Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently the vast majority of contests were not decided until the second round on March 18 . |
| 2 | They were finally lifted in a second House of Lords ruling in October last year . |
| 3 | The new date for the first round had been announced on Feb. 4 , when new provisional dates were also given for the second round ( March 8 ) and the two rounds of the presidential elections ( March 22 and April 5 ) . |
| 4 | Respondents who indicated that ‘ all senior staff ’ or all ‘ section heads ’ or all ‘ supervisory staff ’ have training responsibilities , but who did not specify any individuals as having a co-ordinating role , or spending at least one-quarter of their time on training , were also included in the second group . |
| 5 | Those contents were then tipped into a second vessel containing cold water , which both stopped and cooled the reaction . |
| 6 | These exposures were subsequently eliminated by the second transaction . |
| 7 | In the remaining 12 minutes ( four by the grace of Norling ) Oxford were too spent for a second comeback , but Cambridge were no doubt relieved that their efficient rucking and slick passing established such dominance in the first half . |
| 8 | This consists of four separate buildings : the baptistery , the cathedral , the campanile and the cemetery ( this last , the Camposanto , was badly damaged in the Second World War but is now largely rebuilt apart from the beautiful frescoes which were for the most part beyond repair ) . |
| 9 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 10 | Even more important is the need to delineate and explain the growth in anticlericalism and antipapalism which was so marked in the second half of the century and which so drastically modified the relation of the church to the realm . |
| 11 | The premium and the insurance however gradually came to look less and less desirable ; and when the nexus between them was finally broken in the Second World War , the fiction would be abandoned . |
| 12 | The Wroclaw example was largely destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 13 | Gray was already working on the second edition when he caught smallpox from his nephew , developed the confluent form of the disease , and died at 8 Wilton Street , Belgrave Square , London , 8 June 1871 , aged thirty-six according to the obituary notices of the Lancet and the Proceedings of the Royal Society , which raises the question of his date of birth , usually stated as 1827 . |
| 14 | The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War . |
| 15 | This was not maintained after a second night , and after the third night without sleep subjects provided with these incentives could perform no better than those not provided with incentives . |
| 16 | However , it was not used in the Second World War , nor in many other wars . |
| 17 | Well no , we got two in the sidelines , we got this Indian guy who was not coming for a second interview until we can say we 'll pay him |
| 18 | He was controversially omitted from the second Test even when captain Graham Gooch went down ill just before the start of that game . |
| 19 | Anne Seaton taught at a SKFA ‘ associated movement ’ course in Glasgow in February and at a WLHB charity rally in Ayr in March ( specification — tow identical half-hour sessions , each for 100 people , using balls and clubs ) ; Anne was also invited for the second year to help judge a heat in the Movement and Recreative Dance section of SKFA 's Open National Championship . |
| 20 | He was also charged with a second offence of running a business in a condition which exposed food to the risk of contamination . |
| 21 | David was also approached by a second man but was not assaulted . |
| 22 | It was removed to the present site in 1928 , but was originally built in the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 23 | This time , our pattern will be displayed with all that was originally designed in the second colour , transcribed to black on the screen . |
| 24 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 25 | It all seemed important at the time , but notwithstanding the subterranean implications , Five Easy Pieces established Nicholson beyond doubt as the most effective actor of his kind around , and he was immediately rewarded with a second nomination for an Oscar ; he did not win it but his very inclusion meant two in a row for a relative unknown , a situation unheard of in recent Hollywood history . |
| 26 | I 'd promised myself then and there : I was n't going for a second appointment . |
| 27 | By 1979 energy consumption was almost back to the 1973 level but this trend was abruptly curtailed by the second oil shock which contributed to the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War . |
| 28 | In 1989 the economy was adversely affected by a second year of drought as well as a plague of locusts , resulting in a much-reduced grain harvest and increased food imports ; unemployment rose and foreign investment fell . |
| 29 | In the bottom half of the draw Chris Wilkinson was again preparing for a second challenge to Jeremy Bates ' domination as he overcame strong challenges from Italy , South Africa and Sweden to reach his second final . |
| 30 | One of the finest churches was that dedicated to the Saviour at Nereditski , 1198 , which was completely destroyed in the Second World War . |