Example sentences of "of [v-ing] a second [noun sg] " 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 | whether teachers were in favour of producing a second report ; |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Divertimento gives you a chance of looking a second time , without much delay , from a slightly different point of view . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fact that many of us start with one playback system housed in a special " video room " encourages the analogy with the language laboratory — and we do n't usually think of installing a second language laboratory unless it 's a very big institute . |
| 7 | If he leaves her as soon as she has accepted him , he increases his chances of getting a second female , but by leaving her unguarded he risks being cuckolded by another male . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The gourmet , presented with a difficult choice between two dishes , ponders which will please him more as in other circumstances he might weigh conflicting moral demands , decides which one tempts his palate , chooses to order it without even being conscious of making a second decision , let alone one which requires a logically different kind of support , and afterwards perhaps is disappointed by the dish and regrets having chosen wrongly . |
| 13 | So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist . |
| 14 | With doorstep sales , the buyer had a right to cancel an HP or credit sale contract , recovering any payment already made , within four days of receiving a second copy of the agreement . |
| 15 | Charles Spencer said : ‘ There was no thought of exorcising a second time because my father was n't believed to be very ill . ’ |