6 | After a second operation in January 1945 he nevertheless visited Washington in connection with the Far Eastern war and , although dying , he wrote a scientific paper for the sixtieth-birthday tribute to Niels Bohr . |
| 7 | In the Vale of Glamorgan , which the Tories won by 19 votes after a second recount , 64 overseas voters registered in time to vote . |
| 8 | This was not maintained after a second night , and after the third night without sleep subjects provided with these incentives could perform no better than those not provided with incentives . |
| 9 | Four other consultants did not reply even after a second letter and phone calls to their secretaries . |
| 10 | After a second beer , Dr Reid prepared to leave , explaining that he was going to the dispensary . |
| 11 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 12 | They 'd set his hand and cast it , and then after a second set of plates a week later they 'd broken off the cast and operated . |
| 13 | There followed a day of more mixed climbing and some grade V rock , and then , after a second bivouac , a tiring slog up a huge hanging glacier and an endless snow arête . |
| 14 | After a second teatime breakfast in a café , I set off without delay for Kenny 's Bookshop . |
| 15 | The two rode about the parish together , and after a second visit Mr Brown produced a planting plan and a bill for £73.10s . |
| 16 | Part of a town centre was sealed off and buildings evacuated after a second World War Mortar Bomb was discovered at a charity shop . |
| 17 | During the addition of user data , dangling cross-references , perhaps reflecting the order in which data is added , are flagged in the first pass and only after a second pass to re-check citations is the possibility of rejection considered . |
| 18 | Ian Baker-Finch returned a 68 and jumped into the lead after a second round 66 put him three strokes ahead of Nick Faldo , Lee Trevino and Ballesteros . |
| 19 | However , after a second round of US-PLO talks in Tunis on March 22 , 1989 , the PLO leadership expressed fears that the USA lacked a specific programme for resolving the Palestinian issue , and was playing for time to secure a halt to the intifada ( " uprising " ) . |
| 20 | The official results in these first multiparty local elections since the Second World War were finally announced on Aug. 13 , apparently after a second round of voting on Aug. 2 to decide close-run elections in 18 of Albania 's 42 municipalities and 97 of its 304 communes . |
| 21 | It 's no skin off my nose , she decided finally , after a second glass of punch . |
| 22 | After a second attempt on the Shahs life , in 1965 , he decided ( and the US embassy concurred ) that the Queen should have the power to become regent in the event of his death while their son was still minor . |
| 23 | It suffered so brutally from war and killing that even after a second time around , in ‘ 39 , after the havoc of Korea , the cut and thrust of Malaysia and Aden , the carnage of the Falklands and the bizarre media-encouraged sand-deaths in the Gulf — even after all that , the terrible word ‘ Gallipoli ’ is burned deep into the very fibre of every soul who was born in Bury , or who had family there . |
| 24 | Having hardly set foot on American soil , and with out a second thought , he boarded the next liner and sailed back . |
| 25 | Now Lawrence is seeking the opinion of a second specialist about his prospects for a full recovery . |
| 26 | Identification of a second PLC- β complementary DNA ( PLC- β2 ) in an HL-60 cell cDNA library prompted us to investigate the effect of purified G protein βγ subunits on the activities of PLC- β1 and PLC- β2 transiently expressed in cultured mammalian cells . |
| 27 | The consultation records ( described in Chapter 5 ) were put into a dBASE II database on a PC , and used as the basis for the construction of a second ORACLE database , CONSULT , which contained the following fields , one of which is common to THESES87 : |
| 28 | VERVE , currently touring as special guests of Spiritualized , headline London New Cross Venue on June 12 , prior to the release of a second single through Hut in late June , which will follow their Number One Indie debut ‘ All In The Mind ’ . |
| 29 | The completion of a second Soviet designed nuclear plant , under construction on the Danube , is now in question as it is being built in an area prone to earthquakes . |
| 30 | A further reshuffle on Nov. 8-10 , following the general election in October , included the appointment as Prime Minister of John Malecela , a former high commissioner to the UK , and of a second Minister without Portfolio , CCM secretary-general Horace Kolimba . |