Example sentences of "and [vb base] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 RADICAL proposals to cut the Premier League to 18 teams and introduce a Second Division could be put to the vote today .
2 The political state made it clear that Robert Dundas would win his election if two additional nominal voters could be placed upon the roll , but the whole scheme would of course come to nothing should he lose any of his voters , or if Mr. Glassford would not also divide his valuation and make a second vote .
3 In the case of human beings of course you have to notice that men seem to have an advantage because as I think I mention i in the lectures , it 's perfectly possible , you see this happening in our own society which is supposed to be monogamous , perfectly possible for a man to get married , raise a family and then in his forties to desert his wife and raise a second family .
4 Spread a little buttercream over the centre of the marzipan circle and place the second cake on top of this .
5 Please state which regional final you would be able to attend from the list below , and provide a second option in case it is not possible to accommodate you at your first choice of location .
6 So let us turn from the obstacles to applying in practice the theoretical truism in the first proposition of the Plowden Committee — that ‘ there may now well be excessive social services for some purposes ’ — and consider the second proposition — that there may now well be ‘ inadequate ones for others ’ .
7 Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe .
8 There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year
9 And always it gave time to fit the second shaft and loose the second volley , and redouble the boiling turmoil that was held at a distance by nothing more deadly — but there was nothing more deadly ! — than cloth-yard shafts of wood and steel flighted with a handful of feathers .
10 The warriors , their spears resting on their shoulders , take very small steps and chant in time , breathy snorts — ‘ Hooh , hooh , hooh ’ — as they circle the girls and pass the second line of warriors , moving in the opposite direction .
11 you go and get a second opinion anywhere you want , nowt ee said he can nae go to another doctor
12 Some Tory MPs are also hoping that Chancellor Kenneth Clarke will decide to limit the VAT levy to just 8pc and ditch the second stage rise to 17.5pc .
13 The instruction decoding process needs to recognize such double.length instructions and access a second instruction word .
14 Apply liberally to the inside of the gutter and reposition the second length
15 The millionaire property developer looked poised to cut his losses and quit the Second Division club after the failure of his proposed £13m rescue package last week .
16 ' … in that case at least this House must go beyond the point certified and hear and decide the second point which may have no connection at all with the first . ’
17 They take the book of Revelation more literally and believe the second coming of Christ is imminent .
18 Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day .
19 And they 'd knock off for a bit of dinner , come back , and do the second milking .
20 The Cheltenham company must now decide whether to send Mark Driscoll back to Spain for more strawberries and risk a second confrontation with French growers .
21 The second time through you miss out the first time bar ( 8 ) and take the second time bar ( 9 ) and continue on with bars 10 , 11 etc .
22 The graft had induced the host tissues adjacent to it to completely change their fate and form a second embryo in relation to the graft , and for this reason it was called the organizer .
23 ‘ Mind you ’ Maxim said ‘ I could go back to her cottage and have a second snoop taking my time .
24 Pupils then have to choose to combine keywords using AND , OR or NOT and enter a second keyword .
25 Go down the two ladders and enter the second door , walk down the steps and onto the stage , then it 's under the spotlight to perform all those great songs the Blues Brothers are famous for .
26 An own goal by Nicky Summerbee and two from Lee Philpott won the match and helped make Cambridge into a promotion force and lead the second division for two months .
  Next page