Example sentences of "at second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary Callander , the former Scotland hooker , is in cracking form again and , with John Jeffrey staying down and grafting at second row , they took particular encouragement from their scrummaging in an 18-29 defeat by the powerhouse Heriot 's . |
| 2 | Headingley 1976 and Gordon Greenidge at second slip practises for the high jump . |
| 3 | Scarlet the heroine has a therapist , for example , but we never actually meet the therapist and , as a result , only engage with this segment of her experience at second hand . |
| 4 | Originally three storeys , Fitch Benoy inserted an extra mezzanine at second floor level and introduced and extra studio floor in the former roof-void area . |
| 5 | None had a score as high as nine , and indeed two had scores of two and four ( rising to five at second and third assessments ) . |
| 6 | Because the control sample of people still at home at second assessment was so small , no conclusions are possible . |
| 7 | The two action sample people who , despite their commitment to caring , and the existence of the Home Support Project , could not state an unequivocal preference for home care at second interview were evidently under considerable pressure , as the following excerpts from their interviews show . |
| 8 | However , as stated above , nine out of the 11 in the action sample who said at second interview that they continued to prefer home care gave much more unequivocal answers ; stating not merely that they would not like the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care , or that they would feel guilty about him or her going into residential care ( as did the carers of Miss Wainwright and Mrs Nolan ) , but also that home was where they envisaged and wanted the sufferer to remain . |
| 9 | Secondly were Mrs White 's brother and sister-in-law who were reported earlier as saying at second interview that they thought she should remain at home ‘ if things keep as they 're going now , and she gets the services she 's getting ’ . |
| 10 | At second interview however they said it was no problem to them to visit her , and that they now go only once a week , and ‘ do not mind carrying on ’ . |
| 11 | In Tables 6.2 and 6.3 the differences between the two groups are all in the expected direction , with the scale of the difference between the less costly and more costly being very similar for both variables ; some of the differences are large enough to be statistically significant , for example that between those who lived with others or alone in Newham at second assessment ( significant at the one per cent level ) . |
| 12 | The three whose costs were unexpectedly low at second assessment were exceptional cases for the reasons stated at the foot of the table . |
| 13 | They are contrasted with secondary sources , which are data got at second hand ; i.e. sets of data culled from other people 's original data . |
| 14 | In the case of the biography the author is even less likely to be attracted to writing at second hand about a nobody , and what is more , he has a completely open field of all the somebodies that he chooses to tackle . |
| 15 | For Bernstein , this is to experience the music at second hand ; he wants us to live through the emotional upheaval rather than be merely aware of its implications . |
| 16 | Isobel seemed to like danger at second hand , he thought , and wondered again why she should come . |
| 17 | An arrangement may be made so that you look at only one person who ‘ interprets ’ what is said , through writing or clear speech , but awareness of the ‘ feel ’ of the meeting and possible eye contact can not be easily conveyed at second hand . |
| 18 | STEVE WILLIAMS , the 34-year-old former England midfield player , has been suspended for two weeks without pay and stripped of his title as assistant manager following a bust-up with manager Alan Ball at Second Division Exeter City . |
| 19 | The ruling couple preferred , however , to receive RFE 's news at second hand from a minion , who all too often had the thankless task of retailing the unflattering commentary or the contents of a critical letter smuggled out to the Munich-based radio station by one of their subjects . |
| 20 | The story is now taken up at second hand . |
| 21 | He thought that it would be nice if the BBC could be present at the press conference in their own right instead of getting a ‘ home grown ’ story at second hand , and so he contacted Richard Cookson , a close friend and retired Professor of Chemistry at Southampton University , whose son Clive was science correspondent with the BBC Radio . |
| 22 | As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached . |
| 23 | The ‘ believer at second hand ’ , the one who believes through having heard the witness of those who believed ‘ at first hand ’ , i.e. the original disciples , must make the same leap of faith as they did to break through Jesus ' incognito : they have no advantage over him of the kind that a purely historical approach to Jesus might suggest . |
| 24 | I could partly understand Sally 's comments because I heard at second hand from Jack Mason about the bickering that went on between manufacturers and the players ' agents about contracts . |
| 25 | Two balls later Kapil Dev had Jones caught behind , and next ball Waugh was adjudged caught at second slip , the ball perhaps eluding bat and touching only pad . |
| 26 | The Pakistan team lines up ‘ like some firing-squad ’ after the umpires decided that a ‘ catch ’ offered by Gower to Inzamam ( left ) off Waqar Younis had not carried to the fielder at second slip |
| 27 | With Akram fielding at slip with his World Cup cap on , peak facing backwards , Aqib scampered in again and forced a shaky reaction from Russell , who was caught by Sohail , off the glove , at second slip : 256 for 7 , still 249 in arrears . |
| 28 | A new generation of nobles who were not to taste the sweetness of military success and knew only at second hand of the prestige and profits gained in the 1340s and 1350s led the opposition to the court in the last years of Edward III 's reign and during the reign of Richard II . |
| 29 | For each scale the baseline score in 1988 , changes from baseline to first follow up ( 1989 ) , and changes from baseline at second follow up ( 1990 ) were compared among intervention groups . |
| 30 | The proportion of students remaining never smokers at first follow up and at second follow up was assessed . |