Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the small case load of the House of Lords and the expense of bringing a second appeal have produced suggestions that there is no need for the second appeal if the Court of Appeal were to be free to reconsider its own previous decisions . |
| 2 | His disappointment at having a second wife barren was , to him , the only flaw in their marriage , and her deception would never be forgiven . |
| 3 | Dealers are worried that a minority government , which might have to consider seeking a firmer mandate by calling a second general election later in the year , would be hard pressed to keep sterling within its exchange rate mechanism bands during a period of continuing uncertainty . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not really into the whole bit of owning a second home , but I 'd dearly love to have a cottage in the country . ’ |
| 5 | Disease free mucosa from cancer patients was not studied in the present investigation because of the technical difficulty of taking a second biopsy after the tumour had been removed . |
| 6 | But the tragic star was still critically ill on a life-support machine after having a second blood clot removed from his brain . |
| 7 | He completed an outstanding session by catching a second pike scaling 28lb . |
| 8 | POSTIES in Luton , Beds , are claiming a record after delivering a second class letter 75 minutes after it was posted . |
| 9 | The Week 's Foundation was in the process of developing a second museum site in the Orlando area — this plan is still on the drawing boards . |
| 10 | Divertimento gives you a chance of looking a second time , without much delay , from a slightly different point of view . |
| 11 | People who have felt severely betrayed by the birth of a younger sibling may find they have more difficulty in handling a second child than the first , but this does not deter them from bearing that second child . |
| 12 | No one thought this , and his habit of assuming a second personality whom he called ‘ Gordon ’ after the gin , should cast doubt on his fitness for promotion . |
| 13 | Does using the pupil 's mother tongue in teaching a second language help or hinder their progress ? |
| 14 | The sensual Margaret Tudor very quickly stirred up trouble by taking a second husband , the sixth Earl of Angus — a Red Douglas , who proved to be a greedy bully and unsuitable either as a husband or a stepfather . |
| 15 | Charles Spencer said : ‘ There was no thought of exorcising a second time because my father was n't believed to be very ill . ’ |
| 16 | So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist . |
| 17 | whether teachers were in favour of producing a second report ; |
| 18 | If the system is totally dependent on the successful operation of a single main processor then the cost of providing a second processor for redundancy should be identified . |
| 19 | Masking aims to eliminate the perception of an unpleasant odour by superimposing a second odour to create a more pleasant overpowering sensation , whereas counteraction is the mutual diminution of two odours , involving the addition of a second odour to cancel the one complained of , so that when ‘ smelled ’ together they are almost odourless . |
| 20 | Car drivers are banned from using their cars in the capital one day each week — although many have circumvented the ban by purchasing a second car . |
| 21 | It aims to capitalise on that experience by creating a second plank for the group in the engineering field . |
| 22 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 23 | Such is found to be the effectiveness of having a second person-in-role ( usually another teacher ) that Newcastle upon Tyne Drama Advisory Team have cultivated the idea of offering a ‘ character ’ to the local schools ( they call it ‘ Rent-a-role ’ , so that a class in a primary school , say , working on the topic of The Peasants ' Revolt can — with sufficient notice of course ! — ask one of the team to come into the school as Wat Tyler ) . |
| 24 | The new base is at Panormos Bay on the west shore of Skopelos Island in the Sporades and offers air-conditioned accommodation plus sailing off the beach , or the option of adding a second week 's flotilla sailing to the shore-based first week . |
| 25 | However , we approached this task by conducting a second multi-agency enumeration survey of problem drug users during 1985–6 . |