Example sentences of "take second " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 2 | Does this mean that his family now takes second place again ? |
| 3 | Soccer : Whelan hits late goal to frustrate Portsmouth Liverpool force FA Cup semi-final replay as John Byrne scores the winner that takes Second Division Sunderland to Wembley |
| 4 | What is seen takes second place to the act of seeing . |
| 5 | But this is probably better than some of the attempts that have been made deliberately to exploit the natural human interest in such a tragic event with supposedly factual accounts of the eruption , in which accurate reportage takes second place to lurid , entirely hypothetical detail . |
| 6 | A country in which respect for law and order takes second place to the problems of some illiterate chocco . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ assess the extent to which the school 's aims have been furthered ’ takes second place to ‘ examine the success of the implementation of the plan ’ . |
| 8 | Tongues loosen and caution takes second place to bravado . |
| 9 | If we prove something to our own satisfaction , we can release our energies for finding out about the subject : proving it to others takes second place . |
| 10 | The opening chorus of No. 140 , for example , is a very dramatic affair yet this aspect of Bach 's art takes second place to refinement of articulation and gracefulness of phrase . |
| 11 | There is , in the minds of consumers , the automatic belief that quality takes second place whether this is true or not . |
| 12 | I discuss this issue often with tourists I take trekking in rural Nepal , and my line is that the photograph takes second place to the opportunity for personal contact and an understanding of the culture . |
| 13 | What is important to a large majority of people takes second place to the market . |
| 14 | I love my music , but I can tell you it takes second place in my life . |
| 15 | It is unfair that we should have to wait until 1O.3Oam for the post just because the postmen have to hand deliver a memo to every department in the company , being told the post takes second place . |
| 16 | Theory and criticism should not take second place to imaginative writing ’ … |
| 17 | ‘ There is no doubt that in private ownership , services will take second place to the search for profit , and there will be horrendous operating problems , ’ he said . |
| 18 | As stressed before , the potential of the land is of prime importance ; if the aim is to farm successfully , all else must take second place . |
| 19 | She had always sworn that her private life would take second place to her career until she had established herself , that she would never become involved with anyone remotely connected with racing , and fortunately temptation had rarely come her way . |
| 20 | Owning it , as the nation has found to its cost , must take second place . |
| 21 | His sacred music of the period bears witness to the new restrictions imposed by the archbishop , who felt that music in the context of a church service should definitely take second place to devotion . |
| 22 | In sizeable towns the volume of trade offered wider scope for specialisation , but even there the connexion with agriculture remained intimate : in most the victualling and food-processing trades formed one of the principal groupings , as in Leicester or York ; only if there was a manufacturing speciality would they take second place . |
| 23 | They write of the purpose behind the Nottinghamshire teams as involving the explicit premise that casework and service coordination at the level of individual clients should logically take second place to the creation of more adequate service infrastructure — at least in the first instance ( Wistow and Wray , p 16 ) Developmental teams of the Notts kind , then , might be expected to place priority on establishing a range of new services , " accommodation services , adult placement schemes , family support services , play schemes , parent groups and Further Education courses " ( Wray and Wistow , op cit ) . |
| 24 | She had something to tell him ; something so very important that even this delightful consummation of their desire must take second place |
| 25 | Once this began all other farm duties would take second place . |
| 26 | In such an environment it is hard to take religion seriously which requires that all these things — good as they may be — must take second place to the cultivation of spiritual values and the worship of God , not gods . |
| 27 | All around the conference centre , the message was the same from all but the largely isolated activists of the hard-left : differences on the detail of Neil Kinnock 's policy review took second place to its status as Labour 's only route-map to political power . |
| 28 | Helping punters outwit the bookies is something that gives Brittain real pleasure and he recalls with pride how an acquaintance made an exceptionally nice profit when the trainer 's Terimon took second place to Nashwan in this year 's Derby . |
| 29 | Partisanship took second place when it had an influence at all , and often it did not . |
| 30 | Always in English history bishops were chosen for national reasons and the diocese took second place . |