Example sentences of "[adv] [art] second [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I board the plane feeling no pain , eat the evening meal and continue with the G&T theme , land in Gatwick and make the connection via the smoking area of the bar and another gulped Gordon 's , then pass on the second offered dinner but not the accompanying booze and quietly pass out somewhere over the West Midlands , to be woken by a dishy blonde with an impudent , dimpled smile and we 're here we 've landed we 've arrived , we 're on the stand at the airport and I 'd ask her what she 's doing later because I 'm drunk enough to not care when she says ‘ No ’ as she probably will , but I know I 'm too tired and besides my left eyelid 's stuck again and I suspect it makes me look a bit like Quasimodo , so I do n't say anything except , ‘ Uh , thanks , ’ which is cool or sad , I 'm not sure which . |
| 2 | Such as the Canton commune where down here in er Canton , perhaps the second major industrial city in China , the communists rose in revolt erm and attempted to establish erm a kind of red base in the city of Canton . |
| 3 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 4 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 5 | Biohome is a new sintered glass media which is to the best of our knowledge only the second available in the UK . |
| 6 | Our calculations took into account only the second primary invasive melanoma in each case of primary melanoma . |
| 7 | ‘ It was only the second long distance walk I 've tackled , and very different from the first . |
| 8 | The formation of the United Indian Malaysian party , only the second Malaysian Indian party after the MIC , was announced in June 1989 . |
| 9 | As only the second Asian MP in Parliament it is anyone 's guess how that issue will affect the voting this time in this traditionally ‘ conservative ’ area . |
| 10 | It will also be only the second significant merger the industry has yet seen . |
| 11 | On June 6th , only the second royal tram ride in Blackpool 's century of trams , took place when Princess Alice , Duchess of Gloucester rode from Starr Gate to North Pier on board car 40 . |
| 12 | The structures of related polyamides do not always lead to this neat arrangement of intermolecular bond formation ; for example the geometry of an extended nylon-7,7 chain allows the formation of only every second possible hydrogen bond when the chains are aligned and fully extended . |
| 13 | Thus the second major influence on behaviour is the reward , or payoff , as it is sometimes called , for acting in a certain way . |
| 14 | But there was always a second non-evangelical element in his political support which drew on the independent unionist populist tradition . |
| 15 | Before Titron was fully upright a second giant wave fell upon her . |
| 16 | In a new departure , EPLF gunboats attacked and set fire to a Polish freighter off the Eritrean Red Sea coast on Jan. 3 ; they seized the 30-strong crew and fired rockets to drive off a second Polish freighter which attempted to come to their aid . |
| 17 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 18 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 19 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 20 | The pressures can be linked to specific events — most obviously these French elections , but also the second Danish referendum on Maastricht on 18 May , and the vote(s) in the British parliament to ratify the treaty — and to the general pressures associated with the need to lower interest rates across Europe to bolster economic activity . |
| 21 | Roy Keane , Niall Quinn , Ray Houghton , Steve Staunton and Kevin Moran will all incur a one-match ban if they pick up a second yellow card tomorrow . |
| 22 | Brett of the extra-long floppy limbs churns out a second easy classic . |
| 23 | Even the second Carlist War in Spain ( 1872–6 ) was a much less widespread affair than the first one had been in the 1830s , and virtually confined to the Basque provinces . |
| 24 | He 'd be — what — in his fifties now if he 'd lived , a Deputy Secretary , perhaps even a Second Permanent Secretary . |
| 25 | He likes to print gossip occasionally , but the paper is n't a second Private Eye . |
| 26 | Throw the next top spit into the trench bottom , and then the second bottom spit on top . |
| 27 | In many Hemiptera the wings are held together in flight by various small hooks or folds along the wing.margins ( Weber , 1930 ) while in the Psocoptera the costa of the hind wing is held by a spiny or hooked process of the node where the second cubital vein of the fore wing reaches the margin . |
| 28 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with a sack-like disk covered with thickened skin or thin scales which often carry spinelets or granules ; radial shields variable in shape , either rib-like with only the distal ends not covered by scales or short with most of the plate visible ; the jaws distinctly longer than broad ; one or sometimes as many as three large blunt apical papillae flanked on each side by three to many oral papillae ; in most genera the second oral tentacle pore arising superficially or nearly so and the associated tentacle scales often forming a continuous series with the oral papillae ; the oral tentacle scales often spine-like and larger than the oral papillae , except in Ophiolimna where the second oral tentacle pore is obscured by a large opercular distal oral papillae ; nearly all genera with well developed elongated adoral shields and a large oral shield ; the tentacle pores of the arm mostly large and often with small spine-like tentacle scales although some genera with smaller pores armed with well developed tentacle scales ; the arm spines relatively short usually only slightly longer than one arm segment . |
| 29 | There are , of course , more fundamental issues at stake here than just a falling training rate — which is where the second working party takes over . |
| 30 | In the spring of 1648 , when the Second Civil War broke out in accordance with this plan , many of the principal officers of the Parliamentary Army , furious at the King 's conduct in deceiving them and plunging the nation into an unnecessary war , solemnly undertook ‘ to call Charles Stuart , that man of blood , to an account for that blood he had shed , and mischief he had done to his utmost , against the Lord 's cause and people in these poor nations ’ . |