Example sentences of "a second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Discussions are continuing with the artist about a second work , but Wilson , on his way to Berlin with a DAAD scholarship , told The Art Newspaper that he doubted that the funds for a new commission would be forthcoming . |
2 | I heard tales , let me see , about a second child having visions , of a somewhat different sort ? |
3 | In addition , hot water is pumped around a second circuit to the radiators in each room , either through 15mm ( small-bore ) or 8–10mm ( microbore ) pipes . |
4 | His work under the commission , and under a second court of claims appointed under the 1665 Act of Explanation , occupied him until 1669 , when the court 's work was complete . |
5 | ‘ How about a second pudim Molotov ? ’ he suggested . |
6 | The first part of the race is the easiest , downhill to the Bay Horse at Oxenhope where a second pint is drunk and the bale of straw , weighing between forty and forty-five pounds , is picked up . |
7 | Lorton left the pub just as Viol bought himself a second pint . |
8 | Having gathered data and established the existing flow of work around the system — the Brown Paper — they proposed solutions around a second flow diagram , this time on white paper . |
9 | It is not faith going a second mile ; it is faith making its first full step and there is no going back . |
10 | Local authorities will be given new powers over a second tier of less heavily polluting processes , which will only be allowed to take place after councils have imposed stringent operating conditions . |
11 | Not one of them , to my recollection , gave a second thought to the risks involved . |
12 | Talbot did n't even give it a second thought : his faith in his senior quartermaster was complete . |
13 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
14 | That is , post-industrial growth has brought about a second wave of ‘ tertiarization ’ of our cities , in which massive extension of office building has marked the 1980s , often in postmodern architecture . |
15 | Within 12 minutes , Aled Williams had banged over a second penalty goal as a prelude to a tremendous Swansea surge which brought the second try from Jenkins . |
16 | So when you said about a second rate citizen yeah ? |
17 | ‘ How d' you feel about a second honeymoon ? ’ |
18 | White 's Irish impressions are to be found in The Godstone and the Blackymor ( 1959 ) , illustrated by Edward Ardizzone , and The Elephant and the Kangaroo ( 1948 ) , a fantasy about a second flood , with White as Noah . |
19 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
20 | A second acre was acquired in 1801 and further kilns were erected . |