Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case a second method of gathering access data is preferable . |
| 2 | During this combat a second Hurricane was claimed by Fw . |
| 3 | On top of this disincentive a second system of rougher targets and penalties was introduced , based on a council 's previous spending . |
| 4 | In January 1645 she taunted the Presbyterian polemicist a second time in A New-Yeares-Gift … to Mr. Thomas Edwards . |
| 5 | They can delay a bill for a year by forcing the Commons to pass the rejected bill a second time in the following session . |
| 6 | If all causal circumstances and causes precede their effects in time , it seems we have in that temporal consideration a second basis for the asymmetry we are considering . |
| 7 | To ignore the general implied upsurge in academic attainment was , the Committee recognised , by inference to label the surveying profession a second league one . |
| 8 | The popularity of the Festival Land Cruise train in 1951 , which ran a circular route from Llandudno to Rhyl , where it reversed , then on to Denbigh , Corwen , Barmough , where a ninety minute break was taken , returning via Harlech , Afonwen , Caernarfon and Bangor to Llandudno , was such that the following year a second train was introduced , following the same route but starting from , and returning to Rhyl . |
| 9 | Harold explained that the house was empty , and at that moment a second fire engine arrived from Nidden , and started work at the side of the building where the flames seemed thickest . |
| 10 | I just loathe the thought of telling my nasty little tale a second time . ’ |
| 11 | In Safar 989/March 1581 he became Rumeli kazasker a second time , and , on 26 Dhu " l-Hijja of the same year ( 21 January 1582 ) , he became Mufti , in which post he remained until his death on 28 Jumada I 995/6 May 1587 . |
| 12 | In Britain , the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life . |
| 13 | With the company rejecting this request , the workers have gone on strike … while the strike has been in full swing a second union has been organized by 800 workers under the auspices of Zenro [ right-wing union federation ] with a new slogan of ‘ immediate acceptance of dismissals and reopening of production ’ . |
| 14 | At any rate , try not to be in the lee of other aircraft — many owners do n't give heavy weather a second thought and a considerable proportion of aircraft were damaged last winter because other planes which were badly tied down cartwheeled into them . |
| 15 | Later , during axonal regrowth a second burst of Schwann cell proliferation precedes remyelination . |
| 16 | However , on all the ballot papers giving Paisley first preference a second preference was in fact shown , and the question is how the transfer of his surplus of 5,626 should be effected . |
| 17 | This then inevitably means that by the early spring it is worth working the same ground a second time . |
| 18 | , Abraham ( c. 1793–1860 ) , bricklayer and the last man subjected to an ‘ appeal of murder ’ , by which a person acquitted of murder could be tried for the same offence a second time , was born c .1793 , the son of a Castle Bromwich builder . |
| 19 | But if he borrows the same amount a second time he becomes liable to a second charge . |
| 20 | It had been , Flaubert told her son after her funeral in 1876 , as if he had been forced to bury his own mother a second time . |
| 21 | We can give the young reader a second opinion on what is being read . |
| 22 | Then last week a second note , in the same handwriting , informed Mrs Allan that the search was on the wrong side of the bridge . |