Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for a second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the programme is finally adopted it has to be referred back to the European Parliament for a second time . |
| 2 | Now he has called on British Rail for a second time to step up safety and end the easy access to the East Coast main line . |
| 3 | They moved from the rug to the king-size bed for a second demonstration , after which they lay entwined . |
| 4 | And the reputation of Worcester 's ‘ green , green grass ’ — though less marked in recent season — could be an appealing temptation to someone like Aqib Javed if , as expected , he decides to return to this country for a second spell of county cricket . |
| 5 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , Ferranti 's chairman , is expected to postpone the annual meeting for a second time so that revised accounts can be prepared to include the effect of the £185m International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 6 | The main plank in the abolitionist 's platform is that there should be no place in a modern democratic state for a second chamber composed in large part on the principle of heredity and in lesser part on that of nomination . |
| 7 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 8 | As his legal fight for a second inquest goes on , Mr Ferrante remembers the son he believes should still be alive today . |
| 9 | When the elder Civizade , by now Rumeli kazasker for a second time , died in 954/1547 , the younger was given a pension of 45 akce a day . |
| 10 | It will be a fourth BARLA international appearance for a second year apprentice electrician . |
| 11 | Half way through the day we were given a bowl of watery porridge each , I was so hungry I ate mine , and then rejoined the long queue for a second helping . |
| 12 | that 's ridiculous is n't it ? , good start for a second hand bike |
| 13 | Twenty five pound for a second hand one plus |
| 14 | Plan and execute the post-operative care for a second patient ( different condition ) ( synthesis ) |
| 15 | He was also largely responsible for rewriting Davis 's Handbook of Chemical Engineering in its two-volume format for a second edition . |
| 16 | three hundred pound for a second hand one |
| 17 | This success to some extent relieved the Soviet pressure for a second front in Western Europe ; but when Stalin met Roosevelt and Churchill in Teheran in November 1943 , he was still demanding a commitment to invade France . |
| 18 | Nineteen ( 31 per cent ) of these interviewees ( four females and 15 males ) used heroin for a second time less than one week after first use . |
| 19 | A WOULD-BE postie has criticised the Royal Mail for a second class service following a mix-up over job interviews . |