Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 2 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 3 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 4 | Unlike the Labour Government , we will swiftly deliver a second bridge . |
| 5 | All you have to do is press the Ctrl or Alt key and while holding it down press the second key . |
| 6 | Most of these people have only seen a second half since the police closed the Oval club . |
| 7 | Lord Lane personally rejected the second appeal of the Birmingham Six in January 1988 saying , in words which returned to haunt him : ‘ As with many cases referred by the Home Secretary to the Court of Appeal , the longer the case has gone on , the more this court has been convinced that the jury was correct . ’ |
| 8 | Mogg had hailed her victory : ‘ Although Mrs Thatcher 's majority was not quite large enough to avoid a second ballot , the victory was clearly a decisive one . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've only got a second hand on my watch . |
| 10 | As 1992 draws to a close , the undisputed star of Cologne is gallery owner Karsten Greve , who has not only opened a second gallery in Rudolf Zwirner 's former space on Albertusstrasse 18 , but has expanded his premises at Wallrafplatz 3 to include the second and third floors of the building . |
| 11 | He was a scholar at both the King 's School , Canterbury ( 1903–7 ) , and Lincoln College , Oxford ( 1907–11 ) , although he only obtained a second class in modern history ( 1911 ) . |
| 12 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 13 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 14 | A charge will obviously deter a second financier from providing the company with funds where its charge would rank after a charge that the company has already created over its assets . |
| 15 | Patrick thanked her and sat down facing the second maid , Sarah . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , Gabby came in riding the second wave . |
| 17 | Because they 're almost there — unlike previous white soul or funk aspirants like Kevin Rowland or A Certain Ratio who fell so far shod of their ambitions they inadvertently created something different , these groups have , through graft and expense , come close , and so clog the second division of pop-soul . |
| 18 | I have heard of older people who will literally walk the second mile despite weary feet aching with bunions , in order to visit a good chiropodist . |
| 19 | The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning . |
| 20 | Even with Malcolm Kirkland dropping down to captain the second team , left-arm spin is likely to play a vital part in the team 's fortunes . |
| 21 | I worked a lot in one which I used to call D4 — basically taking the second string down to A and then sometimes taking the third string down to F sharp — open D. But sometimes keeping the third string tuned to G. I also used to tune to D minor sometimes and take the F sharp down to F , but sometimes keeping the E at the top so you 'd have a ninth . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps when we fondly remembered the second world war — and engaged in a massive collective oblivion about the causes and costs of that war . |
| 23 | Garling 's design was also placed first on Angell and Pownall 's and Burn 's War Department lists , although the first place they awarded to another Second Empire scheme on the Foreign Office list , was only awarded the second prize by the judges . |
| 24 | The government not only gave the second TV channel to the BBC but slapped the excess profits levy onto ITV . |
| 25 | In the honey bee those of the prothorax fuse to form a supraneural bridge , and the combined mesa and metathoracic endosternites together form a second bridge of a similar character . |
| 26 | Standing to paddle , the fishermen are extended by their reflections and appear to be walking on the water on wavering stilts , their long paddles a second leg . |
| 27 | But somehow Leconte pulled himself together to take the second set and the decider became a rout . |
| 28 | Joining Welch and Taylor was Lt Sanders who led a flight of four P–40s up through the clouds to attack six Japanese bombers , Sanders hit one aircraft while another of his men , Lt Sterling , closed on a two-seater , Sterling 's engine was hit and caught fire , but he carried on in pursuit , another Japanese closed in on his tail and the three flew on firing at each other , then Sanders joined in to attack the second Japanese , only Sanders survived this ordeal . |
| 29 | But Welshman Ian Woosnam only managed a second round 70 to leave him nine shots behind price on 141 after the two rounds . |
| 30 | The UK not only remained the second largest source , after the USA , for foreign direct investment , but increased in importance after 1979 when the first Thatcher government abandoned most controls on the foreign exchange of sterling currency . |