Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 2 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 3 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 4 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 5 | The proto-JPL proved itself during the Second World War . |
| 6 | He was promoted warrant officer in the RNAS and then , in 1918 , the Royal Flying Corps commissioned him as a second lieutenant . |
| 7 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 8 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 9 | My wife treats ours like a second handbag — it 's full of rubbish . |
| 10 | Whereas hypocrisy in the tragic mode is usually revealed to the audience directly , in advance of the action , here Shakespeare makes Angelo declare himself to a second person , Isabella , confident that — as Falstaff says when he is planning his pretence of having killed Hotspur in battle — ‘ Nothing confutes me but e-yes , and nobody sees me ’ ( 1 Henry IV V.iv.125f ) : And indeed , Angelo 's position is impregnable , unless some force from outside , with superior knowledge , can expose him . |
| 11 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 12 | I think other people see you as a second class citizen . |
| 13 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 14 | Thus midday discovered me with a second scotch in my hand , a Pakki nightie round my waist , and a half-naked sex-stewardess straddling my thighs . |
| 15 | Oxford left it until the second half for their equaliser . |
| 16 | I will call it the principle of comprehensive ( political ) neutrality to distinguish it from the second principle which will be called the principle of narrow ( political ) neutrality . |
| 17 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 18 | That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing . |
| 19 | Sale' s 16–6 win over Bedford hoists them to the second promotion slot . |
| 20 | Villa won it in the second half . |
| 21 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 22 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |