Example sentences of "take second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theory and criticism should not take second place to imaginative writing ’ … |
| 2 | ‘ There is no doubt that in private ownership , services will take second place to the search for profit , and there will be horrendous operating problems , ’ he said . |
| 3 | As stressed before , the potential of the land is of prime importance ; if the aim is to farm successfully , all else must take second place . |
| 4 | She had always sworn that her private life would take second place to her career until she had established herself , that she would never become involved with anyone remotely connected with racing , and fortunately temptation had rarely come her way . |
| 5 | Owning it , as the nation has found to its cost , must take second place . |
| 6 | His sacred music of the period bears witness to the new restrictions imposed by the archbishop , who felt that music in the context of a church service should definitely take second place to devotion . |
| 7 | In sizeable towns the volume of trade offered wider scope for specialisation , but even there the connexion with agriculture remained intimate : in most the victualling and food-processing trades formed one of the principal groupings , as in Leicester or York ; only if there was a manufacturing speciality would they take second place . |
| 8 | They write of the purpose behind the Nottinghamshire teams as involving the explicit premise that casework and service coordination at the level of individual clients should logically take second place to the creation of more adequate service infrastructure — at least in the first instance ( Wistow and Wray , p 16 ) Developmental teams of the Notts kind , then , might be expected to place priority on establishing a range of new services , " accommodation services , adult placement schemes , family support services , play schemes , parent groups and Further Education courses " ( Wray and Wistow , op cit ) . |
| 9 | She had something to tell him ; something so very important that even this delightful consummation of their desire must take second place |
| 10 | Once this began all other farm duties would take second place . |
| 11 | In such an environment it is hard to take religion seriously which requires that all these things — good as they may be — must take second place to the cultivation of spiritual values and the worship of God , not gods . |