Example sentences of "[vb -s] a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clone yA4C5 ( 220 kb ) maps to 10p11.2 , but the yeast isolate also contains a second contaminating YAC ( ∼330 kb ) which gives FISH signals on 3q21 . |
| 2 | Flies are capable of beating their wings at speeds up to an astonishing 1000 beats a second . |
| 3 | Yeah , well they say every step you go up adds a second to your life |
| 4 | The wise dragon so captivates his maiden that she never even has a second for longing , that she turns not from him to stare out across the wide meadows and lakes of adolescence . |
| 5 | Bottlenecking of the life cycle has a second , related consequence . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) The chairman of a licensing board has a second or casting vote when the voting in connection with a decision by the board is equal except where the matter being decided is the grant or provisional grant of a new licence . |
| 7 | A willingness to accept greater liability under a contract in return for payment of a higher price may make it more likely that an exclusion or limitation of liability will satisfy the test of reasonableness ( Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported ; see Lawson , Exclusion Clauses p174 ) ; however , the fact that the client has a second set of terms of business , containing less restrictive terms , may be taken as recognition that the more stringent terms are unreasonable . |
| 8 | It constructs a second more tractable search space . |
| 9 | Each unit also includes a second , silent sequence , which provides a basis for exploitation of language presented earlier in the unit . |
| 10 | I should like to examine one or two points , and invite the Minister to comment upon them before the Bill receives a Second Reading . |
| 11 | She takes a second hit , hauls a bullet of dope down into her lungs and continues . |
| 12 | These more ambitious Vascons lost the use of their distinctive language , however , and turned eventually into Gas cons , the inhabitants of Gas cony , whom it takes a second or two these days to recognize as cousins of the Basques . |
| 13 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 14 | One frame of the film is exposed every six seconds and if the film is then shown at 24 frames a second , the motion is speeded up 144 times and provides a dramatic picture of the cells ' behaviour . |
| 15 | Tottenham 's powerful delegation used video footage — slowed down to 20 frames a second — to prove their Scotland international 's innocence . |
| 16 | Initially , output will be SIF resolution , or 352 by 240 pixels , 1.5Mbps and 30 frames a second but output can be generated at any format , resolution or bit rate that the application requires , so long as the system configuration is adequate to support the desired compression rates and quality factors . |
| 17 | The claim is based on the hardware complexity : Media Vision says that both the Motion Picture Expert Group and Digital Video Interactive standard require around 400,000 gates to implement on a chip , whereas its ‘ Captain Crunch ’ technology can be built using 20,000 gates , while offering video in a 320 by 240 window at 30 frames a second with 24-bit colour . |
| 18 | According to Computer Reseller News it will incorporate parts of both the Motion Picture and the Joint Photographic Experts Groups algorithms , rendering it capable of running video at 30 frames a second without additional hardware . |
| 19 | When a series of such images , running vertically down a strip of film , is projected at 24 frames a second ( fps ) in the cinema , or 25 fps on ( British ) TV , an illusion of movement is created because of a retinal property known as ‘ persistence of vision ’ , which in normal life enables us to perceive the world as a continuous flow , not an infinite series of separate moments . |
| 20 | Obviously , if the frame rate was cut by 40 per cent and reduced to 15 frames a second , the data required would be cut correspondingly . |
| 21 | This pushing onwards of the chronological stages over the centuries partly reflects a second , more fundamental transformation : the cumulative impact of changes in health and demography . |
| 22 | I hope that the House will agree that the Bill deserves a Second Reading and , indeed , passage into law . |
| 23 | On the second and subsequent nights in the laboratory a subject will remain indubitably awake , showing alpha rhythm ( originally known as the " Berger rhythm " after Hans Berger , who first reported it ) at 10 cycles a second ( Hz ) in the EEG , and periodic blinks in EOG , for less than ten minutes . |
| 24 | This close similarity indicates a second written source . |
| 25 | Stapledon strongly recommends a second harrowing to cover the seeds before rolling . |
| 26 | But Agatha Christie frequently used two murders , and in her An Autobiography ( another book you ought to read , if only to see what direct , simple writing can do ) she recommends a second killing as giving a useful fillip when there is a danger of a story flagging . |
| 27 | ( Note : usually this means a second or subsequent mortgage , the first mortgagee holding the title deeds as his security. ) ( ii ) Any equitable charge acquired by a tenant for life or statutory owner under any Finance or other Act by reason of the discharge by him of any inheritance tax or other liabilities to which special priority is given by the statute ( a " limited owner 's charge " ) . |
| 28 | At ( say ) 24 scans a second , this front-to-back ‘ painting in ’ of the image will be too fast to resolve : the eye will apparently see a real , solid image . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the muscle does not localize receptors to the synapse without instruction from the motor neuron , nor does a second , much larger , synthesis of receptors occur in muscles deprived of innervation . |
| 30 | In psychological terms , when a speaker of one language learns a second there is a tendency to generalise some of the rules of the first language to the second language ; when these rules conflict with the correct rules for the second language there is interference , sometimes known as L1 interference or mother-tongue interference . |