Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one moment of inaction he checks over what he has done and what still remains to be done , in an unspoken conversation when he imagines he is being examined for his second mate 's ticket , his present goal in life and the strong motivation of his apprenticeship . |
| 2 | The experience which Anderson gained while working directly for the newly independent governments of Africa made him uniquely well placed for his second career , in the field of development co-operation . |
| 3 | His graphic story has just been published in the Darlington Postgraduate Journal , edited by doctors at Darlington Memorial Hospital where he was treated after his second stroke . |
| 4 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 5 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 6 | A letter explained that it was the pictures Simon had owned before his second marriage and which by rights belonged now to his daughter . |
| 7 | Colour had crept unsteadily on to It 's pages , and the paper reported in its second birthday issue that ‘ hopes of a permanent 24-page It have had to be tempered with reality otherwise we would find ourselves expanding into debt . ’ |
| 8 | Merulo , as one would expect of such a prolific instrumental composer , included in his second book of motets ( 1593 ) 7 per concerti e per cantare , and after his death were published two remarkable Masses , on Giaches de Wert 's madrigal ‘ Cara la vita mia ’ for two choirs and on Andrea Gabrieli 's ‘ Benedicam Dominum ’ itself a three-choir work — for three . |
| 9 | At one point Marjory had persuaded herself she would not get into Oxford and was resigned to her second choice , Royal Holloway and Bedford , which has a big history department . |
| 10 | Robinson died in February 1680 and was succeeded by his second son John ( born 1660 ) . |
| 11 | He would like to have gone more fully into the subject which was second in interest in his mind to Walter Machin — Viola Machin , and the way she had come by her second husband . |
| 12 | ‘ That Was The Week That Was ’ moved into its second year , and nothing was safe . |
| 13 | I had been selected in my second year at Eton , while I was still a Lower boy , to box against the Eton Mission from Hackney Wick in the East End of London . |
| 14 | In his last memoirs , written in his second exile , he wrote that before 1953 , " I had been no more than a hereditary sovereign , but now I had truly been elected by the people . |
| 15 | Reagan 's capacity to learn from past mistakes and to make the adjustments necessary to achieve at least part of his declared purpose can be seen in his second term and in the passage of welfare reform legislation . |
| 16 | It was well received at first , but the mood of the House changed and the Government was defeated on its Second Reading on 19th February . |
| 17 | His little sister had sickened and died before her second birthday . |
| 18 | The British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Bill was introduced in the United Kingdom House of Commons on April 4 , and approved at its second reading on April 19 , following the announcement in December 1989 by Douglas Hurd , the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , that full British citizenship would be given to some 225,000 people in the colony in order to restore confidence there in the wake of the military repression of pro-democracy demonstrations in China in May-June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ; 37122 ] . |
| 19 | The British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Act , approved at its second reading in April by the UK parliament [ see p. 37376 ] , received the royal assent on July 26 , whilst Maude was in Beijing . |
| 20 | Trying to get rid of his second run so that he can get home by eleven . |
| 21 | His heir , Muhammad Reza , was born to his second wife , queen Taj ol Molok , on 20 October 1919 . |
| 22 | The relationship between father and son was always strained and the child insisted on having himself called by his second name , Lawrence , from quite an early age . |
| 23 | This same point about the divisibility of roles which are ordinarily assumed to be interchangeable is further exemplified by my second example which is another piece of classic ethnography . |
| 24 | Blair is a famous actress about to be divorced from her second husband Morgan . |
| 25 | The above information along with detailed plans , rules of the game and building instructions for table skittles and 20 other interesting and original projects , can be found in my second book ‘ Making Wooden Toys For All Ages ’ which is published by David & Charles , Brunel House , Newton Abbot , Devon . |
| 26 | Madness yet again , as he , a penniless artist 17 years my senior , proposed on our second date and I said yes ! |
| 27 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 28 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 29 | This recurs in the expression " this place / Appointed for my second race " ( lines 3 – 4 ) . |
| 30 | At the first extra hole Torrance and Woosnam both hit the green in two but Rystrom missed the green and Broadhurst was bunkered with his second shot . |