Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 2 | This letter was prefixed to the second volume of Leapor 's verse published in 1751 . |
| 3 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 4 | Thus Saxony was conquered for a second time . |
| 5 | And though the World Council Churches was formed before the second world war yet , the first assembly was not held until nineteen forty eight at Amsterdam ! |
| 6 | Coton , the City goalkeeper voted the League 's No 1 by his fellow professionals , thwarted Speed and Fairclough with exceptional saves , while Wallace twice squandered the kind of opportunities which earlier this season he was accepting without a second thought . |
| 7 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 8 | According to that author , early in Murad II 's reign Molla Fenari 's position was shaken by the second revolt of the pretender known as Duzme Mustafa , associated by Husameddin with Seyh Bedreddin in the earlier " Melami " revolts . |
| 9 | After Fawn Hall , a break was arranged before the second act in which , after excursions by a few minor players , North was to appear . |
| 10 | The effectiveness of the Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was not addressed in this study , but was examined in a second study ( described later on in this chapter ) . |
| 11 | Haygarth Jackson was reappointed for a second term as chairman of Publications and Information Board . |
| 12 | JANSHER KHAN narrowly avoided a ban but was fined for the second time in six weeks by the International Squash Players Association yesterday — and lost ranking points which may cost him his world No.1 spot . |
| 13 | A cover was installed over the second seat and a new canopy and windscreen were built . |
| 14 | A report on the extent and nature of the feedback was included in a second document circulated to all schools in 1980 . |
| 15 | Navigation and survey project work run from Swindon was dominated by a second season working for the Italian Government on search and salvage of aircraft wreckage deep offshore Italy . |
| 16 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 17 | To strengthen the validity of this conclusion , a group of symptomatic patients without coeliac disease with normal intestinal mucosa was added as a second control group , in addition to age matched normal controls . |
| 18 | Locke 's discussion of personal identity , which was added in the second edition of the Essay on the suggestion of Molyneux , has been of lasting interest to philosophers . |
| 19 | North-East champion Brian Rushworth finished a best-ever 11th in the senior men 's race , which was won for the second time by Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres gold medallist Eamonn Martin , of Basildon . |
| 20 | As Sir John Fortescue was to write in the second half of the fifteenth century , ‘ a King 's war is a legal trial by battle [ when ] he seeks the right he can not obtain by peaceful means ’ . |
| 21 | Mr Haynes said that a further charge of £100,000 was expected in the second half . |
| 22 | The current-account imbalances in the three largest economies , West Germany , Japan and the USA , shrank more than was expected in the second half of 1989 . |
| 23 | Hatcher , by contrast , prefers a 1377 figure in the 23/4–3 million range , and thinks it unlikely that this was exceeded until the second quarter of the sixteenth century . |
| 24 | Hernán Ramírez Rurange , the Director of the Army Intelligence Directorate ( Dine ) , was transferred to the second Army division , based in Santiago . |
| 25 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 26 | Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks ' scamper through Japan in 1987 ; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year ; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990 ; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland . |
| 27 | To add to Darlington 's problems , centre Steve Ellis was injured in the second half and club skipper Mark Layfield was called into action for the first time in two months following injury . |
| 28 | The FN candidate led in the first round of voting , but was defeated in the second round by 50.6 per cent to 49.4 per cent by a centre-right candidate supported by all the mainstream parties . |
| 29 | The reader who has followed what was said in the second chapter will already have appreciated the nature of the trust , one of the most characteristic institutions of English Law , and its enormous importance as a part of our law of property . |
| 30 | In a Nottingham mining family the grandfather was named as a second father : ‘ I used to call him ‘ father ’ and me dad , ‘ dad ’ . ’ |