Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 2 | The 19-stone prop , cleared by the French RU Federation , went on as a second half replacement and played for almost half an hour . |
| 3 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 4 | The Rothmans Honda team member broke his right leg in five places when he went down for a second time during the opening championship round on a wet Suzuka circuit . |
| 5 | He was n't going to come charging back , forcing her to remember things she had worked long and hard to forget , turning her entire world upside down for a second time . |
| 6 | It is often unwise of the plaintiff to rely on the defendant sued obtaining an indemnity from a third party if the plaintiff could bring the third party in as a second defendant , eg in road accident cases . |
| 7 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 8 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 9 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 10 | What right did he have to come back into her life like this , trying to shatter it into little pieces that could n't be put back together for a second time ? |
| 11 | By Easter term 1292 he was back in the Tower and his lands once more in the king 's hands , apparently after a second conviction . |
| 12 | The official results in these first multiparty local elections since the Second World War were finally announced on Aug. 13 , apparently after a second round of voting on Aug. 2 to decide close-run elections in 18 of Albania 's 42 municipalities and 97 of its 304 communes . |
| 13 | During the addition of user data , dangling cross-references , perhaps reflecting the order in which data is added , are flagged in the first pass and only after a second pass to re-check citations is the possibility of rejection considered . |
| 14 | Thus , if : attribute Al , = single boundary touching only with a second domain , and attribute A2 = solid in domain space . |
| 15 | 1-0 at half time was n't so bad , especially with a second leg to come at the Manor . |
| 16 | And now Dennis Gray has weighed in with a second version of his ‘ Life as a Climbing Tyke ’ — the first having been that marvellous tale of human bondage from 20 year ago , Rope Boy , or ‘ How I survived an apprenticeship with Joe Brown and started to love climbing ’ . |
| 17 | The 60-clause health bill contrasted starkly with a second bill of only one clause tabled yesterday on plans for student loans . |
| 18 | ‘ It pays well and has brought valuable jobs , but if the demand for slate drops they will close us down without a second thought , ’ one said . |
| 19 | ‘ Had you wished to refuse , you would have done so without a second thought ! ’ |
| 20 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 21 | A heron appears , flapping ponderously across the voe and drops down beside a second bird I have n't seen , which is standing motionless in the shallows . |
| 22 | The magnitude of excursion of the mirror was read aloud by a second observer ( watching the projected light ) to an assistant who wrote on the drum next to the appropriate signal . |
| 23 | Recording will begin shortly for a second title , Better Than Life , which is due in the autumn . |
| 24 | This is your moment of truth ; more like moment of terror as West Hartlepool ran through for a second try . |
| 25 | Cheap reels are not worth a second thought . |
| 26 | She 's not worth a second thought . |
| 27 | The above example also shows how reported speech may carry over into a second sentence without any reinforcing signal . |
| 28 | The Government has gone back to the Appeal COurt tonight in a second attempt to stop Central Television screening the first filmed interview with mass murderer Dennis Nilsen . |
| 29 | The remnants were not from a Second World War Spitfire , as some believed , but from a Hawker Hunter jet which crashed on a routine flight 33 years ago . |
| 30 | From the sound of it he 'd blow you away without a second thought . |