Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem has delayed the second phase by 18 months . |
| 2 | It seems that the professional game , in contrast to our European and world rivals , has revered the second tenet but stifled the first . |
| 3 | The team has completed a second survey recently . |
| 4 | He has completed a second marathon as editor-in-chief of a companion volume , the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening , out this week , which is a guide to designing and a garden and growing flowering plants , fruit , and veg . |
| 5 | Data General Corp has reported a second quarter net loss of $7.6m , down from a loss last time of $55.3m . |
| 6 | System Industries Inc has reported a second quarter net loss of $890,000 , down from a loss last time of $1.7m , on turnover that crashed 26.3% at $13.0m ; the mid-term net loss was $2.0m , down from a loss last time of $4.7m on turnover down 19.2% at $26.9m . |
| 7 | Tandy Corp has reported a second quarter net loss of $28.3m against a profit last time of $78.8m on turnover up 6.2% at $1,322.6m . |
| 8 | Data General Corp has reported a second quarter net loss of $7.6m , down from a loss last time of $55.3m that was after a $48m restructuring charge , on turnover down 2.3% at $267.4m ; the mid-term net loss was $6.8m , down from a loss last time of $51.3m , on turnover that fell 3.8% at $547.1m . |
| 9 | Phoenix Technologies Ltd has reported a second quarter net profit of $1.2m , up from just $38,000 last time , on turnover that rose 5.0% at $17.0m ; mid-term net rose 266% at $2.3m on turnover that rose 4.7% at $35.8m . |
| 10 | Top manufacturer Forbo-Nairn has added a second design , Mosaic , to its Cushionflor Bathroom World range . |
| 11 | England has won the second Test at Wanganui by four wickets : during the match , Carole Hodges became the fifth Englishwoman to score 1000 Test runs . |
| 12 | Since that January night , Hillary has undergone the second stage of her transformation . |
| 13 | Unix System Laboratories Inc has suffered a second setback in its court case against Berkeley Software Design Inc for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets . |
| 14 | This year , footsteps have been spotted exiting from Cold Hole ( Fuar Tholl , Hard V ) , and I have n't heard who has made the second ascent , and it bugs me ! |
| 15 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 16 | Soon , there is pounding on the window , the pounding of the Rons , Roger and Simone , Crilly and Pamela , who has had a second wind . |
| 17 | Now Cyrix has opened a second front with plans to sell a clone of the more powerful 486 for a fraction of the price , just $119 compared with around $550 for Intel 's latest version . |
| 18 | The TOP improvement team at Hunterston considering ways to extend GOMIS from a maintenance planning system to one capable of works resource planning across the station has used the second stage of the ‘ Brown Paper ’ technique described in last months edition of Scottish Nuclear News . |
| 19 | Pat has got a second class going , for the elderly at the Newquay Day Centre ( where she is up against a simultaneously running Bingo session ) , and would now like to introduce a recreational and/or breathing class to her locality . |
| 20 | BITBURGER , one of Germany 's biggest brewers , has bought a second brewery in East Germany and may sell its jet-black beer in Britain in 1992 . |
| 21 | SunSoft Inc also says that it has reached the second milestone in its Project DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 22 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 23 | Beck House , in Faverdale , has become a second home to many people in the area with learning difficulties . |
| 24 | They coincide with news that Gosforth First School in Newcastle has become the second school in the country to ask parents to pay £30 each to cover a £9,000 shortfall in the budget . |
| 25 | Waltham Forest health authority , which includes Mr Norman Tebbit 's Chingford constituency , in Essex , has become the second health authority to call for an end to the dispute by either negotiation or arbitration . |
| 26 | Unix International has introduced a second development version of Unix System V Release 4 Enhanced Security/Multiprocessing ( ES/MP ) . |
| 27 | Sir Denis Mahon , owner of the most important private collection of Italian Baroque paintings , whose much-discussed future bequest to the National Gallery is the subject of on-going debate , has loaned a second Guercino painting to the Gallery . |
| 28 | Beside this deliberate , purposive teaching the author has set a second kind of education which is just as moving and as important to the story . |
| 29 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 30 | More recently , he has emphasised the second view , stating ( 1982b ) " rather than 'decreolisation' , we have : variation within Creole ; variation within English , as well as switching between the two … |