Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] second [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave pregnant mice a dilute solution of alcohol by mouth , and again , fertilised eggs exposed to alcohol while in the process of completing the second meiotic division show an incidence of aneuploidy , varying with dose , of up to 20 per cent ( Nature , vol 302 , p 258 ) . |
| 2 | The CPCz did better than expected , becoming the second largest force in the Federal Assembly and in the Czech National Council . |
| 3 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 4 | Some people have moved out of towns to live in the countryside , sometimes adopting a second part-time job in the rural area , while many inhabitants of rural areas have been able to obtain jobs in towns . |
| 5 | The USSR also began developing a second major naval support complex at the port of Mersa Matruh . |
| 6 | Mr Vassiliou , 61 , seeking a second five-year term , helped to draw up the formula as a basis for negotiation which would bring down the dividing ‘ green line ’ . |
| 7 | The Tokyo stock exchange fell more than 650 points in January , representing the largest one-day fall since the October 1987 world stock market crash [ see pp. 35740-42 ] , and tumbled further throughout February , plummeting by 4.5 per cent ( 1,569 points ) on Feb. 26 , marking the second largest one-day fall . |
| 8 | SunSoft plans on making the official announcement on March 29 at the beginning of the hoop-la surrounding the Second Annual Solaris Developers Conference in California . |
| 9 | Adding a second VME-64 bus provides up to 40Mbps additional input-output capacity . |
| 10 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 11 | The company , 86 p.c. -owned by family interests of chairman Garry Weston , also chairman of Sunblest baking giant Associated British Foods , is changing its year-end to July and paying a second interim dividend of 86p , compared with last year 's final of 84p . |
| 12 | One MP , Tewfiq Assaf ( Druze member of the ‘ National Struggle Front ’ from Aley ) is demanding a second parliamentary chamber in Lebanon to extend political power to the Druze — a Druze , he maintains , should be the speaker of this new parliamentary chamber . |
| 13 | Commenting on the report , the Financial Times remarked that these sectors are identified as dominating the thrust towards a post-industrial society , and as : ‘ spearheading the second industrial revolution , and settling employment trends , such as part-time working , job sharing and decentralisation ’ ( Financial Times , 5 February , 1987 ) . |
| 14 | The key to the formation of the first National Government lies in the parliamentary arithmetic facing the second Labour government as it sought to implement its programme of economies in August 1931 . |
| 15 | At least half the fund 's assets could end up going to the Treasury — a move which pensioners are calling the second Great Train Robbery . |
| 16 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 17 | Cleveland 's Districts suffered even more from the vagaries of the system , experiencing the second largest increase ( 8.9 per cent ) , followed by the largest decrease ( -13.2 per cent ) and then the largest increase ( 20.8 per cent ) . |
| 18 | Dealers are worried that a minority government , which might have to consider seeking a firmer mandate by calling a second general election later in the year , would be hard pressed to keep sterling within its exchange rate mechanism bands during a period of continuing uncertainty . |
| 19 | Installing a second hard disk |
| 20 | However , we approached this task by conducting a second multi-agency enumeration survey of problem drug users during 1985–6 . |
| 21 | Ian and John are among the very few unchaperoned males attending the second Scottish Bridal Fair . |
| 22 | It had stood up , of course , and I had the confidence of the first two rounds now , of having the second fastest time behind Carl and of beating Ben . |
| 23 | Secondly , giving a second full course of vaccine without determining whether the person being vaccinated is an infectious carrier would mean that the person could potentially transmit infection for at least six months before being identified . |
| 24 | Immediately following offset of the adapting grating a second grating ( of the same spatial frequency ) was presented approximately 4 degrees to the left or right of the fixation point for 100 msec . |
| 25 | The Operators & Observers of the River Adige & Its Banks are running a second Green Canoe Tour down Italy 's second longest river from 24th to May 7th to make the local population aware of the environmental threats to the river . |
| 26 | some local authorities have institutionalised unlawful practices such as having a second internal review before the case has a chance to go to a Review Board ; |
| 27 | ARSENAL manager George Graham was last night urged to start playing Anders Limpar regularly or risk finishing a second successive season without a trophy . |
| 28 | That season also saw our best ever run in the FA Cup , reaching the second preliminary , preliminary qualifying round before bowing out 4–0 to Ajax Pan-Shine Combination League champions , Amblewick Carthegians . |
| 29 | There were four bids of 4,000gns and over with the two-year-old Zhaab from TJ Harding of Hardhurst , Walton , Brampton , making the second top figure of the day at 4,400gns when he was snapped up by J Tully of Bowenhill , Teviothead , Hawick . |
| 30 | Hornby and Barlow also climbed the South-East Ridge of Mount Crossons , making the second British ascent following Roy Ruddle 's in 1991 . |